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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 6315635, member: 112&quot;]No it isn&#039;t. It&#039;s actually quite simple. Almost everybody ignores the opinions of others when making a buying choice on just about everything and make their choice based on their own opinion. So if oyu can do it with everything else, why can&#039;t you do it with coins ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I managed to do it even before the internet existed and I wasn&#039;t rich or retired. And I typically worked anywhere from 10-12 hrs a day, often 7 days a week. It&#039;s not that your hobby doesn&#039;t allow you to do it, it&#039;s that you make a choice not to do it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would never care what the slab says regarding grade. The only time I would care would be when I could not authenticate a coin myself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course. As I said above the vast of collectors are plastic buyers. So if you are planning to sell, what the plastic says greatly influences your buying decision. That&#039;s merely part of the thinking that applies if selling is your reason for buying.</p><p><br /></p><p>And oddly enough, sometimes it&#039;s even wise to crack a coin out of a slab and offer to sell it raw. Why ? Because potential buyers like to gamble and will often over-grade a coin and this makes them think their potential profit lies in the coin getting a higher grade, one equal to their own opinion. And that makes them overpay for the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the huge problems with TPGs slabbing problem coins. Those whose scruples aren&#039;t as high as they should be will buy slabbed problem coins, crack them out and offer them raw because many potential buyers simply cannot identify a problem coin. Thus they will significantly overpay for that coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, it&#039;s quite complicated and it all depends on what your reason for buying is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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