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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 729652, member: 112&quot;]OK, now let me throw another wrench into the works :secret:</p><p><br /></p><p>I am constantly being told by knoweldgeable people that coins are not graded any longer, that they are instead priced. So here we are, over a year into a market downturn and with prices dropping and showing no sign of stopping that drop any time soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it wasn&#039;t long after the market began dropping that the scuttlebutt on the coin forums was that the TPG&#039;s were tightening up. That has continued ever since and it seems to be getting worse. If you are to believe what is being written in the coin forums by those who are submitting the coins anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I have to ask myself, if the premise that coins are being priced and not graded is correct - what happens when all those MS66 and MS67 coins - the kind that I complain about all the time and say that they have been over-graded - what happens to them now that prices are dropping ? If they are resubmitted now, will they be downgraded and become MS65&#039;s and MS64 that they should have been to begin with ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean it follows doesn&#039;t it ? If coins are graded higher than they deserve because the prices were high and rising, then if prices drop they have to be down-graded don&#039;t they. That <b>IS</b> what pricing a coin instead of grading it does isn&#039;t it ? </p><p><br /></p><p>And of course some will say that the TPG&#039;s tightening up and the market dropping - both at the same time is just coincidence <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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