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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 324057, member: 4626&quot;]Here&#039;s a crazy idea... eliminate TPGs all together.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying ban and dismantle their services, but vote with your wallet and just start boycotting slabbled coins and grading services.&nbsp; If companies can&#039;t get money selling their so-called &quot;professional&quot; opinions they will go out of business or be forced to find a product or service actually worth selling.&nbsp; Just use your own judgement about whether or not a coin is worth your money and quit relying on the opinions of others.&nbsp; Educate yourself in grading.&nbsp; Use your own subjectivity to decide if a coin is in the condition you want and worth what a seller is asking.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m game if you are.&nbsp; I already don&#039;t buy any slabbed coins, period, and I don&#039;t submit any coins to be graded.&nbsp; If the hobby as a whole starts doing this, self-slabbers and fly by night companies, overgraders, will all go away as there&#039;s no money in it.&nbsp; If any TPGs survive it will only be the ones that have a solid reputation as being reliable.&nbsp; Or they&#039;ll go away too if they see there&#039;s no money in it.&nbsp; Either way, a win-win.</p><p><br /></p><p>People have been collecting coins long before TPGs existed.&nbsp; I say they&#039;re totally unnecessary to the hobby.&nbsp; Seriously, why do we need them?&nbsp; Maybe have companies that only authenticate coins and not grade them... that&#039;s the only service they provide that I see as necessary.&nbsp; Obsessing about minute differences in grade is why the pricing gets rediculous in the first place.&nbsp; Let the hobby police itself and make its own opinions on what a coin is worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone with me?&nbsp; I can&#039;t be the only person who thinks this way, even here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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