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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1208920, member: 26302&quot;]One thing I think should be said is the good that TPG has done. I like others like to talk about the &quot;good old days&quot; but in reality the old days were not so good. You had people left and right getting sold vastly overgraded, cleaned, damaged coins at red book prices. The simple fact of the matter is most people do not choose to get as involved in their coin collections as others. They wish to buy coins, to own them, but not work at their grading and authentication skills. This is the group who has been scammed by non-reputable dealers for years, and when those stories came out repeatedly gave the hobby black eyes. In this regard I like slabs, since I feel fairly comfortable telling my uncle who wants a nice coin that if he buys one in a PCGS or NGC slab he should be assured its a nice, authentic, collectible coin, not some horror story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, having been nice about slabbing, (I know, a shocker), the complaints about grade inflation, market grading, TPG telling us they would never slab modern coins and then doing exactly that, and certain issues having problems overlooked are all still fair. My dislike of slabbing is that it enables to have huge price differences for tiny little grade differences, but that is a function of collectors, not the slabbing companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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