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<p>[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 314501, member: 246"]Most dealers are not pleased with the TPG. Do you think they like having to send in a coin and spend $25 to have it graded just so they can sell it to a collecting population that is getting dumber and dumber every day?</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p>I very much like slabs. They help my business model. I won't deny that. I slab thousands of coins every year. I have over 1,250 in at one of the TPG right now and another 1,500+ waiting to go in later this month. If I could make as much selling the coins raw, I would, but collectors are demanding the coins in slabs so that is what I provide for them. I'm a capitalist.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your misattributed ancient, mistakes happen. I've seen it from all the TPG services. I've seen it from the biggest auction houses. I've seen it from long time extremely well respected dealers. Mistakes happen. If you have no faith in anyone that has ever made a mistake - even a blatant mistake, then you must have faith in no one including yourself. ICG has slabbed fakes and they have made good under their guarantee. They've misattributed and corrected the mistakes when brought to their attention. If you want perfection, sorry...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gmarguli, post: 314501, member: 246"]Most dealers are not pleased with the TPG. Do you think they like having to send in a coin and spend $25 to have it graded just so they can sell it to a collecting population that is getting dumber and dumber every day? I very much like slabs. They help my business model. I won't deny that. I slab thousands of coins every year. I have over 1,250 in at one of the TPG right now and another 1,500+ waiting to go in later this month. If I could make as much selling the coins raw, I would, but collectors are demanding the coins in slabs so that is what I provide for them. I'm a capitalist. As for your misattributed ancient, mistakes happen. I've seen it from all the TPG services. I've seen it from the biggest auction houses. I've seen it from long time extremely well respected dealers. Mistakes happen. If you have no faith in anyone that has ever made a mistake - even a blatant mistake, then you must have faith in no one including yourself. ICG has slabbed fakes and they have made good under their guarantee. They've misattributed and corrected the mistakes when brought to their attention. If you want perfection, sorry...[/QUOTE]
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