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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 791811, member: 4626&quot;]Very much a collector, not a dealer.&nbsp; On rare ocassions I may sell parts of my collection I consider to be surplus, but any profits from such sales go right back into my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would <i>never</i> buy anything sight unseen, whether it&#039;s a banknote, coin, house, car, etc.&nbsp; Like I said before, I trust nobody&#039;s opinion when it comes to buying something other than my own.&nbsp; I&#039;ll look at the note or coin or whatever, and decide for myself whether the condition merits paying the asking price.&nbsp; And to call TPGs a &quot;neutral party&quot; is a joke.&nbsp; They stay in business by convincing people that their opinion is something worth paying for.&nbsp; They have a vested interest in buyers and sellers thinking that it&#039;s better to buy something &quot;professionally graded&quot; than raw.&nbsp; To say that makes them neutral is like saying advice from a car dealership on whether you should buy a car or just ride public transportation is a neutral opinion.&nbsp; Yeah right.</p><p><br /></p><p>I submit you shouldn&#039;t buy sight unseen, period, whether it&#039;s raw or not.&nbsp; As for selling, personally I don&#039;t care; I buy with the intention of keeping what I buy in my collection for the rest of my life.&nbsp; What my heirs do with my collection after I&#039;m gone is their problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for paper money, I say it&#039;s uncirculated or something less than that.&nbsp; (Which as far as I&#039;m concerned is what others would call 65 to 70.&nbsp; Less than that or some minor damage it drops to almost unicirculated.&nbsp; The grading I do is for my own benefit and I use my own personal standards.&nbsp; I don&#039;t intend on selling anything so I don&#039;t care if my standards agree with anybody else&#039;s.).&nbsp; To makre a distinction between 65 and 66, 69 or 70, or whatever I find pointless and pretty much rediculous.&nbsp; There&#039;s no set standards for this kind of thing, and no two graders (not even within the same TPG) have the same set of standards.&nbsp; If numbers don&#039;t mean exactly the same thing to everyone, they don&#039;t mean anything at all.&nbsp; And if they don&#039;t mean anything, they&#039;re not worth anything.&nbsp; Thus, the service of providing something worthless is also worthless.&nbsp; I know a lot of people disagree with me, but that&#039;s why I think the services of TPGs are a waste of money and I&#039;ll never pay a single penny more for a coin or banknote than I&#039;d pay for the exact same item raw.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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