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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 7774245, member: 24091&quot;]There isn&#039;t enough prestige associated with ANACS for a registry-set app to work, --in other words, I don&#039;t think you could get Dell Loy Hansen to buy-in to the arrangement or others like him.&nbsp; That&#039;s not to say I don&#039;t like ANACS, though aside from a dozen or so little white holders I do not have any ANACS slabs in my collection.&nbsp; Much like ICG and their &quot;innovative&quot; holder with dips on the side of slabs (so it can be grabbed like a steering wheel??) --the ANACS holder with curved arching lines and sloped top for viewing the label has been a failure in my opinion.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think anyone wants innovation in slab design as a central criteria for selecting a grading service.&nbsp; The number one consideration has always been acceptance in the market-place, and though there have been literally hundreds of gradings services that have tried, none have come close to becoming as widely accepted as NGC and PCGS.&nbsp; While there is a certain amount of inertia that has helped continue this arrangement, like all organized systems, entropy eventually erodes the very foundations that made them great to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>It began with the proliferation of different slab labels, was greatly accelerated by additional grades with a +, and even the adoption of the 70 grade can be seen as an abdication of their founding principles made in search of revenue.&nbsp; Once organizational decay has begun, it is very difficult to reverse.&nbsp; For example, take a look at IBM these days.&nbsp; Once the greatest corporation the world had ever seen, now days they can&#039;t even get their own internal email servers to work:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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