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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2445747, member: 24314&quot;][USER=78153]@World Colonial[/USER] asked me to answer some question regarding my post#287:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. How do you conclude that a sample of two confirms or refutes anything?&nbsp; <span style="color: #b300b3">All I can conclude is this:&nbsp; One member who appeared to be disappointed with grades he received and appeared to claim that TPGS grading is a crapshoot got two coins crossed at the same grade, thus his point is pointless. </span></p><p><br /></p><p>There are no absolutes in grading and from a financial standpoint, it is perception of accuracy and especially consistency, not how &quot;accurate&quot; any grading service is or is not. <span style="color: #b300b3">I cannot find ANY post on this thread that claims that, so...?</span></p><p><br /></p><p>At this point in time, SEGS is not viewed at parity with NGC and PCGS, period. <span style="color: #b300b3">True.&nbsp; However, the poster I replied to did not try to cross SEGS coins ...so?</span>&nbsp; That is a fact whether any specific coins cross or not and whether any supporters of SEGS (or any other grading service) like it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>What this means in practice is a self re-enforcing spiral where any coins that most buyers believe will cross at grade (and sometimes one or more below it) will be cracked out.&nbsp; This will leave the &quot;over graded&quot; and &quot;problem&quot; coins in SEGS or other TPG holders further re-enforcing the perception of inferiority. <span style="color: #b300b3">Good point.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think this has anything to do with my posts either; but thanks for making it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">Nevertheless, I have seen many correctly graded coins in SEGS holders.&nbsp; The member I replied to has also. </span></p><p><br /></p><p>What the examples you used really demonstrate is that there frequently isn&#039;t a dime&#039;s worth of substantive difference between coins one or even multiple points apart on the Sheldon scale.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <span style="color: #b300b3">You think? That&#039;s NUTS!&nbsp; </span>Of course, collectors don&#039;t want to admit it today because that would bring into question the merits of the existing pricing structure and God forbid, with it the value of the more expensive and higher grade coins as &quot;investments&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two ways to approach it.&nbsp; Either learn how to apply the existing market grading standards <span style="color: #b300b3">Are those the one&#039;s you wrote don&#039;t have &quot;a dime&#039;s worth of difference&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </span>effectively. </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b300b3">Finally <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; is this the point you are using my comments to a DIFFERENT POSTER THAN THE OP in Post#287 to write about?</span></p><p>This is something the OP obviously did not do. <span style="color: #b300b3">I AGREE.&nbsp; Perhaps you should be educating her not me.</span> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> You Or, buy coins where this criteria doesn&#039;t matter or is a lot less important.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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