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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Razz, post: 3524688, member: 100526&quot;]Fact is the coin grading &quot;business&quot; is in a &quot;mature&quot; market and has been for some time...</p><p><font size="4"><b>Here are six signs that your market might be maturing:</b></font></p><ol> <li>Customer needs/desires do not appear to be evolving rapidly.</li> <li>Consolidation by leading competitors is reducing competitive intensity.</li> <li>Disruptive innovations and new entrants are gaining share only gradually and top out at relatively low levels.</li> <li>Market shares of leading competitors have solidified and are changing gradually, if at all.</li> <li>Price, brand and/or channel strategy has supplanted product innovation as key value drivers.</li> <li>Cash flows are increasingly turning positive and being returned to investors rather than invested into the market.</li> </ol><p>So the Corporations know this and must add product innovations (think CAC stickers) as key value drivers, in absence of that they &quot;innovate&quot; new &quot;grading standards&quot;...this is pretty basic business 101 stuff people...</p><p><br /></p><p>Corporations can be a good thing, but once you get to a point it starts to be harder and harder to keep on the profits without expanding somehow...IMO</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: yes I cut and pasted the 6 signs of market maturity from an internet source; for informational purposes only and easily googled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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