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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 25486486, member: 4626&quot;]By definition you&#039;re not a <i>third party</i> grader if you have a direct financial stake in what the coins grade (in other words, if you&#039;re selling the coins you assigned a grade to).&nbsp; That&#039;s not just my personal opinion; that&#039;s what &quot;third party&quot; means.&nbsp; That&#039;s a very solid line, not a fuzzy one.&nbsp; I would argue if you&#039;d give a submitter any grade they asked for you&#039;re also disqualified, but that&#039;s harder to prove, grading opinions being subjective and all.&nbsp; But whether or not you even qualify as a third party is completely objective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not saying I would never buy anything from self-slabbers (heck I&#039;ve even bought a SGS coin once, even if I did immediately break it out of its &quot;slab&quot;) but as far as I&#039;m concerned I treat them as raw coins, ignore what they claim the grade to be and judge for myself, and wouldn&#039;t pay a penny over what that coin would sell for raw.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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