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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 5179076, member: 24314"]<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">Lehigh96, posted:</span> "<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">The word "gimmick</span>" [a SLANG TERM for an ingenious or novel idea used to promote sales] <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">is usually used in a negative connotation to mean a trick, con, grift, ruse etc. There is no doubt that the coin registry idea is a stroke of genius and benefited NGC & PCGS greatly, but to characterize it as a gimmick designed to fleece collectors is mean spirited and petty.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">I posted that the Registry was: "...<b>one of the best marketing ploys ever devised and on par with plastic slabs and photo services!</b></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">Lehigh96, posted: "Yeah, but without use of the quote function, we have no idea what you are calling false, only that you are trolling."</span></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Trolling? Someone is <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> or <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I am posting <b>EXACTLY</b> as the member you mentioned has posted in the past. I learned this technique from him: If a member posts something you disagree with, all that is necessary to do is to post "false" right below their comment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 5179076, member: 24314"][COLOR=rgb(102, 0, 102)]Lehigh96, posted:[/COLOR] "[COLOR=rgb(102, 0, 102)]The word "gimmick[/COLOR]" [a SLANG TERM for an ingenious or novel idea used to promote sales] [COLOR=rgb(102, 0, 102)]is usually used in a negative connotation to mean a trick, con, grift, ruse etc. There is no doubt that the coin registry idea is a stroke of genius and benefited NGC & PCGS greatly, but to characterize it as a gimmick designed to fleece collectors is mean spirited and petty. :rolleyes: [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I posted that the Registry was: "...[B]one of the best marketing ploys ever devised and on par with plastic slabs and photo services![/B][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(102, 0, 102)]Lehigh96, posted: "Yeah, but without use of the quote function, we have no idea what you are calling false, only that you are trolling."[/COLOR] :rolleyes: Trolling? Someone is :confused: or :wacky:. I am posting [B]EXACTLY[/B] as the member you mentioned has posted in the past. I learned this technique from him: If a member posts something you disagree with, all that is necessary to do is to post "false" right below their comment.[/QUOTE]
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