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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 322871, member: 4626&quot;]The military&#039;s the only thing I can think of (and only because having national defense not controlled by an elected government would be at the very least impractical... having the military answer to a civilian government is how we prevent a military-run dictatorship.)&nbsp; If you want to improve anything, get the government OUT of it, not INTO it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>TPGs sell opinions, and opinions are by definiton subjective, I don&#039;t see how setting any consistent standards would help any, because they&#039;re not universally agreed upon, not even by indivdual graders within the same company.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bias is impossible to eliminate from grading.&nbsp; Opinons are by defnition biased by the person giving them, and any grade is an opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say any company that has a financial interest in grading fails the definition of being a <i>Third Party</i> Grader anyway.&nbsp; I think existing laws against false advertising could work against any self slabber; all you&#039;d need to do is establish a legal definition of &quot;Third Party Grader&quot; and sue any that called themself one without meeting thar definition for false advertising.&nbsp; Or skip the legal route and just let negative word of mouth take care of it, as people vote against such companies with their wallet.&nbsp; Feel free to expose them with education to the novice collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for grading standards, let the market decide, as it does now, which companies give the best and most reliable grading opinions.&nbsp; If a grading company in the minds of people at large consistently overgrades or undergrades, people will vote with their wallet an not submit coins to them or buy their slabs.&nbsp; If a grading company establishes a reputation for accuracy or at least gives opinions generally conistent with the hobby at large, they will get more business.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see that there&#039;s anything to be fixed.&nbsp; Expecting standarization of grading is unrealistic, since grading is an opinion, and opinions are by definiton, subjective.&nbsp; Any given coin does not have a &quot;right&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot; grade.&nbsp; Look at any thread here when people post a coin and ask for a grade and look how many different opinions you get, even amongst just the people that post here.&nbsp; How do you expect the entire hobby to agree on a single grade for a single coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep government out, expose self slabbers for who they are, let the free market take care of the rest.&nbsp; No need for a cure that would be worse than the disease.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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