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 Posted 11/19/2025  3:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DanFielding to your friends list

Each contribution of $775, a 61% discount from the projected retail price of $1,995, includes the QCG device and 50 free coin scans.

So I buy this thing yet I have to pay for scanning after 50?
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 Posted 11/19/2025  4:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list
Too expensive for the vast majority of collectors. Sounds like it's heading in the direction "pay for scamming" after the first 50.
Wait and see, a device capable of reliable grading is inevitable and probably sooner than later.
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 Posted 11/19/2025  4:55 pm  Show Profile   Check nss-52's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add nss-52 to your friends list
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 Posted 11/19/2025  5:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add HondoB to your friends list
I don't see how a machine can determine something as subtle as "eye appeal".
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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 Posted 11/19/2025  5:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add westcoin to your friends list

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I don't see how a machine can determine something as subtle as "eye appeal".


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 Posted 11/19/2025  6:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list
The machine's perception of eye appeal might be no worse than some of us with odd tastes.
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 Posted 11/19/2025  6:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
A good test piece would be an electrical box knockout plug....
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 Posted 11/19/2025  7:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oriole to your friends list
So it seems that after the initial outlay, you effectively RENT the machines. Presumably it links to a database somewhere. Any idea what the cost per scan will be after the first 50?
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 Posted 11/19/2025  7:46 pm  Show Profile   Check Brandmeister's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Brandmeister to your friends list
Perhaps the intention is to gather all the thoughtful customer disputes and feed them back into the AI engine to improve the machine over time.

Alternately, they might have a way to harness the tidal wave of customer frustration into some form of carbon-free energy.
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 Posted 11/19/2025  8:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marv65 to your friends list
Let me know when the big TPG's start laying off their graders in preference to buying these machines!
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 Posted 11/19/2025  11:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Greasy Fingers to your friends list
Crowdfunding starts next year..... let me know when the first coin is scanned....
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So it seems that after the initial outlay, you effectively RENT the machines...
Nobody owns anything anymore. Everything is becoming "x as a service" to keep money coming in.
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 Posted 11/20/2025  08:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list

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Perhaps the intention is to gather all the thoughtful customer disputes and feed them back into the AI engine to improve the machine over time.
You give them too much credit.


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