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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3210591, member: 112"]I can't speak for them but I should think what buy the coin and not the slab means is rather obvious. It means that you ignore whatever the plastic slab says and buy the coin based on your own opinion of it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is few people do that. Instead, they ignore their own opinions and what they see with their own eyes, and blindly place their faith the opinion of the TPG - even when the TPG's opinion contradicts their own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now some will say that one has to trust the TPG because they know more than we do. And for a lot of folks that's probably true. But even when it is true, it's still not a good idea because one has to realize, and acknowledge, that the TPG has an agenda for doing what they do, for assigning the grades and comments they do. And that agenda is never, ever, intended to serve anyone, or benefit anyone, except the TPG !</p><p><br /></p><p>And any time you blindly trust the opinion of someone who has a self-serving agenda - it's pretty hard to say that it's not a mistake to do so ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3210591, member: 112"]I can't speak for them but I should think what buy the coin and not the slab means is rather obvious. It means that you ignore whatever the plastic slab says and buy the coin based on your own opinion of it. The problem is few people do that. Instead, they ignore their own opinions and what they see with their own eyes, and blindly place their faith the opinion of the TPG - even when the TPG's opinion contradicts their own. Now some will say that one has to trust the TPG because they know more than we do. And for a lot of folks that's probably true. But even when it is true, it's still not a good idea because one has to realize, and acknowledge, that the TPG has an agenda for doing what they do, for assigning the grades and comments they do. And that agenda is never, ever, intended to serve anyone, or benefit anyone, except the TPG ! And any time you blindly trust the opinion of someone who has a self-serving agenda - it's pretty hard to say that it's not a mistake to do so ![/QUOTE]
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