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Message:: [QUOTE="Pepperoni, post: 196767, member: 5520"]TPGs When you have a year like 2006 20th anniversary, it could afford an in  depth deception when so much money is to be made. You may send in a rare specimen for authentication and know you got probably the same coin back. People have trusted with no way to verify ASE and AGE sets for grading. IF a dealer sends in a few hundred sets and indicates a percentage should probably be PF 70 do they cater to those wishes ? Do you get back the coins you sent in ? Are some or all of your sets pooled in to grades ? If yours come back PF 68 or PF69 how do you prove those coins were the coins you sent in. You have a receipt with a number on it, that only means it identifys you have sent coins to be graded. There is no means to verify other then their word you got back what you sent in. THAT is a lot of TRUST to place when profit is involved. This is just the kind of thing ENRON did to a whole lot of people, take their TRUST and misuse it. Nothing could be ever proved because the industry is small,and a cover up could be put in place almost immediately. Because of gaping holes like this I would never use a TPG except to possibly authenticate a coin and maybe not then.I have read that it is cheaper to buy slabbed coins in the grade you want it is cheaper in the long run. In the long run they control the industry. " Fist Strike, Early Mintage, One of many .[/QUOTE]