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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1505967, member: 15309&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand your point but the number of people who trust my opinion over the TPG&#039;s is so small that it will guarantee that I make less money when I sell my collection.&nbsp; The same would happen to all of the other names in your list.&nbsp; Rick Snow is probably the leading expert on FEC&#039;s and IHC&#039;s and has been a very successful dealer of these coins for decades.&nbsp; If he took his entire inventory and cracked them all out of their plastic and put them back in the display for sale, do you think he would make more, less, or the same amount of money?&nbsp; Additionally, would it take him shorter or longer to make that amount of money?</p><p><br /></p><p>When you talk about the &quot;plastic collectors&quot;, nobody disputes that they exist and nobody disputes they a large part of the numismatic buying pool falls into that category.&nbsp; But when you try to sell your coins, if they are not professionally graded, you exclude the &quot;plastic collectors&quot; from your potential customer base.&nbsp; The &quot;plastic collectors&quot; and their lack of coin knowledge are a big reason for the liquidity of TPG graded coins.&nbsp; When you are selling your coins, the primary goal is to maximize the amount of money you can get in the shortest amount of time.&nbsp; When I said &quot;nobody&quot; cares about my opinion, that was hyperbole, but the &quot;plastic collectors&quot; don&#039;t care about my opinion, and that is a fact.&nbsp; Their coin knowledge is irrelevant, they have a significant impact on the market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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