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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Breakdown, post: 683104, member: 19532&quot;][ </p><p><i>Breakdown: I do think CAC, probably unintentionally, creates a dilemma for dealers, including many top ones of integrity. If a dealer is offering a high priced coin, and the buyer says he will buy it if the dealer can get it a CAC sticker first, it puts the dealer in a difficult position.</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t agree that dealers should feel obligated to get another party&#039;s opinion (CAC or even a TPG) before he/she sells a coin. Sure the dealer may lose the sell, but again, I take the position that it is up to the buyer to determine whether he/she likes the coin well enough to purchase it, without requiring a dealer to have it holdered or stickered by a TPG or a FPG (Fourth Party Grader like CAC). Presumably, the potential buyer is holding the coin, hopefully looking at it carefully and closely under decent light, and that buyer should be the final judge of whether that coin is for him/her, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now of course there are new collectors who need help, so they should choose someone they trust to help teach them, as well as study on their own. But how will they really learn to grade for themselves if they continually rely on others&#039; opinions, including TPGs and CAC to purchase a coin. Sadly, from what I read here and on other forums, perhaps maybe this is where the coin business is going - maybe eventually collectors won&#039;t feel the need to learn to grade because they will simply only buy holdered coins based on everyone elses&#039; opinions.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I personally do not guarantee that any of my raw coins will grade a certain number by a TPG, nor do I know many dealers that do either (however, I and most dealers I know do guarantee authenticity of their coins). As I mentioned earlier, a TPG is just another human giving his/her opinion on the quality of a coin. Even if that human does grading for a living, whatever manner he/she was taught or learned to grade probably differs from the way another TPG grader, or you, or me learned - which equals subjectivity, which also equals disparity and disagreement in grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Charmy, I am not saying that the dealer should feel obligated to get a coin graded or stickered by CAC, I am only pointing out that there are some buyers that are going to put the dealer in that situation.&nbsp; We of course should all learn to grade as well as possible (I learn a little more all the time) but I also believe a collector/buyer that doesn&#039;t recognize his or her limitations with respect to grading is set up to make bad decisions in buying coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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