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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8365287, member: 24314&quot;]&quot;jeffB, posted: &quot;I don&#039;t run a TPGS, but I do work with databases.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The database is what you use to MAKE the &quot;cut&quot;.</b> How can you tell who&#039;s submitted multiple bad coins, <span style="color: #b30000">unless you track <i>every</i> person that <i>ever</i> submits a bad</span> <span style="color: #b30000">coin</span>?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">Hey, the light bulb went on but </span><span style="color: #b30000">that&#039;s not really necessary</span><span style="color: #660033">!&nbsp; Look, a normal young person inputting coins and shipping them out knows who the customers are and what they sent in.&nbsp; Heck, decades ago I could remember what the coins looked like in an order, what the status of an order was if given one of the better/odd/unusual coins in the order, etc.&nbsp; It was easy.&nbsp; I had a young brain, and I like to think an almost photographic memory.&nbsp; Of course, we only received between 200 and 500 coins a week.&nbsp; I&#039;m only half good at it now due to old age and a larger volume.&nbsp; <b>Now, I only track the customers who send the kind of fakes that PCGS slabs as genuine.</b>&nbsp; What I find is after trying to pass ICG a few times the crooks give up.&nbsp; Makes things interesting because they are going to get something past us.&nbsp; We are not perfect.&nbsp; Additionally, I&#039;m not interested in the customers sending in 95% of the C/F&#039;s I see because detecting them is &quot;gravy.&quot;&nbsp; I hope they continue to send it the junk fakes that still fool many collectors/dealers.&nbsp; Pays the light bill.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><b>So in summary as I&#039;m really getting tired of posting:</b></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">I just read my original post that started this again.&nbsp; </span><span style="color: #ff0000">I&#039;m <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie25" alt=":blackeye:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> the bad guy </span><span style="color: #660033">who waisted the time of two posters in this thread.&nbsp; I should have written that when a TPGS sees a state-of-the-art dangerous C/F (like the ones slabbed as genuine already) there should be a private database (access given to TPGS and others like some&nbsp; consultants) to alert other TPGS of suspicious coins.&nbsp; Note, this has been done in the past already with a simple phone call to one or more TPGS&#039;s including the customer&#039;s name and location.&nbsp; Oh MY <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> what&#039;s next, a database. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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