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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 362457, member: 4626&quot;]They may pride themselves on that, but consistently coming up with the same opinion doesn&#039;t make it less of an opinion.&nbsp; Besides, it&#039;s been proven that you can send any given coin to a given grading company and come up with a different grade many times; sometimes it can vary by as many as 5 points even from the so-called top tier grading companies!&nbsp; I&#039;ll concede your point that if a company claims to have consistent standards but in reality just assigns arbitrary grades, that&#039;s corruption.&nbsp; But even if they have a consistent set of standards it&#039;s still an individual grader&#039;s subjective opinion as to whehther a given coin meets them or not.&nbsp; Again, the proof of that is you can send the same individual coin to the same TPG multiple times and not get the same grade every time... some experiments have shown variances of up to plus or minus 5 points from even the top tier grading services.&nbsp; If there was actually such a thing as &quot;an objective grading standard&quot; the coin should come back as exactly the same grade every time, which it doesn&#039;t.&nbsp; If the coin&#039;s condition hasn&#039;t changed, but the grade has, the only possibilites are that either the grading is subjective or that the company does not have consistent standards, take your pick; either way it proves their grading service is worthless.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that minute and subjective differences in grade can make a big difference in a coin&#039;s value proves what a complete rip-off TPGs are more than anything else.&nbsp; If I can&#039;t tell that difference between a coin that a TPG calls an MS66 and a MS67, I&#039;d be a fool to pay the premium on the MS67.&nbsp; I&#039;ll just buy the MS66 and save money by getting a coin that looks almost as good as far as I can see.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spend money on coins, not on other peoples&#039; subjective grading opinions.&nbsp; It would be a stupid waste of money otherwise.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I refuse to buy any TPG&#039;s services and won&#039;t even buy slabbed coins unless it&#039;s a coin that it is worth getting a professional jusgement on its authenticity rather than its grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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