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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3959403, member: 76863&quot;]Standards should be set be those engaging in a practice every day not theoretically from a far behind a desk.&nbsp; The market itself actually sets the standards anyways.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Being a nonprofit doesn&#039;t make something better nor does being for profit make something worse.&nbsp; Plenty of nonprofits waste countless amounts of money, some even support terrorism.&nbsp; The people that run nonprofits are very much for their own profit and salary in general.&nbsp; There&#039;s a reason why one of the major thing the last decade was for charities and nonprofits to disclose how much money they get actually goes to the cause it is supposed to and many of them failed miserably.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The difference is that nonprofits have no one to answer too, they can just shame people into donating or rely on people who think they&#039;re doing a great thing.&nbsp; Real companies have to answer to markets.&nbsp; If they do a poor job they get dropped down.&nbsp; The TPG situation of today is the market giving values even if some people don&#039;t like the result.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record there are plenty of great charities and non profits, it was just an example of how just being one doesn&#039;t make something better.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also there is no such thing as non-partisan when it comes to coin grading.&nbsp; Sellers want the best reasonable grade on their coins and buyers want draconian grading to get something as cheap as possible, that is of course until they send their coins in as it&#039;s time for them to sell and then they want upgrades and complain if they don&#039;t.&nbsp; Even people with no coins have agendas even if they&#039;re just nostalgic.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The market decides grading, it is the only thing that can and does remove personal bias and the trends that have been happening overall in terms of preferences, CAC etc the ships have sailed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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