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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2624657, member: 112&quot;]I first started posting about all of this, right here on this forum, over 10 years ago. And I have been posting about it ever since. All of the TPGs, not just PCGS, all of them, changed (loosened) their grading standards in 2004. And in the years since then they have loosened them a couple more times. Until now, today, TPG grading across the board is a joke ! </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course for the first 7 or 8 of the last ten years pretty much everybody else on this forum told me I was crazy and didn&#039;t know what I was talking about. Some of the most heated and long lasting debates there has ever been on this forum were on that very subject. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the past few years however things have been changing. More and more people have realized that they can no longer deny that the TPGs have repeatedly loosened their grading standards. And today, well hardly anybody denies it anymore. Today we even have the TPGs themselves accusing each other of loosening their grading standards. </p><p><br /></p><p>So what&#039;s gonna happen ? Probably the same thing I predicted would happen quite a few years ago - the TPGs are gonna revert, they are going to do the same thing they did in 1986 when they started. They are going to tighten grading standards back to what they were back then. In 1986 a coin that was graded MS65 became an MS63 literally overnight. I believe that&#039;s going to happen again just like I said it would. </p><p><br /></p><p>And of course the coin market will go along with it, and the TPGs will sit and rub their little hands together with joy. For they will then be able to collect all those grading fees for everybody having to have all their coins graded all over again, based on the &quot;new&quot; and stricter grading standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a guy didn&#039;t know better he could swear they had it planned all along. But nahhhhhh - they&#039;d never do that, would they ?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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