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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 16539207, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;ve posted this many times but it seems to be never often enough. The crack out/cross over game is specifically and quite intentionally designed by the TPGs to benefit the TPGs - not the coin owners.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are and always have been coins in ANACS, ICG, NGC, PCGS slabs that not only cross over but sometimes upgrade in one of the other slabs. And it doesn&#039;t matter which is which, it happens with all of them. The hard part is being able to identify which coins will cross and/or upgrade, and do so consistently.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a general rule, collectors can&#039;t do that, but there are people who can, and there are quite a few of them. These people get paid high salaries $100k-$300k a year just to do that and nothing else. All they do is travel the country and visit auctions, coin shows, and dealer shops searching out and identifying these coins. Once they find one they buy it, send it or give it to their employer who then cracks it out, sends it in and gets it crossed or upgraded. </p><p><br /></p><p>They manage to do this because of their superior knowledge and skill at being able to identify these coins. And, because they know what coins which TPG has tougher grading standards on than other TPGs. On some series PCGS is tougher, on others NGC is, and on still others ANACS or ICG may be. And they know the market, they know which coins will bring the highest prices at any given time. They know all this. </p><p><br /></p><p>What this means for collectors is that with just about all the coins out there, one or more of these specialized buyers has already looked at the coins, and bought the ones they want to buy. And with the coins that are left, there is little to no chance that the coins are going to cross and/or upgrade. So collectors can try to play the game with them, and sometimes they may get lucky and run across a coin that got missed, or hasn&#039;t been on the market in a long time. But the odds are strongly against that happening. But because there is a chance, the collectors play the game anyway. And of course, coin dealers play the same game as well, and whole lot more often !</p><p><br /></p><p>Between these three things, the collectors, the specialized buyers, and the dealers, that&#039;s what keeps the money rolling in for the TPGs. The TPGs know this, and that&#039;s why they don&#039;t change their ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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