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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1916D10C, post: 3256985, member: 97585&quot;]You did not address my question baseball, but strategically avoided it. My question is when and where does this end. Are we no longer going to be able to view our coins inside the slabs because they are covered with stickers from companies symbolizing that the evaluation of another company&#039;s evaluation of another company&#039;s evaluation of another company&#039;s evaluation of another company&#039;s evaluation of the coin is accurate?</p><p><br /></p><p>You can support CAC all you want but where does it end? When is CAC going to loosen their standards and another verification company is needed to verify that their sticker symbolizes what it is intended to?</p><p><br /></p><p>Where does this madness end?</p><p><br /></p><p>From a strictly capitalistic standpoint, more power to JA and CAC. There is obviously a market, a demand, and a desire for their services and they are filling the need.</p><p><br /></p><p>The vexing aspect of the idea of such a company is it displays that collectors are continuing to need more and more validation from those in the field that they deem &quot;experts&quot;, instead of learning the market, training their eye and learning over time the subtleties and intricacies of eye appeal, grading, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>This constant habit of putting experts on a pedestal and relying on more and more services to state what to trained collectors should be obvious, is extremely bothersome and we should all be looking at ourselves and our weaknesses and the holes in our knowledge that we need to work on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead of &quot;teaching a man to fish&quot;, or, more accurately, &quot;learning how to fish&quot; in regards to learning from and talking with experts about coins, too many collectors instead want to be spoon fed- this trend started with the TPG&#039;s, and now continues to get more ludicrous with such companies as CAC. Continuing this analogy and train of thought, more and more often, collectors want to be fishermen, but refuse to learn how to fish, what lures to use, what spots to cast at, etc. They want the experts to fish for them and do all the work. One does not start out on day one landing the 12 lb largemouth, just like collectors from day one do not start out dropping thousands of dollars on key dates. To expect to be able to do so in both situations is just plain foolish.</p><p><br /></p><p>We need to all stop being kleptomaniacs and get back to coin collecting, not collecting colorful adornments on a piece of plastic .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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