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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 31037, member: 1886&quot;]&quot;In my opinion far too many of us THINK we know </p><p>what we are doing when it comes to grading.&quot;---G.D. Prather&nbsp; WINS article.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with that GDJMSP. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; How do any of us know </p><p>that we are correctly grading coins?&nbsp; If you grade a </p><p>slab with the grade covered up and arrive at the same</p><p>number as what is on the slab, it does not mean you </p><p>graded it correctly. You may have assigned too much </p><p>weight to one factor and too little to another for a wash.</p><p>And you will never know that because all your *allowed* to </p><p>see&nbsp; is a single net grade number. Learning to market </p><p>grade? Learning anything is a matter of making mistakes </p><p>and correcting those mistakes.&nbsp; How does one correct a </p><p>mistake if they can never find out if a mistake was made? </p><p><br /></p><p>Net grading is the darling of speculators who don&#039;t want to know </p><p>and don&#039;t want to learn.&nbsp; And since we are now </p><p>told *relentlessly* that the so called bull market is collector</p><p>driven&nbsp; and not speculator driven, then maybe it&#039;s time the&nbsp; </p><p>grading companies stop acting like a bunch of medieval </p><p>alchemists, clutching parchments to their chests, and start </p><p>giving us some real information.&nbsp; Information that we can actually</p><p>learn something from and are actually entitled to have. </p><p>Since information is what we are actually paying them for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, that might not be in their best economic interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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