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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2344738, member: 26302&quot;]Um, no. Us &quot;old timers&quot; are not leading new collectors astray. Its collectors like you who believe you should blindly drink the TPG koolaid, not learn to grade for themselves, and simply blindly accept whatever grade a TPG puts on a slab, (many times by accident), who are leading new collectors astray. My advice has always been to learn to grade FOR YOURSELF. Only the sheeple who are too lazy to grade for themselves and accept whatever grade a TPG puts on a piece of plastic are the ones who suffer. REAL collectors spend the work to learn how to grade, and can pick out fairly graded coins from overgraded POS&#039;s. If you do not learn to grade by yourself, then I am afraid to tell you that you have an overpriced, inferior coin collection as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about it. Basically by definition, with crackouts and resubmissions, the grade on a slab is the HIGHEST POSSIBLE grade that coin could ever have. If the TPG undergrades it, there are 100 dealers waiting to buy it, crack it out, and resubmit. This happens so often that it has to be assumed the case for all coins. So, either the slab is FAIRLY graded, or OVER graded. If you do not know how to grade yourself, then you are the sucker buying all of those overgraded slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, for the same reasons, (crackouts, etc), pop reports are meaningless. I personally know of hundreds of slabs that got cracked out and resubmitted. Do those &quot;old&quot; grades ever get taken OUT of pop reports? Of course not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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