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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 22091102, member: 13650&quot;]Submitting is work and it&#039;s expensive.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done it many times.&nbsp; From filling out the online forms, making sure you didn&#039;t miss any boxes, printing the 5 sheets, figuring out which sheets go and which is yours.&nbsp;&nbsp; Getting them in 2x2 slips and labeling each one.&nbsp; Packaging.&nbsp; Finding the right shipping address.&nbsp;&nbsp; (USPS = PO Box address, FedEx/UPS = a different ship address), then sweat it out for the 2 to 3 days for them to receive your box.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; Once it&#039;s received you can use your tracking # on the website to make sure they have it.&nbsp; Once they accept it, it does NOT mean they&#039;re actually opening it!</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It will sit there in line for a while.&nbsp; Could be days, could be weeks depending on the back log.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Eventually they open it up, enter your coins in and charge your card.&nbsp; The actual grading might happen a week or two later.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it sits in finalizing for a while.&nbsp;&nbsp; Eventually you&#039;ll be able to see what your grades are online.&nbsp;&nbsp; Its a costly process that lasts about a month.&nbsp;&nbsp; Turn around times are &quot;only&quot; 20 days at the moment which is better than the 57 days it was in 2021 when the Morgans were dropping.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t even address if you end up getting details grades on half your stuff and the disappointment that comes along with that.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;d say I have about a 75% success rate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Its amusing that if you ever go to sell or trade a scarcer (think rare coppers) graded, cleaned coin, the dealers often scoff at it or they say, &quot;I can&#039;t sell that&quot; trying to get it cheap.&nbsp; Then I look at a local dealer&#039;s list of coins for sale and 80% are graded cleaned/details coins that they&#039;re charging full retail for.&nbsp;&nbsp; Likely a cash cow they take advantage of.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It is an education though.&nbsp; When you get a details coins back it forces you to pay more attention to what you missed.&nbsp; You will learn if you want to.&nbsp; Unfortunately once you know, you will pass on almost everything you see because there are so many issues to look for.&nbsp; Almost nothing loose has not been messed with over the years.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Here&#039;s one for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; I submitted this one with another batch just for fun to see what it would get.&nbsp; I was guessing MS-62, maybe even a 63.&nbsp; Strong strike, all the details are there! </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1544203[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Nope!&nbsp;&nbsp; This is an AU Details whizzed coin. You can maybe see the fine lines between the buffaloes legs.&nbsp; Under the loupe you can barely make them out.&nbsp; Whatever they used was really good, just don&#039;t know why it needed to be whizzed.&nbsp; Good learning tool.&nbsp; I kept it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now imagine this coin in an ebay auction with crappy pictures.&nbsp; Are people going to pay AU details price for this as a loose coin?&nbsp; &nbsp; This one was particularly tough to spot although it seems obvious to everyone now with the facts laid out after it&#039;s all said and done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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