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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 68091, member: 112"]Thought you knew me better than that. No - I am not saying that at all. What I AM saying is this - for years the collectors have looked up to and trusted the ANA when it came to their grading standards. But for the past 10 years at least the grading companies and large dealers have completely ignored the standards in the old ANA book. The problem is - MOST collectors don't and didn't know that. Most collectors mistakenly thought the grading companies DID follow the ANA standards. So the reason I think this new book is a good thing - is because to me, at long last, we have it in writing that the standards HAVE CHANGED. And we have it in writing from a source that most or many collectors trust - or used to trust. The problem is - most folks are not looking at this in that light. They are taking it that the ANA itself has changed the standards - they have not. In my opinion the ANA, by their comments in this book, is saying to collectors - WAKE UP FOLKS - THE RULES HAVE CHANGED !! THIS is what's going on in the marketplace with grading - and has been for years !! I can only hope that collectors will realize this and understand it for what it is and what it is supposed to be instead of something it is not.[/QUOTE]