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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver Striker, post: 155087, member: 1745&quot;]<b><i>In this auction, you are getting 5 coins precision graded for only $49. My normal fee for personally &quot;precision grading&quot; a coin is $15, plus shipping costs both ways.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting, that the seller isn&#039;t using thr BUY-IT-NOW feature,&nbsp; The auction sold fore more...</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I cannot figure out the reason for the $9.95 shipping fee??? </p><p><br /></p><p>He&#039;s most likely mailing the winner a coupon!</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting, that there were 3 different bidders on the auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nextly,</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>WARNING:&nbsp; WE REPORT &quot;OVERGRADED&quot; COINS</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>If you own PCGS, NGC and ANACS graded coins, you have a better chance of owning accurately graded coins than coins certified by other grading services.&nbsp; In fact, the odds are very much in your favor that the coins you own are within a &quot;half-grade&quot; of the official numerical grade printed on the label.&nbsp;&nbsp; Whereas, if you have bought non-PCGS, NGC and ANACS coins, you may be in for a surprise if you submit them to us for precision grading.&nbsp; It is possible that I will tell you (and print on my PCGA grading certificate, which includes my personal signature) that a coin you bought as MS63 to MS67 is, in my professional opinion, actually an AU (About Unc), or worse.&nbsp; So if you own &quot;bargain priced&quot; certified coins, and you&#039;d like to believe that they&#039;re exactly what it says on the holder, I&#039;m probably not the guy to send them to.&nbsp;&nbsp; Back in the 1970&#039;s I published a quarterly report called &quot;Numismatics And The Law,&quot; (written by myself and a law professor) in which I named rare coin dealers who were blatantly overgrading coins and ripping people off.&nbsp; A few of them sued me, but most backed off, and I never lost a lawsuit.&nbsp; At age 59, I&#039;m really not in the mood for lawsuits.&nbsp; However, by the same token, I&#039;m still not afraid to express my honest opinion of what a coin really is so collectors and investors can make educated decisions.&nbsp; To be honest, you&#039;re better off finding out the truth sooner rather than later.&nbsp; The more time you have to correct your mistakes, the better off you will be 10 or 20 years down the road.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose that he&#039;s saying that he REPORTS overgraded coins to YOU the submitter not the grading company.</p><p><br /></p><p>But part of this statement doesn&#039;t make sense since you already have the graded encapsulated coins I am not sure what he means by </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>express my honest opinion of what a coin really is so collectors and investors can make educated decisions.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>So he tells you the coin is OVERGRADED!&nbsp; How many collectors and investors are going to send the coin back to the original grading company because of this Fourth Party Grading service&#039;s opinion?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>They simply look at coins, hopefully slowly and carefully, like I do. </i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>I may spend a few minutes carefully examining a single coin, or I may spend a half hour.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I remind you, that he is examining the coin THROUGH THE HOLDER not actually viewing the coin in hand so how accurate is this grading?&nbsp; Some holders may be scratched or stained over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, again it&#039;s buyer beware![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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