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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2418092, member: 1892&quot;]You&#039;ve assumed wrong. How many TPG mistakes do you have to see in these pages before you realize that the TPG&#039;s are fallible humans like the rest of us? Yes, over a <b>large average sample</b> you can trust them to be reasonably consistent. I&#039;m not saying they don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing - they very much do - but how would you know if they miss one?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a better grader over the long term than <b>any</b> TPG, and a <i>large plurality of the membership of CT can say the same thing </i>because we have more than a few seconds to study each coin, unlike a TPG grader, and can devote a lot more thought to it. We can create threads here with the coins we&#039;ve graded, and interact with those holding other opinions, and refine our skills in real time based on the input of others. We can <b>grow</b>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Until you learn to grade, you are not a coin collector. You are a <b>slab</b> collector, buying art based on someone else&#039;s opinion of good art instead of your own. Buying good steak with no idea what good steak tastes like. Until you free yourself from dependence on slabs you&#039;ll have no idea what it is we actually enjoy about this hobby. You are selling your satisfaction with numismatics short, surrendering your right to derive pleasure from what you collect. Letting someone else do your thinking for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>And making yourself a victim. Perhaps you haven&#039;t been burned yet, but it&#039;s almost inevitable. You <b>will</b> get burned, unless you&#039;re very lucky, and you won&#039;t know when it happens. Not because the TPG&#039;s are deliberate criminals, but because <i>they&#039;re not perfect</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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