Is Anda A Joke Of An Organisation?

You are lucky spg1 in my opinion they would be the one of the shiftiest organisations to be related with coins by attempting to portray that they are "ethical" and "aboveboard" but to be honest they are utterly shameful in everyway they could possible achieve apart from dealer protection because they are tops at that. I mean it amazes me that the dealers would do such shifty things in the first place yes it is good to have a regulator but you would expect a dealer who has been in the business for 30 years to be able to grade accurately not nearly a whole grade of and isn't it such a surprise that this mistake nearly always results in a higher price for the piece. Anyway they should advertise that the coins are cleaned as under ANDA but they never do as far as I have seen. Utterly ineffiecent and a shame on the hobby both ANDA and the dealers who do these things.

Yeah I agree enworb but it always seems to be a coincidence that the grade assigned is to generous and I would have to say never under

How hard is it to know if a coin has been cleaned and to grade it Honestly.
Surely these guys in the ANDA "Club" would "Know their apples" as they are dealing in coins on a daily basis and have been doing so for years.

I doubt that there are any "Crappy" graders in that mob, Maybe lazy, incompetent but I feel on a large part Dishonest.
this is NOT to say ALL ANDA members are dodgy, I have bought off many an ANDA dealer without any problems whatsoever.

I think it is time that ANDA "Shook the tree" and threw all the bad apples over the fence

mschipp that was my opinion and what badpenny has posted only reinforces it but look at the poll not a single person has complete confidence in ANDA. Anyway I know that they have their share of bad dealers but gee I must have been so unlucky dealing with them because the five I have contacted tried to sell me over graded and cleaned coins. Overall tho ANDA fails to identify these dealers and when they are identified to them they simply protect the dealer who is doing the wrong thing now I can bet you that that would definitely hurt ANDA's reputation immensely

You know I used to think that these dealers that clean their coins do so because they genuinely believe they're better that way until I heard a certain Melbourne dealer actually tell a customer that his dull white (heavily dipped) proof florins were original, and the shiny ones other dealers sell were the cleaned ones! To me that was an obvious sign of his intention to deceive.

I take no notice whether a dealer is ANDA-registered or not. Ultimately, you've got to make your own judgements about coins.

I wouldn't be too critical of ANDA. As far as I know, they are just an organisation of volunteers who want to promote numismatics. They are not the coin ombudsman - not really their role to get involved about whether something is VF or EF.