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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 783437, member: 6370&quot;]You would be another guy with an opinion and a slab...probably get a lot of people here to use you at least.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This guy could EASILY start grading coins and slabbing them and make a little money, even if nobody has ever heard of him and even if he slabbed everything at the wrong grade, or what you guys THINK is the wrong grade. What you guys think is irrelevant as I doubt you are his target. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The ground work has done for him, people already rely on slabs and TPGs rather blindly. There are people here who wont even buy a coin that isn&#039;t encapsulated in plastic. Many will just see the slab and feel a little better about buying it. As for his reputation...just say you have 20 year experience in coins...most wont check. Most people are getting their coins slabbed and graded by people they do not know, never seen or met, and know nothing about anyway.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was thinking of doing this myself...you dont need a guarantee. If I sent an ancient coin to NGC, they offer no guarantee...but still people do it. I will just be like any other TPG and if someone tells me they think my grade is wrong, I will simply give them some kind of double talk WHY I gave it that grade and WHY they aren&#039;t getting their money back...once you get the money, there will be only the most RARE cases where any company would ever refund it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Most will take the coin, the slab and a grade and not question it. Its the great thing about the racket...anyone can do it. If I send an ancient to NGC I have to pay them and entrust my coin to them. They will look at it, grade it and attribute it. If I later find it is fake...they send me a refund of my money (I assume). How many people do you think will go the extra mile and double check? How many will see the grade and plastic, trust it, then put it away in a drawer? NGC offers NO guarantee of authenticity so every other coin they slab could be fake and they will only lose what they didnt have in the first place, my fee, in the rare case someone double checks and in the even more rare case they accept and refund a dime.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If they come back to me and say &#039;I sent the coin to so and so and he says its fake&#039;...I will say so and so is wrong and I am right...no refund. Just make it harder than pulling teeth to ever get a refund (like they must get at least 3 experts to contradict me, and I am the judge of what is an expert.) lots of fine print that protects me under any circumstance. Like everyone in business does and you are good to go.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I had a revelation the other day, with fine print and disclaimers buried somewhere that doesn&#039;t draw attention, you never have to provide any quality service and you can still make money. When you ship a package with a shipping company. You are not paying them to deliver your package...you are just paying them for the possibility they will deliver it. There are disclaimers that say if they lose it or break it, they take no responsibility...and they don&#039;t. You have to get insurance...so the company is saying...sure we will TRY and deliver your package but we might not and if we don&#039;t, we aren&#039;t responsible...you need to pay MORE money and buy insurance. This still wont assure the package gets there at all or in one piece...but at least you can get a few bucks back if and when it doesn&#039;t....They offer no guarantee and, in essence, tell you &#039;we cant promise you it will get there so you better buy insurance because we wont take responsibility, we wont back up our service and cant assure anything at all.&#039;...this is what most business do with fine print, discharge any responsibility. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If ANYONE can get enough people to use and buy coins in your slab, he will do just fine...GOOD LUCK!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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