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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 946314, member: 15309&quot;]Fine,&nbsp; Then 72% of the coins that the hypothetical dealer has marked as BU will come back from the TPG as BU.&nbsp; The others will be AU/problem coins since that % seems to satisfy your level of fairness.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your examples are incredibly bad.&nbsp; I am stunned that you would use the airline industry to prove your point.&nbsp; So you purchase a ticket for a direct flight from Phila to Las Vegas and pay extra to avoid the connecting flight.&nbsp; Two days prior to your departure, you get an e-mail telling you that your direct flight has been cancelled and that you must land in Pheonix and catch a connecting flight to Vegas.&nbsp; You get to Pheonix and are delayed 6 hours due to mechanical problems.&nbsp; When you go to the desk to complain, they asked if your flight to Vegas is a connecting flight.&nbsp; You answer no, Vegas is my final destination.&nbsp; The respond by telling you that they can&#039;t speak with you right now because 95% of the people on the flight have a connecting flight which needs to be addressed and those people have priority.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Or maybe you are returning from the Virgin Islands and you get to the airport and find that they simply cancelled your flight all together.&nbsp; Yes, these are both true stories.&nbsp; I have a major problem about every 5th flight I take.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see the airline industry coming to a screeching halt.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How many people died this year because they were given the wrong dosage/wrong medicine in the hospital?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is my take on the hypothetical situation that Doug mentioned.&nbsp; Discerning the difference between AU and BU can be tricky.&nbsp; Unless you have proof that the dealer knew the coin was AU and sold it as BU, you would not have a valid complaint.&nbsp; Otherwise, the BU grade is simply his opinion of the grade.&nbsp; Every dealer I know uses the disclaimer that their grade is an opinion only and will not guarantee that their grade will match that of a TPG.&nbsp; It is the responsibility of the collector to assess the accuracy of the opinion offered by the coin dealer.&nbsp; If they are unable to do so, then they should not be buying raw coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am so tired of everyone in the world blaming others for their mistakes.&nbsp; Caveat Emptor should rule the business world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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