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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 8472956, member: 26302"]I am not sure about "laziness" sir. Did you pay some sort of premium for "numismatic research" or did you ask for a graded slab? Sorry, but a standard grading fee I do not think would cover hours of research and speculation amongst most likely a few employees at NGC. If not, why should they spend that money when the fee they charged you was for a standard service, which might take 3 employees 5 minutes each, and then printing of insert, slabbing, and processing for mailing it back to you. </p><p><br /></p><p>Its simply economics IMHO rather than "laziness". They pay their people by the hour, (effectively, whether on salary or not), and have X expected input per submission. They simply cannot afford hours and hours of uncompensated research. They authenticated, graded, and slabbed it for you, which is what you paid for. Anything further I think you should have done the research for them so they could either verify or disagree with, or you should have called and requested and paid for extra services. Just my opinion as a businessman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 8472956, member: 26302"]I am not sure about "laziness" sir. Did you pay some sort of premium for "numismatic research" or did you ask for a graded slab? Sorry, but a standard grading fee I do not think would cover hours of research and speculation amongst most likely a few employees at NGC. If not, why should they spend that money when the fee they charged you was for a standard service, which might take 3 employees 5 minutes each, and then printing of insert, slabbing, and processing for mailing it back to you. Its simply economics IMHO rather than "laziness". They pay their people by the hour, (effectively, whether on salary or not), and have X expected input per submission. They simply cannot afford hours and hours of uncompensated research. They authenticated, graded, and slabbed it for you, which is what you paid for. Anything further I think you should have done the research for them so they could either verify or disagree with, or you should have called and requested and paid for extra services. Just my opinion as a businessman.[/QUOTE]
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