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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 3555678, member: 15309"]No, PMs are just that, private.</p><p><br /></p><p>The founders of the TPGs readily admit that they loosened their standards within the first few years of their inception. That isn't up for debate, but it also isn't proof of what I am talking about.</p><p><br /></p><p>The conspiracy theory is that the TPGs both loosen and tighten their grading standards cyclically in order to boost resubmissions/crossovers. There is no problem with the TPGs loosening their standards, whether purposefully, or through the natural process of gradeflation which occurs as a result of the combination of economic opportunity and the inherent subjectivity in grading. However, once they tighten their standards, they are in violation of the their own stated guarantee, and are committing fraud.</p><p><br /></p><p>The example of PCGS Rattler slabs is a good one. Where have they gone? They are victims of gradeflation. But that alone does not prove that the TPGs are purposefully loosening and tightening their standards. </p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, I bought two Buffalo Nickels in PCGS Rattler slabs earlier this year. Not only were both not undergraded, I though both were subpar for the assigned grade.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/VwBNGWp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/kC2Ec7j.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/iIRGfoT.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zsXxNFS.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And while you point to coins that are undergraded that you can't use in your seminars, where are the examples of the overgraded coins? And by that, I don't mean comparing a graded coin to the standard used 30 years ago, I'm talking about the overgraded coins compared to the current standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 3555678, member: 15309"]No, PMs are just that, private. The founders of the TPGs readily admit that they loosened their standards within the first few years of their inception. That isn't up for debate, but it also isn't proof of what I am talking about. The conspiracy theory is that the TPGs both loosen and tighten their grading standards cyclically in order to boost resubmissions/crossovers. There is no problem with the TPGs loosening their standards, whether purposefully, or through the natural process of gradeflation which occurs as a result of the combination of economic opportunity and the inherent subjectivity in grading. However, once they tighten their standards, they are in violation of the their own stated guarantee, and are committing fraud. The example of PCGS Rattler slabs is a good one. Where have they gone? They are victims of gradeflation. But that alone does not prove that the TPGs are purposefully loosening and tightening their standards. FWIW, I bought two Buffalo Nickels in PCGS Rattler slabs earlier this year. Not only were both not undergraded, I though both were subpar for the assigned grade. [img]https://i.imgur.com/VwBNGWp.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/kC2Ec7j.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/iIRGfoT.jpg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/zsXxNFS.jpg[/img] And while you point to coins that are undergraded that you can't use in your seminars, where are the examples of the overgraded coins? And by that, I don't mean comparing a graded coin to the standard used 30 years ago, I'm talking about the overgraded coins compared to the current standards.[/QUOTE]
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