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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3195162, member: 112&quot;]Ya know, I&#039;m not sure if you really don&#039;t get it or if you just defend them no matter what - just because it&#039;s them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, most of the folks on this forum know what details slabs are - now, 10-11 years after the fact. But for the first few years there were a whole lot more who didn&#039;t. And for every one of those people who come to the forum and ask those questions, <u>there are a thousand more just like them</u> who don&#039;t go to coin forums, who still don&#039;t know or understand what they are buying.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;ve only been a member for less than 3 years, you weren&#039;t around back then, and for years afterwards. There were hundreds of posts like that, questions like that back then, and we still get them even today.</p><p><br /></p><p>And what about all the problem coins, that are so obviously problem coins, that are cleanly graded ? What about them, how do you defend that ? </p><p><br /></p><p>They started slabbing problem coins for one reason and one reason only - because their revenues were down due to low submissions. And they HAD to increase submissions somehow. Slabbing problem coins gave them the ability to do that. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s just like it was with NGC and modern coins. For 15 years NGC flat out refused to even accept any coin minted after 1964 - they wouldn&#039;t grade them at all ! But to increase revenues, because they had to, they changed that policy and began slabbing modern coins in 2001. </p><p><br /></p><p>The TPGs are in business to benefit the TPGs - not collectors ! Now I have no problem with that, that IS the purpose of any business. What I have a problem with is people, collectors, who think what the TPGs are doing is for the benefit of collectors ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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