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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 958561, member: 112&quot;]What other possible reason could they have ? </p><p><br /></p><p>If as you say grade-flation only occurs as the result of a mistake due to resubmissions - then they are making one heck of a lot of mistakes. Way more mistakes than you give them credit for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about it - in order for the term grade-flation to even exist there has to be a lot of mistakes - a whole lot. And it&#039;s not something new. The term grade-flation has been around since at least the &#039;90s. And for every coin that is upgraded or downgraded - a mistake was made. It was either made with the original grade or made with the second grade. Either way you want to look at it - one of those was a mistake. And sometimes they make a mistake on the same coin 3 and 4 times.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I remember correctly, I seem to recall you estimating that the TPGs were probably right about 80-85% of the time. Let&#039;s go with the low number just for the sake of discussion. That would mean that NGC and PCGS combined have made at least 10 million mistakes. Yeah - 10 million. That&#039;s a lot of misgraded coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that doesn&#039;t take into account any changes of standards - that&#039;s just the normal everyday mistakes they have made. And if I am correct and they have changed standards, then you can add another 10 million to that because in the past 4 years, which is when i think they changed standards, they have graded aprrox 10 million more coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would mean there&#039;s 20 million coins out of the 50 million coins out there that they have graded that are graded incorrectly. That&#039;s 40% - mistakes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah I know, those numbers are gonna make you jump right out of your socks. And you&#039;ll scream and shout that there&#039;s no way. Well, I didn&#039;t make the numbers up. You have agreed with those numbers - half of them accounted for with everyday mistakes and half with grade-flation that you admit exist. So the numbers are what they are.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And you haven&#039;t provided any that they haven&#039;t. But what I have done is provide reasons that they did - common sense reasons. There just aint that much coincidence out there my friend to expalin it any other way.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No it doesn&#039;t. It merely shows that there are a lot of people who can&#039;t grade (by your own words)and therefore they choose to believe the TPGs. Just because they are the leading authority Paul that doesn&#039;t make them right. Leading authorities are proven wrong all the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree. Since they are the ones who have to agree that they made a mistake and thus have to pay compensation - all they have to do to get out of it is say they didn&#039;t make a mistake. So how much danger can they be in ? There is no court, there is no other ruling body to make the decision. They themselves are the single solitary ones who get to decide. It doesn&#039;t get much better than that ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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