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Message:: [QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 958149, member: 15309"]PCGS also claims that you can crossover an NGC coin into a PCGS holder.  If you ask anyone who has ever tried to cross an NGC coin to PCGS you know how difficult it is.  You also know that your chance at a cross increases dramatically if you simply crack the coin from it's NGC holder prior to submission.  Of course the PCGS guys are going to claim publicly that the secure plus service does not always lock in the grade.  But just try to get a plus coin upgraded without cracking it.  Guess what, it ain't gonna happen and I don't care what they say.  Do you really think it is in the PCGS business plan to erode their own consumer confidence by changing grades of coins they have previously graded? We both know that the plus designation was intended to get collectors to resubmit their coins.  Fighting gradeflation is a convenient selling point that the TPG's can use for the service.  However, introducing the plus designation is not proof that the TPG's purposefully loosen their grading standards.  I admit that they are taking steps to increase their resubmission revenues but "pushing the limits" of their grading standards is not one of those steps.  But nice little spin job you did on that one.[/QUOTE]