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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 3974000, member: 4626&quot;]It&#039;s made a large number of collectors lazy, trusting the TPGs&#039; judgment over their own.&nbsp; And that&#039;s made them EASIER to scam, not harder.&nbsp; The easiest way to scam people is to convince them you, or some third party, knows more about the item than they do.&nbsp; (And that&#039;s before factoring in the fact that slabs can be faked too, the entire point of this thread.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Through my own personal observation?&nbsp; There is such a thing as independent learning you know.&nbsp; I also have functioning eyes I can look at coins with.&nbsp; People can lie all day about a coin but I can still see the coin and tell if it&#039;s fake, altered, or overgraded.&nbsp; I don&#039;t need anyone else to tell me that.&nbsp; (And an ugly coin is still an ugly coin regardless of what a seller or TPG says.)&nbsp; I can see for myself how good a coin is, and decide whether what a seller is asking is worth it to me.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what the seller or some TPG tells me about a coin if I still don&#039;t like it, or don&#039;t think it&#039;s worth what the seller is asking for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t have the ability yourself to decide whether or not something you&#039;re spending your money on is worth what it&#039;s being sold for, you shouldn&#039;t spend the money.&nbsp; Otherwise you&#039;re just begging to be ripped off.</p><p><br /></p><p>(And before you try to go the route of questioning my expertise, I am not claiming to be infallible.&nbsp; But if a significant amount of money is on the line, and I can&#039;t be sure myself whether or not something is a scam... I err on the side of caution and take my money elsewhere.&nbsp; I&#039;m not omniscient but I&#039;d like to think I have enough sense to be cautious.&nbsp; My entire collecting life I&#039;ve never paid more than a reasonable amount of money on a coin, and I&#039;ve only ended up with a fake coin once, losing me a grand total of $15.&nbsp; Not a bad track record for over 30 years of collecting and counting.&nbsp; Number of slabbed coins I bought in that entire span of time?&nbsp; 3.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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