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<p>[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 793865, member: 6370"]DIY is the best...the more information out there provided to us in a hobby the better informed we can be and the less we need to pay for the subjective opinion of a TPG. You know how the old saying goes...</p><p> </p><p>Pay a TPG money to lock your coin away in cheap plastic and put an opinion on it...or teach a person to judge these things for themselves and use the money on more coins and notes. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p>TPGs are like any other company making money off of peoples fears. Fakes and the fear of fakes and the uncertainty people have in their own knowledge and ability (or the refusal to learn) is their bread and butter. They dont WANT you to learn about the hobby you are spending hard earned money to pursue. Fakes are to TPGs what computer virus is to virus protection software makers. They dont want to get rid of them, they need to always be around and the fear of them must also be there...and the lack of easily obtained instruction. They want it to seem like this is so difficult to do that you dont even try. I have heard a person call it talent...it isnt...its learned and can be learned by anyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 793865, member: 6370"]DIY is the best...the more information out there provided to us in a hobby the better informed we can be and the less we need to pay for the subjective opinion of a TPG. You know how the old saying goes... Pay a TPG money to lock your coin away in cheap plastic and put an opinion on it...or teach a person to judge these things for themselves and use the money on more coins and notes. ;) TPGs are like any other company making money off of peoples fears. Fakes and the fear of fakes and the uncertainty people have in their own knowledge and ability (or the refusal to learn) is their bread and butter. They dont WANT you to learn about the hobby you are spending hard earned money to pursue. Fakes are to TPGs what computer virus is to virus protection software makers. They dont want to get rid of them, they need to always be around and the fear of them must also be there...and the lack of easily obtained instruction. They want it to seem like this is so difficult to do that you dont even try. I have heard a person call it talent...it isnt...its learned and can be learned by anyone.[/QUOTE]
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