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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 26646720, member: 1886&quot;]It&#039;s classic Darwin. The fat, dumb and happy get eaten.</p><p><br /></p><p>How would it be today if collectors in the 70&#039;s and especially the 80&#039;s&nbsp; had not started sniveling and paying others do the dirty work?</p><p><br /></p><p>I was ecstatic when I found out I could just pay ANACS to authenticate coins. There&#039;s a photo of my first submission in 1979 in Condor&#039;s first book. And then &quot;what&#039;s this?&quot; now they&#039;ll grade coins too. I don&#039;t have be bothered with any of this authentication&nbsp; and grading stuff? Just buy, submit, put a check mark on the list, throw it in the bank box, and wait until I&#039;m&nbsp; rich. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, what good did it do us? &quot;Buy the coin not the slab.&quot; Really? Pay for a graded coin that I still have to grade. Does anyone pay for an oil change and then do it themselves when they get their motor car home?</p><p><br /></p><p>For every collector&nbsp; like the OP ^ who can spot suspect&nbsp; coins and slabs, how many can&#039;t and end up getting eaten sooner or later. I&#039;d bet anything it&#039;s way more than collectors from the 60&#039;s or earlier who had to do it all themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someday we won&#039;t have to do anything. Just buy into an ETF. And the mantra will be buy the slab not the digital paper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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