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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 963372, member: 15309&quot;]Well since everyone is rejoicing your hatred for TPG&#039;s, I will cast my vote of dissent in this thread.&nbsp; I understand your reasons and you are welcome to your opinion but I couldn&#039;t disagree more.&nbsp; Do you really think that the TPG&#039;s are the reason collectors don&#039;t learn to grade.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t know how to grade before the TPG&#039;s and they don&#039;t know how to grade now.&nbsp; Even the more advanced collectors who have enough knowledge to be dangerous greatly overestimate their grading skills.&nbsp; You can&#039;t protect every idiot in the world but with very little effort any newbie will learn which TPG&#039;s to trust and which not to.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it does stop dealers from buying at one grade and selling at another.&nbsp; They pay wholesale prices and sell at retail prices.&nbsp; The no longer get to pay BU and sell at GEM BU.&nbsp; I have no interest in returning to the wild west days of numismatics in the pre-TPG days.&nbsp; But don&#039;t let me stop you from reminiscing about what you consider better times.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, as I was reading your post I was holding a $1K coin.&nbsp; Halfway through, my jaw dropped, and so did the coin onto my hardwood floor.&nbsp; Good thing it was slabbed, sealed away, for it&#039;s own protection from me, the elements, and all other forms of mishandling.&nbsp; Comparing a slabbed coin to a photograph is ludicrous, and I guarantee that I worry less about the security of my slabbed coins than you should about the security of your raw ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>This post wasn&#039;t meant to be adversarial, it was only intended to present an opposing opinion to your rather extreme view of the subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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