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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1577871, member: 4626&quot;]I fully understand what the TPGs actually do; I just disagree that they <i>should</i> be doing it.&nbsp; A company that claims they sell a grading service should be doing precisely that, no more, no less.&nbsp; As for how many &quot;bodybagged&quot; coins have I sold?&nbsp; 0.&nbsp; None of the coins I&#039;ve ever submitted (to date, 1; soon will be submitting 10 more) have been bodybagged, and haven&#039;t sold any that I&#039;ve graded.&nbsp; I fully understand how the coin game works as per TPGs; I just simply don&#039;t agree that it <i>should</i> work that way.&nbsp; But ultimately that&#039;s just my own opinion and I can&#039;t convince anyone determined not to be convinced, so guess we&#039;ll just have to agree to disagree.&nbsp; I almost never sell my coins anyway so ultimately the only opinion that matters about a coin I own (or want to own) is my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>I fully believe that it&#039;s the responsibility of willing buyers and willing sellers to determine the value of a given coin; not the TPGs; as a allegedly disinterested third party they should only be giving opinions on the authenticity and technical grade of the coin.&nbsp; Yes, I know that&#039;s not the way it really works, but I firmly believe that&#039;s the way it should work.&nbsp; The fact that it doesn&#039;t work that way is a large part of why I have little respect for TPGs.</p><p><br /></p><p>(In the interest of full disclosure, the few coins I&#039;ve ever sold were almost entirely raw coins that usually went for about their silver value.&nbsp; Generally these were what I considered &quot;surplus,&quot; and almost all of the proceeds went back into buying more coins.&nbsp; I buy my coins because I like to collect them and don&#039;t care what they are worth except in the sense I want to get good value for my money when I BUY them.&nbsp; What they could potentially sell for is the problem of whoever inherits them after I die lol...)</p><p><br /></p><p>OK I promise to try to restrain myself from ranting about TPGs for a little while at least lol... I believe I made my position clear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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