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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 324393, member: 4626&quot;]Um, and we don&#039;t have that now?&nbsp; Any two grading compaines may not necessarily agree on the grade for the same coin. Any 2 graders working for the same company might not.&nbsp; And anybody can put a coin in a piece of plastic and put whatever grade they want on it, and who&#039;s to say it&#039;s wrong, it&#039;s just one person&#039;s opinion anyway.&nbsp; All that&#039;s happened is people are relying on somebody else&#039;s supposedly expert opinions instead of learning how to spot good and bad coins themselves.&nbsp; The hobby was alive and well before the TPGs came along... sure there were crooks out there, but there still is... and the defense is to become an educated buyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The solution to the problems you mentioned before the existance of TPGs isn&#039;t TPGs, it&#039;s education.&nbsp; If dealers sell overgraded, docted, altered, and messed with coins, learn to spot them, and don&#039;t buy them.&nbsp; The TPGs came along and the same problems still exist, so what did they solve precisely?&nbsp; Other than bring along another thing for collectors and dealers to have to waste money on?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have eyes, and I can read books, and can access online resources, and can learn enough about coins to see if the coin in front of me is worth buying or not.&nbsp; If I think the person selling it is asking too much for what I think it&#039;s worth, I just won&#039;t buy it.&nbsp; If I don&#039;t trust my own opinion, I can get the opinions of others for free (hear of the internet perhaps?).&nbsp; There&#039;s nothing I need a TPG to do for me that&#039;s worth paying for.&nbsp; If the internet came into exitance before 1986 TPGs might not even exist today, because there wouldn&#039;t be a need for them; the information you needed could be easily accessed for free or next to it.&nbsp; Well guess what, it exists now, the information is out there, easy to get access to, and there&#039;s not a thing any TPG can do for me that I can&#039;t do for myself for free.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin collecting has been around for centuries before TPGs even existed, and it can survive for centuries without them just fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Screw the TPGs, who needs them?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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