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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3302728, member: 31533"]I am beginning to think that someone does not want to learn, but rather get confirmation he has high grade coins that are valuable. But the person does not have the background to determine grade, and is resistant (to say the least) to learning or accepting what the standards are and trying to apply them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not care if someone thinks their coins are uber-fantastico and worth hundreds of thousands of $$$, even if they only intend to keep them as mementos. But it is bothersome for someone to consistently then proclaim cleaned, scratched, dinged-up coins as mid or high grade mint state coins. Especially after having a lot of effort to be given to 'supposedly' (well, feels that way) assist in the answering the questions. Sort of like someone consistently asking, hey, is the sky green? and someone saying, no, it's blue. And then the person saying well, it's green to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone is not here to actually learn, then so be it. At least I take solice in the fact that likely others who are here to learn have probably read the thread and the comments and even maybe looked at the links and actually learned (processed in a positive way) something about coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 3302728, member: 31533"]I am beginning to think that someone does not want to learn, but rather get confirmation he has high grade coins that are valuable. But the person does not have the background to determine grade, and is resistant (to say the least) to learning or accepting what the standards are and trying to apply them. I do not care if someone thinks their coins are uber-fantastico and worth hundreds of thousands of $$$, even if they only intend to keep them as mementos. But it is bothersome for someone to consistently then proclaim cleaned, scratched, dinged-up coins as mid or high grade mint state coins. Especially after having a lot of effort to be given to 'supposedly' (well, feels that way) assist in the answering the questions. Sort of like someone consistently asking, hey, is the sky green? and someone saying, no, it's blue. And then the person saying well, it's green to me. If someone is not here to actually learn, then so be it. At least I take solice in the fact that likely others who are here to learn have probably read the thread and the comments and even maybe looked at the links and actually learned (processed in a positive way) something about coins.[/QUOTE]
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