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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1411742, member: 112&quot;]Absolutely nothing wrong with seeing things as they are. I strongly recommend it and agree 100%.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is not as we would have them be, but rather as they are supposed to be. For that is the purpose of written grading standards is it not ? I mean why bother to write down grading standards if you have no intention of following them ? The very word standards means something that is static, a base line to judge things from and decide where a given coin falls on or from that line. </p><p><br /></p><p>If the TPGs wish to change grading standards, fine, let them do so. But at the very least let them also tell us what those standards are. For to have fluid and changing standards is to have no standards at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that is precisely what we have with the TPGs - no standards at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>Instead what we have are TPGs assigning a grade to a coin based on a whim and putting it out there before us. And if we (meaning the market) are willing to accept that grade then that grade stands and it becomes the new standard. </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with this is that the people accepting the assigned grade have no idea how to assign how to assign a grade themselves. So they blindly accept the &quot;wisdom&quot; of the TPG simply because they are the TPG and therefore they must know more than we do and therefore they must be right. And how dare we doubt their word and opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now THAT is exactly, precisely what is happening. And if you don&#039;t see something wrong with that, then I really, and truly, feel sorry for you. And anybody else who feels the same way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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