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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3560881, member: 56859"]Heritage may do some things right but they do some <i>big</i> things wrong. Without rehashing why I dislike slabs, here's a major problem with slabs: images. It's hard to take good pictures through plastic. That's not my main problem with HA though-- it's having to click so many times just to see one coin! Don't they realize how many thousands of coins come to auction and stores every month and how time-consuming it is to look at all of them?</p><p><br /></p><p>The primary reason I don't browse HA is that I don't have time to click on each listing, and then click on each side of the coin, then fiddle with the enlargements. Plus, it is extremely annoying to see the reverse at whatever degree of rotation it appears in the slab. They square up the image using the slab, not the coin's orientation. Bah.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to correct what I said about Heritage's images: they do crop and rotate the coins, but you still have to hover, click, click, and fiddle to see the coins. Joined obverse and reverse images are preferred. I was thinking of a different slab-happy auctioneer when I wrote about the lack of correct reverse orientation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3560881, member: 56859"]Heritage may do some things right but they do some [I]big[/I] things wrong. Without rehashing why I dislike slabs, here's a major problem with slabs: images. It's hard to take good pictures through plastic. That's not my main problem with HA though-- it's having to click so many times just to see one coin! Don't they realize how many thousands of coins come to auction and stores every month and how time-consuming it is to look at all of them? The primary reason I don't browse HA is that I don't have time to click on each listing, and then click on each side of the coin, then fiddle with the enlargements. Plus, it is extremely annoying to see the reverse at whatever degree of rotation it appears in the slab. They square up the image using the slab, not the coin's orientation. Bah. Edited to correct what I said about Heritage's images: they do crop and rotate the coins, but you still have to hover, click, click, and fiddle to see the coins. Joined obverse and reverse images are preferred. I was thinking of a different slab-happy auctioneer when I wrote about the lack of correct reverse orientation.[/QUOTE]
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