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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1788342, member: 26302"]My issue comes from history and how TPG portrayed THEMSELVES to ingratiate themselves with the hobby. They promised us to never give out a 70 grade, they promised us to never grade a modern coin, (past 1964), they promised us their presence would REMOVE the hucksters from the hobby. Remember all of that Doug? All of those promises? Now that they have achieved success, they are simply FACILITATING hucksters by a veil of legitimacy that, "well the coin collecting hobby trusts them, so as long as I buy a TPG coin I cannot get ripped off".  So effectively they are mortgaging our name as a hobby to put money in their pocket, after broken every single promise they made to this hobby. I am not agains a guy making a buck. I am in business, I know everyone needs to make a living. I am simply against people going back on their word to distort this hobby into a support device to facilitate mass marketers to help sell more overpriced goods. I believe it makes all coin collectors guilty by association. Mention "coin collecting" to a non-collector and the most common associated phrase is "crook". I resent that, and anything that enables it to be believed. I know, I am on the periphery of this and some other issues Doug. Ya'll can just ignore me. Maybe I have been around too long.[/QUOTE]