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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 947104, member: 66&quot;]Did the homeowner INSPECT the job before he signed off/paid off on it?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You would not WANT to try and eat the food shown in the commercials or ads.&nbsp; They are made to LOOK good.&nbsp; In reality they are usually inedible.&nbsp; As to the taco with &quot;twice as much meat&quot; or the &quot;inch thick steak&quot;&nbsp; typically they are shown in such a way that you can not accurately determine scale.&nbsp; Taco shell/ hamberger buns are smaller than the ones they actually&nbsp; use so it looks like there is a lot more meat.&nbsp; Steaks are placed on a smaller size plate and cut thicker so they weight the same as what you would be getting.&nbsp; They show the right amount of product, but it LOOKS much larger.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the AU/BU question if it is judgment call as to whether the coin is AU or BU, you will find that the TPG graders also only have a 72% &quot;accuracy&quot; rate.&nbsp; So just because it comes back as AU that doesn&#039;t mean that if you sent it in again it wouldn&#039;t come back the next time as BU. (PCGS World Series of Grading.&nbsp; When faced with a blind test grading PCGS graded coins that did not have the grades on the labels the TPG graders did better than the general collectors but not by much and they only agreed with the PCGS grade 75% of the time.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actual rates are 1,200 coins per 8 hr day or 24 seconds per coin, three coins per minute, minute after minute after minute after minute.......</p><p><br /></p><p>24 seconds sounds like a lot for a pro, but grading isn&#039;t the only thing he has to do in that 24 seconds.&nbsp; Get the coin out of the box, scan the flip, remove the coin from the flip (no fingerprints please), grade the coin, put the coin back in the flip, type the grade into the computer, put the coin in the finished box.&nbsp; That is seven operations in 24 seconds.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you stay with it you and become serious you will find that it is better to HAVE the books.&nbsp; Something you discover about serious collectors and dealers, we have LIBRARIES, and we use them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Only since about three years ago.&nbsp; Before that they had NO written guarantee of authenticity.&nbsp; (They finally added the authenticity guarantee after after years of nagging by some posters online.)&nbsp; The only guarantee they had was that they would stand behind their grading opinion and compensate someone if they changed their mind.&nbsp; Oh and even the current guarantee does not apply to the original submitter.&nbsp; (Per Ron Guth in personal discussion while he was still President of PCGS.)&nbsp; And if you are compensated, THEY decide what the Fair Market Value is, and don&#039;t be folled into thinking it will be what they show in their price guides.&nbsp; And at NGC it is a take it or leave it proposition.&nbsp; It you don&#039;t accept what they offer you are in danger of having the problem &quot;written off&quot; and you get no compensation.&nbsp; &quot;We offered, he declined, end of story.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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