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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 2943918, member: 4920&quot;]Who invented the standards before the TPGs? I&#039;ll bet if you asked your colleagues at ANA, they&#039;re so stupid, they&#039;ll answer ANA did that. Did ANA invent those standards? Or did ANA simply <i>classify</i> observable phenomenon relative to the state of preservation of the coin? It was the latter. Nobody invented those standards. And anybody back in that day who actually knew how to think could nail those ANA classifications on the button, every time. But today, what are the standards, but arbitrary? That&#039;s why we can&#039;t hold these TPGs to their grades. If they were grading observable phenomenon, we could hold them. We can&#039;t hold them when they&#039;re grading by these comic book standards ANA gave them, which are purely arbitrary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Learn how to technical grade, and the rest you&#039;re seeing on that plastic is but opinion. That&#039;s how we should be understanding these market grades. They&#039;re half-grade, half-opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah, the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought. That defines what this market game is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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