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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 1612367, member: 4626&quot;]Problem with that theory is <i>someone</i> has to pay the grading fee at some point to get them slabbed in the first place.&nbsp; Money spent on slabbing the coins is money not being spent on other coins.&nbsp; There&#039;s still an opportunity cost, and the money spent on slabbing is lost to the hobby as a whole even if an individual buyer/seller isn&#039;t the one that has to pay it.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s like the &quot;parable of the broken window&quot; where someone tries to argue that breaking a window somehow stimulates economic activity because of the necessity to repair the window, when in reality the economy as a whole is poorer by at least the cost of the window.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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