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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1066952, member: 66&quot;]Well that depends.&nbsp; If you are selling to an experienced collector that&#039;s true, they will judge based on the coin not the slab.&nbsp; But selling to a dealer or someone else interested in resale they will be interested in the slab because the slab </p><p>makes the coin an easier sale to someone who isn&#039;t experienced and who will just go by whatever the label says.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But you rarely hear them point out the &quot;gift grades&quot; they get.&nbsp; &quot;Boy look at this one!&nbsp; A 63 all day long and they called it a 65!&nbsp; I&#039;m going to make out like a bandit when I move that sucker.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They get enough monster boxes they probably wouldn&#039;t know who submitted those, but when a major collection is announced coming up for auction and then a bunch of coins that obviously came from that collection come through I&#039;m sure they know who submitted them.&nbsp; Do they give them special favors?&nbsp; I don&#039;t have enough evidence one way or the other, but I would not be surprised if it happens in some cases.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And where will many of thesenewbies or people who are too lazy to learn how to grade be buying.....ebay,&nbsp; Where they will get the low end dumped coins that they think are accurately graded.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In some cases they might know.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course just because they make that complaint doesn&#039;t mean the coins actually were undergraded. Let&#039;s see the coins and see if their complaints have any merit.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I said earlier, you don&#039;t hear about the favors, you hear about the complaints.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How about refrain from spending large amounts of money until they DO know what they are doing.&nbsp; Start small and as they learn more they can increase the amounts they spend.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You left out never put a problem coin in a PCGS slab, never slab a dipped coin (yes back at the beginning they did include dipped as part of &quot;cleaned coins&quot;)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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