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<p>[QUOTE="Owle, post: 20319703, member: 22004"]A local dealer who used to advertise heavily in Coin World and other numismatic publications now mainly uses Anacs and gets most all his coins graded for under $10 each in bulk submissions. Icg has a number of good things going for it; reasonable pricing, quick turnound times responsive customer service.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are things that you can't say of NGC and PCGS who were both bought out by hedge funds during the pandemic. One was bought out by Steven A. Cohen the trader who nearly went to jail for insider trading and the other was bought out by Blackstone as the principal asset holder. Last year NGC jacked up its threshold for submissions requiring nearly $200 a year just to be a member, and pulled all dealer accounts that did not pony up! PCGS is slower than molasses in January on grading. Personally I like a minimalist holder, not sure why Anacs or Icg couldn't go back to the small white holder.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owle, post: 20319703, member: 22004"]A local dealer who used to advertise heavily in Coin World and other numismatic publications now mainly uses Anacs and gets most all his coins graded for under $10 each in bulk submissions. Icg has a number of good things going for it; reasonable pricing, quick turnound times responsive customer service. These are things that you can't say of NGC and PCGS who were both bought out by hedge funds during the pandemic. One was bought out by Steven A. Cohen the trader who nearly went to jail for insider trading and the other was bought out by Blackstone as the principal asset holder. Last year NGC jacked up its threshold for submissions requiring nearly $200 a year just to be a member, and pulled all dealer accounts that did not pony up! PCGS is slower than molasses in January on grading. Personally I like a minimalist holder, not sure why Anacs or Icg couldn't go back to the small white holder.[/QUOTE]
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