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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3257160, member: 76863&quot;]It already has stopped and it&#039;s been stopped for years.&nbsp; The reason CAC works is because of the expert reputation of those involved with it.&nbsp; Many others have tried and non of the other stickers have gained the acceptance and reputation CAC has.&nbsp; The only one that has come close is the Eagle Eye one from Rick Snow, but even there most people would prefer CAC over his if they aren&#039;t a specialist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a fundamental misunderstanding of what CAC is and what their function is if people think that is going to happen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just like there is a fundamental misunderstanding with these people that act like more companies are just going to keep popping up and everyone is going to rush to them.&nbsp; Well guess what they did keep popping up, even ones that don&#039;t directly compete with CAC and their acceptance has been mediocre at best.&nbsp; They made some decisions that hurt their ability to draw in collectors but at the end of the day it&#039;s the unquestionable expertise that drives the CAC success and that isn&#039;t something that just anyone can replicate.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again that isn&#039;t what is happening at all.&nbsp; People are using the TPGs and CAC to learn and improve their skills and be more informed collectors.&nbsp; The existence of them is what has allowed the market to grow and reach out in areas it never would have been able to without them or the internet.&nbsp; Type collecting and branching out into other areas is another major benefit that collectors have been able to do with them.&nbsp; The simple fact is that collecting would be a ghost town if you had to study every series for years before you could ever buy anything nice.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Coin doctoring and fakes have gotten good enough that without them collectors would be the biggest marks on the planet, some still are over estimating their ability.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>CAC was never developed for the majority of coins that get sent to it now.&nbsp; In fact they raised prices twice to try and chase off some of the cheaper coins that were getting sent.&nbsp; They were made for the high end coins where people do want multiple opinions even the most knowledgeable of them and make no mistake A LOT of the most knowledgeable collectors that could run circles around most people in their series see the value of CAC.&nbsp; It was collectors that started to raise the demand and sending more and more things to them that ended up expanding their reach into lower value areas </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Except for the slab collectors who collect various types that isn&#039;t what people are doing at all.&nbsp; There&#039;s nothing wrong with the people that collect slabs either, but don&#039;t fall for the nonsense that some of the people push that people are just buying slabs not the coins.&nbsp; They wouldn&#039;t have bought the slab if they didn&#039;t like the coin unless they&#039;re just filling a hole they don&#039;t care about in a set.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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