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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2547395, member: 24314&quot;]Here are the facts as I know them:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Has an employee or owner of a TPGS ever upgraded a coin from one service to another.&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff0000">ABSOLUTELY,</span> it has happened tens of thousands of times due to gradeflation.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Has an employee or owner of a TPGS ever upgraded a coin for himself or a favorite client from one service to another?&nbsp; What do you think <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>In spite of rumors, actual cases, or if it never happens these are some things you&#039;ll need to consider.&nbsp; TPGS, their owners and graders have reputations. You can ruin a business by dishonesty and greed.&nbsp; Leaving out the changes in grading standards over time, there is wiggle room for grading &quot;liners.&quot;&nbsp; An honest evaluation may get an upgrade.&nbsp; However, you cannot make a solid MS-62 into an MS-63 and get away with it for long.&nbsp; As a coin&#039;s grade gets higher and the price spread gets larger (while there is more incentive to raise a grade for ill gotten profit) there is actually less chance of this happening very much due to the stricter interpretation of the higher grade.&nbsp; That&#039;s why coins with large price spreads are more often penalized in grade if compared to the same state of preservation of a common example.&nbsp; Furthermore, this example of buying MS-69 modern coins and upgrading them is virtually a myth. When a reputable TPGS grades a coin MS-69 IT IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE A 70!&nbsp; More often than not the coin will either down grade or cross at the same grade.&nbsp; I could go on and on but it is late <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie104" alt=":yawn:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and I&#039;ll let others comment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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