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<p>[QUOTE="7Jags, post: 8511197, member: 78719"]Ah, Happy Labor Day to You and ALL Sir!</p><p>If you chose to read carefully I did explain. In fact many times the services operate as profit-motivated and they are a business which I do not begrudge them. My point was to alert potential consumers; BTW they do provide a service though certainly are fallible (and I did not suggest that this was necessarily a problem or error even if mild conflict of interest might be involved) and there are certain series where they do come up lacking and I have discussed these to some extent previously but not as a part of this thread. You have no idea of my background or expertise as an observer, collector or cataloguer and I do not care to lay it out for you - suffice it to say it is plenty and I will leave it at that.</p><p>I do not own a TPG so can not make up my own slabs, otherwise I probably would. Do note that I have no problems in bringing discoveries or interests to light as I am sure you have seen and more or less publishing findings including grades, etc. naturally follows. The TPGs are fine as far as they go and they are what they are, and we could all have a RAH RAH session on them (perhaps in another post). Maybe we just don't all have to accept them as gospel and my overall argument is that we should keep that in mind</p><p>As you may have surmised, tomorrow is not promised and as I have a collection that will be passed on, some coins have been slabbed. In addition, as to a point already poised, I will likely be selling a couple of them on, and so while I may not see inherent value for ME in it, others do place value on grades - by implication that may include you, kind Sir.</p><p>You may choose to read a bit more carefully on this and other occasions as you seem to have missed what I was saying and will note that I did not complain but rather took them up on the offer as in all likelihood that amount and more would be made up in resale in this instance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="7Jags, post: 8511197, member: 78719"]Ah, Happy Labor Day to You and ALL Sir! If you chose to read carefully I did explain. In fact many times the services operate as profit-motivated and they are a business which I do not begrudge them. My point was to alert potential consumers; BTW they do provide a service though certainly are fallible (and I did not suggest that this was necessarily a problem or error even if mild conflict of interest might be involved) and there are certain series where they do come up lacking and I have discussed these to some extent previously but not as a part of this thread. You have no idea of my background or expertise as an observer, collector or cataloguer and I do not care to lay it out for you - suffice it to say it is plenty and I will leave it at that. I do not own a TPG so can not make up my own slabs, otherwise I probably would. Do note that I have no problems in bringing discoveries or interests to light as I am sure you have seen and more or less publishing findings including grades, etc. naturally follows. The TPGs are fine as far as they go and they are what they are, and we could all have a RAH RAH session on them (perhaps in another post). Maybe we just don't all have to accept them as gospel and my overall argument is that we should keep that in mind As you may have surmised, tomorrow is not promised and as I have a collection that will be passed on, some coins have been slabbed. In addition, as to a point already poised, I will likely be selling a couple of them on, and so while I may not see inherent value for ME in it, others do place value on grades - by implication that may include you, kind Sir. You may choose to read a bit more carefully on this and other occasions as you seem to have missed what I was saying and will note that I did not complain but rather took them up on the offer as in all likelihood that amount and more would be made up in resale in this instance.[/QUOTE]
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