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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1967196, member: 15929&quot;]Say no more.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/Statistics/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/Statistics/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/Statistics/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS Crossover Statistics are a matter of public record and 37% just doesn&#039;t seem all that high to produce a &quot;conflict of interest&quot; argument.</p><p><br /></p><p>I too perceived this &quot;surcharge&quot; as a more or less &quot;paying the piper&quot; or a &quot;Grades for Sale&quot; type of scenario but then, I have no idea what process the &quot;reconsideration&quot; service involves. I also have no idea whom PCGS might &quot;insure&quot; with or what the premiums are for insuring their &quot;opinions&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Warranty claims amounted to $498,864 over the past 12 months. That&#039;s a fairly hefty &quot;conflict of interest&quot; loss if you&#039;re actually going to play that card and lets not forget, this is their business and they are in it to make money. Regardless of how their grades and slabs are perceived, if they were not making money, they simply would not be around.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whine all you want, its a free country but the facts speak for themselves and I simply do not see any overall conspiracy theory involved with PCGS&#039;s published practices. I may not agree with their &quot;opinions&quot; but then I am not financially &quot;responsible&quot; for my opinions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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