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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 95762, member: 2761&quot;]Well, we will then let the FREE market forces come into play because if the market doesn&#039;t accept the results, companies go out of business.&nbsp; After all, what do collectors scream the loudest when it comes to grading?&nbsp; <b>Consistency</b>!!&nbsp; That is, if the same coin is submitted 10 times, it comes back with the same grade 10 times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conspiracy thinking and worries aside, computers don&#039;t get tired at 4:55 PM at the end of a grading day.&nbsp; Your thinking is that some geek programmer will break in to the likes of PCGS or NGC and tamper with their computers, if they use a device like I mentioned, and program it for grades THEY want.&nbsp; That sounds like the O.J. Simpson defense!!</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess you can make the same argument with cash registers, and all weight and measure devices.&nbsp; You are right.&nbsp; The gas I pump is probably giving me a .95 gallon instead of a full gallon.&nbsp; What you fail to understand is that when something like this fraud is exposed, the free market quickly has a choice to do business elsewhere.&nbsp; Companies are smart enough to realize that any short term gain is not worth the end of their business.&nbsp; Also, why would a computer programmer want to tamper with the grades when they can do that RIGHT now??&nbsp; That&#039;s right...it is much easier to get 3 graders in a room and pay them off to grade a coin MS66 instead of MS64.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may trust your eyes, but face it...your eyes are EASILY influenced by adjacent colors and other variables.&nbsp; Here...I have a simple test for you.&nbsp; How many white dots (at once) do you see?&nbsp; None of the dots should be turning gray.&nbsp; None of the dots blink.&nbsp; Remember, each dot is solid white. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ahem...a laser scanner and a color measuring device like a colorimeter will see each dot as white and will not tire out near the end of a long grading day.&nbsp; <u>Math is exa</u>ct.&nbsp; (x,y,z) A from (x,y,z) B is a simple computation.&nbsp; Calculate that over 50,000 data points and you have REAL objective data.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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