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<p>[QUOTE="Endeavor, post: 3604583, member: 60292"]Thank you for your reply.</p><p><br /></p><p>I feel like the grading system for notes is flawed. If a note has a grade of 50 PPQ and another note has a grade of just 50 (without EPQ/PPQ) then I think the scale should be adjusted to take paper quality into account in the number grade. So when you are shopping for notes you don't have to wonder if a 45 EPQ is better than a 50 or 55. In that case you are judging on two scales instead of one that encompasses everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>It gets really absurd when you see a note graded 65 or 66 without EPQ/PPQ. Those two number values are considered "GEM". How can a note be considered GEM when it's paper quality is not good enough to get the EPQ/PPQ designation??? Meanwhile you see 20 and 25 grades with EPQ/PPQ! LOL, it's absurd!</p><p><br /></p><p>Last point I want to make is that paper quality probably shouldn't also be a yes or no identification. It shouldn't be yes it is EPQ/PPQ or no it isn't. There is probably a wide range of quality to paper. At the very least there are 3 different grades within paper quality: 1. Easy to tell EPQ/PPQ 2. Easy to tell not EPQ/PPQ 3. not easy to tell whether EPQ/PPQ or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Endeavor, post: 3604583, member: 60292"]Thank you for your reply. I feel like the grading system for notes is flawed. If a note has a grade of 50 PPQ and another note has a grade of just 50 (without EPQ/PPQ) then I think the scale should be adjusted to take paper quality into account in the number grade. So when you are shopping for notes you don't have to wonder if a 45 EPQ is better than a 50 or 55. In that case you are judging on two scales instead of one that encompasses everything. It gets really absurd when you see a note graded 65 or 66 without EPQ/PPQ. Those two number values are considered "GEM". How can a note be considered GEM when it's paper quality is not good enough to get the EPQ/PPQ designation??? Meanwhile you see 20 and 25 grades with EPQ/PPQ! LOL, it's absurd! Last point I want to make is that paper quality probably shouldn't also be a yes or no identification. It shouldn't be yes it is EPQ/PPQ or no it isn't. There is probably a wide range of quality to paper. At the very least there are 3 different grades within paper quality: 1. Easy to tell EPQ/PPQ 2. Easy to tell not EPQ/PPQ 3. not easy to tell whether EPQ/PPQ or not.[/QUOTE]
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