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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1286514, member: 112&quot;]This thread is a perfect example of why I was so strongly against NGC and PCGS changing their decades long policy of not slabbing any problem coin. Problem coins should not be in a slab - ever !</p><p><br /></p><p>That slab presents a false sense of security, it leads unknowing and less knowledgeable collectors to over-pay for problem coins. Heck some of them don&#039;t even realize they are problem coins - they just see that all important slab. And that&#039;s the only thing that <b>IS</b> important to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>For years, many years, collectors fussed and fumed and ranted and raved because the coins they themselves could not identify as problem coins were returned to them by NGC and PCGS in body-bags. They claimed they were being treated unfairly. But they weren&#039;t. The problem was theirs to begin with. But instead of blaming themselves for own lack of experience and knowledge in identifying problem coins, they preferred to place the blame on somebody else - the TPG. If you think about it it&#039;s a typical human reaction. Most of us would ALWAYS prefer to blame somebody else for something that was our own fault. It makes life easier. It makes it easier to look in the mirror.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s just like going to a dealer&#039;s shop or looking on ebay, and then buying that coin you want. Then, when you send that coin to the TPG and they send it back to you in a body-bag - why it&#039;s that low life dealer&#039;s/seller&#039;s fault for selling you that piece of crap coin. It&#039;s not your fault - it can&#039;t possibly be my own fault !</p><p><br /></p><p>But it is. It is your own fault for buying it. And it is your own fault for then sending it on to the TPG. YOU made both decisions. You didn&#039;t have to, nobody made you or forced you. You could have walked away from both of them. But because you didn&#039;t have the knowledge, because you didn&#039;t have the experience - you made the mistakes. But it&#039;s always easier to say it&#039;s somebody else&#039;s fault - instead of your own.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now here we are some years later, after the TPGs changed their policies and decided to slab problem coins. Only now we have those very same collectors, that wanted their problem coins slabbed, questioning whether they should be buying those slabbed problem coins. In a few more years it&#039;ll probably be the TPGs fault for putting those coins in slabs to begin with <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>end of rant[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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