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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1439029, member: 29751&quot;]To say something is your opinion and then use terms like &quot;most buyers&quot; and &quot;most sellers&quot; is sort of funny, don&#039;t you think?&nbsp; Paul, you are an obvious PCGS kool-aid drinker, we all know that from your previous posts and your absolute love of PCGS images.&nbsp; But, I have to vocally disagree with what you try to pass off as your opinion...NGC and PCGS both have their good and bad points, but your casting of NGC as a &quot;last ditch effort&quot; to get a coin slabbed or as a &quot;second rate, low tier TPG&quot; is really off the deep end. AND, it has been shown many times that PCGS coins submitted to NGC and NGC coins submitted to PCGS both have potential to upgrade or downgrade...so the silly and unfounded promulgation of the idea that &quot;NGC grades are always one point higher&quot; mentality is just smoke and mirrors.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS prices are artificially high for many reasons.&nbsp; Among them the fact that many, many people play the PCGS registry game and&nbsp; PCGS doesn&#039;t like to &quot;play nice&quot; so they restrict their registry sets to their own brand of plastic.&nbsp; NGC registry sets for US coins allow both PCGS and NGC coins.&nbsp; Another reason is because PCGS &quot;price guide&quot; prices have very little base in reality.&nbsp; Uneducated people look at a price guide, think it is gospel, and shell out the money to pay for such a coin.&nbsp; Just because you put a &quot;value&quot; for a coin on your website doesn&#039;t mean it is worth that or would bring anything close to that in an auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider myself an experienced and savvy buyer of coins.&nbsp; And, I don&#039;t <b>prefer</b> NGC or PCGS...<u>I prefer the best coin</u>.&nbsp; So, I would argue that your understanding of &quot;savvy and experienced&quot; is a bit off the mark.&nbsp; I feel sorry for people who think PCGS is somehow magical, as you have closed your collecting to at least half of the available high grade coins in the market.&nbsp; I mean, if one cares to convince themselves that &quot;only PCGS is collectable&quot; then I dare say you are neither savvy nor experienced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, <u><i>this is all just my opinion</i></u>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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