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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1365399, member: 13650&quot;]Summed up beautifully.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Not to pick on Doug, but I think it&#039;s a bit misleading for anyone reading this thread to see somebody claiming slabs are a &quot;waste of money&quot; when they themselves are not actually purchasing any coins anymore.&nbsp; As he admitted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The reality is, most people are afraid of fakes.&nbsp; There&#039;s bad fakes that are obvious.&nbsp; There&#039;s good fakes that fool experienced dealers.&nbsp; An expensive, raw coin offered on ebay gives little comfort to potential buyers and therefore will likely sell at a deep discount compared to one in a slab.&nbsp; Sometimes it can even be hard to tell if one has been cleaned.&nbsp; A whole other issue in itself.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; People pay for slabbing because it is essentially, professionals giving their &quot;blessing&quot; to a certain coin, who have NO STAKE in the game.&nbsp;&nbsp; When two graders look at my coin, they really don&#039;t care if it&#039;s been cleaned, if it&#039;s fake, if it&#039;s MS 63 or MS 62, regardless of the price difference!!!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; But the dealer or individual selling a raw coin is almost always going to go with a higher end grade on everything and don&#039;t attempt to tell them something is fake or cleaned.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I can&#039;t believe people are even arguing the merits of this.&nbsp;&nbsp; I whole-heartedly agree that yes, it is only somebody else&#039;s opinion on the slab.&nbsp; But at least they do it for a living on a daily basis.&nbsp; And at least they are a third party, disconnected from the emotional aspect of it and who have no stake in whether something is a grade higher or not.&nbsp;&nbsp; If somebody thinks there&#039;s another way to get a more unbiased, professional opinion on a coin, please lay it out here.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I have no affiliation with any TPG.&nbsp; I&#039;m just defending slabbing for what it is.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy for me to understand why people use the service.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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