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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2310503, member: 112"]The answer is fairly obvious, or certainly should be anyway. Once a coin leaves the grading room only low level employees ever see the coin. They print labels, slab the coin, package and ship it out. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your comment implies that practice should be changed. That someone who "knows" would have to view the coin after it was slabbed, and before packaging and shipping. But here is the problem with that solution. That someone who "knows", would have to know it all, else they would not even be capable of catching the mistakes. But do you have any idea how few people like that are in number ? Or how much they get paid ? </p><p><br /></p><p>That is the real problem, and not one so easily solved. Could it be done ? Yes, of course. But it would add a significant cost to the customers because the company sure isn't going to eat that cost. And it would also add significant time to the grading process which can already take up to 3 months during peak periods. This is why it is the way it is. Because it is cheaper to pay for the mistakes than it is to prevent them from happening.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2310503, member: 112"]The answer is fairly obvious, or certainly should be anyway. Once a coin leaves the grading room only low level employees ever see the coin. They print labels, slab the coin, package and ship it out. Your comment implies that practice should be changed. That someone who "knows" would have to view the coin after it was slabbed, and before packaging and shipping. But here is the problem with that solution. That someone who "knows", would have to know it all, else they would not even be capable of catching the mistakes. But do you have any idea how few people like that are in number ? Or how much they get paid ? That is the real problem, and not one so easily solved. Could it be done ? Yes, of course. But it would add a significant cost to the customers because the company sure isn't going to eat that cost. And it would also add significant time to the grading process which can already take up to 3 months during peak periods. This is why it is the way it is. Because it is cheaper to pay for the mistakes than it is to prevent them from happening.[/QUOTE]
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