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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 156190, member: 3813&quot;]Les emailed me saying the service isn&#039;t a scam and I wanted to clarify my earlier post if it made it seem like that is what I was saying.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a scam, rather just another person&#039;s *opinion* of a grade, based on an unstandard grading system (at best).&nbsp; I don&#039;t feel that one person or firm&#039;s *opinion* is any more right or wrong than another, nor that one person or firm&#039;s grading standard is any more right or wrong than another.&nbsp; The problem (as I see it) is that there isn&#039;t a standard grading system that everyone uses.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s as if there is such a thing as &quot;a true meaning of graded coins.&quot;&nbsp; Far as I know, there isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I would agree, &quot;that all MS63, MS64, MS65 and MS66 coins are not absolutely identical, and that some 65&#039;s are &#039;just made it&#039; coins while others are &#039;just missed 66&quot; coins&#039; &quot; I&#039;m not sure I agree that another person&#039;s opinon is any more right or wrong on the subject, regardless of how much experience they have.&nbsp; It is... just another opinion.&nbsp; Now, some might agree with that opinion, some may not.</p><p><br /></p><p>What it will reveal is that you have an opinion about the grade, and are willing to charge for the service of giving that opinion.&nbsp; I don&#039;t feel this is a scam, but I also don&#039;t feel that your opinion is worth more than anyone else&#039;s with the experience to do the job.&nbsp; If you held the holy bible on grading, and the standards you used were the standards used by everyone, then your educated opinion would be worth at least as much as an established grading service&#039;s opinion (which, in my opinion, isn&#039;t worth much).</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, &quot;I will grade coins as I believe they should be graded.&quot;&nbsp; ... so what?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you already posted it above (&quot;In most cases, PCGS grading is accurate within half a grade...&quot; etc.)&nbsp; You will think that some companies are close to what you feel the grade is and some are way off.&nbsp; Some coins will be a few 0.3 over and some will be 0.3 under.&nbsp; I think the majority of people already know this and feel the same way.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it&#039;s just another opinion, and &quot;the truth about coin grading&quot; is that there&#039;s no standard grading system that everyone must use, thus there&#039;s no right or wrong, and everyone or firm&#039;s opinion is just that... an opinion.&nbsp; There&#039;s really not enough room, nor a need to go over it again, to go through all the problems with TPG services (including yours).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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