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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1444111, member: 112"]Let's put it this way Rusty, you can't prove it either way with 5 or 10 or even a 100 examples. It's too big for that. You have to look at it as a whole, not just isolated examples, to actually see it. It's a forest and trees thing. But consider this - everybody, even those who most steadfastly deny that there has been any change in TPG grading standards, will agree that gradeflation exist. Even Paul. But how can you have gradeflation if the grading standards did not change ? Answer - you can't. If you read that interview that Owle posted, you hear it straight from the horse's mouth - TPG grading standards have changed. There are no ifs and no maybes, they HAVE changed. And they are not as strict as they used to be. And it doesn't matter "why" they changed, it only matters that they did change. And there was another interesting point that was made in that interview. Often, as a way of explanation for gradeflation, it is said that TPGs do not grade coins, they price coins. But in that interview it was stated flat out that TPGs do not "price" coins, they grade them. Anybody who can read that interview and still attempt to deny or explain away the fact that the TPGs have changed (meaning loosened) their grading standards is merely looking for a way to believe what they want to believe instead of believing the truth that has been right in front of their face the whole time.[/QUOTE]