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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1576558, member: 4626&quot;]Um if graders are trying to assign a value to a coin rather than a grade, they&#039;re not doing what they&#039;re being paid to do.&nbsp; It&#039;s the duty of the market to determine the values; the TPGs are just supposed to be assigning technical grades to the coins and that&#039;s it, period.&nbsp; I highly disagree that TPGs trying to set the market prices for coins is good for the hobby at all.&nbsp; In fact, them trying to assign values instead of grades is one of my biggest gripes with them in the first place.&nbsp; The main reason I attempt to defend ANACS is they still seem to be doing what they&#039;re supposed to be doing, just giving a technical opinion on the grade, and ignoring any trends as to how marketable the coin is.&nbsp; The coin can speak for itself.&nbsp; (Personally I think the grade can speak for itself too, but if you&#039;re going to be paying someone to give a <i>GRADING</i> opinion, that&#039;s what they should be doing, or they&#039;re basically committing fraud by not providing the service for which they are being paid.)</p><p><br /></p><p>TPGs are GRADERS <i>by definition</i>.&nbsp; They are not being paid to market the submitters&#039; coins.&nbsp; They&#039;re not being paid to appraise the submitters&#039; coins.&nbsp; They are being paid to grade them, period, and if they&#039;re basing their grading opinion on anything other than technical standards, they&#039;re effectively defrauding their customers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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