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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1411993, member: 26302&quot;]My only issue with TPG changing their grading based on market whims is that its not an electronic system where they can change all previous slabs. Lets say Oregon Trail commemoratives are hot, so instead of a 64 they assign them a 65 grade. Now a decade later they are cool, so instead of a 64 a new coin will get graded a 63. In between times the coins were graded 64. </p><p><br /></p><p>What do those grades mean anymore? So we have 3 grades of the same coin in the same company&#039;s slabs over a period of time. Which is right? Any of them? Should they put a &quot;good by&quot; date on the slabs saying this grade is only good for a couple of years, and after that needs to be resubmitted for a more &quot;current&quot; grade?</p><p><br /></p><p>This is exactly why there has to be a definitive grade standard that a TPG has to follow all of the time, regardless of market conditions, for a TPG slab to have any meaning. Since they don&#039;t, in my eyes a slab&#039;s grade holds no value to me. I would buy a coin in a slab if I was concerned about it being genuine, and nothing else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, it makes me sad to bring up a &quot;good by&quot; date, since I could see that being put in place. TPG firms could make a lot more money if their slabs were not good forever. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> In a way though they do the same thing by grade inflation. If you gradually raise your grades assigned you are encouraging &quot;crackouts&quot; and more volume and profit for them. Are we sure that is not what is happening, rather than &quot;market grading&quot;, its &quot;grade inflation&quot; to try to drum up more resubmits and fatter bottom line profits? Another reason for static written grades they should have to be responsible to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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