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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1894695, member: 11854&quot;]I don&#039;t know that your standards are any more strict than the TPGs, but where you draw the line (no pun intended) for various characteristics is no doubt different than where each TPG draws its line.&nbsp; This is consistent with anyone else who has studied grading and surfaces extensively and should be expected.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your ebay seller analogy, however, is off base.&nbsp; A deceptive ebay seller only makes money <i>if there is a sale, </i> which means that they will engage in practices to hide problems and encourage sales.&nbsp; The TPGs, though, make money <i>regardless </i> of whether or not the coin goes into a details slab or a problem free slab.&nbsp; In fact, it could easily be argued that the TPGs lose money on the grading guarantee portion of their service, but this is the cost of correcting a mistake in performance or quality control and they do what they can to make their products better.&nbsp; These are night and day and I am quite surprised that you do not see the difference in strategy and goal.</p><p><br /></p><p>The graders at the TPGs grade according to the proprietary grading standards of the respective TPG and what the view as too much of an issue for a problem free holder may be very different than what we view.&nbsp; They, of course, can also make errors and let coins through that in no way should have been certified as problem free.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you would like a detailed analysis of each coin then you may want to suggest that to the TPGs, but since you, me and many others do not rely entirely on the TPGs then this service is likely redundant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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