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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mac McDonald, post: 7641507, member: 117420&quot;]I&#039;ve always wondered how all this First Strike stuff worked...have never known until now...disappointed but not surprised...somewhere between a sham and a scam based on everything I&#039;m learning.&nbsp; Even if you submitted it in all the OGP, unopened or however they say, within the 30 days and the other TPG deadline, et al, don&#039;t believe you&#039;d really ever know for sure if you&#039;d really have...or receive back...a slabbed First Strike that means anything of a &quot;first strike&quot;...whatever that means.&nbsp; A waste of time, anxiety, and money, IMO...but as always, to each their own.&nbsp; You&#039;d be just as well if not better to wait a while until the buzz dies down and buy one/some already slabbed.&nbsp; You won&#039;t know then, either, but you&#039;ll have avoided the anxiety of it all, plus the wait time and the rip-off of an extra TPG fee (rather put the fee toward the purchase).&nbsp; I still wonder how all those thousands upon tens of thousands of MS70 and PF70 First Strike coins (69s also for that matter) that go to the mega-dealers, fulfilment and clearing houses for bulk and TV sales, et al, are graded, one by one...with the same careful review process and finalizing we&#039;re told happens with other coins...while those (our) coins wait in TPG storage until all that grading is done...???&nbsp; Begs the question of how really careful and accurate TPGs are...or can be...with any coins at any time. The sheer numbers must influence the efficiency and accuracy of the limited grading process much like the candy assembly-line episode in the old &#039;I Love Lucy&#039; show. &quot;Speed it up...!&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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