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Posted 08/20/2017 10:38 am
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Do you really think those whales are doing anything that might reduce their sales and profits?
Do you really think those whales are doing anything that might reduce their sales and profits?
Of course not, which cleanly illustrates the absolute need for the TPG system.
That said, I personally view that system with contempt, an Easy Button facilitating lazy collectors who want their lunch for free and are unwilling to exert the slightest effort to, you know, learn something about their coins. If you're gonna collect coins, you're gonna learn to grade. That should be axiomatic.
However, the majority of the underpinning for coin values - and high coin values benefit all of us, buyers and sellers alike, when you think about it - rests upon the shoulders of folks whose purpose for collecting vitally factors resale value above other considerations.
If there weren't a plurality of such folks involved in collecting, where would we dump our dogs in slabs?
So, yeah, let the TPG system continue. I own one single coin for which the slab played an important factor in the purchase, since it is Top Pop for the color and CAC'd (it's copper, and worthy of the given grade), but it's the only coin I've ever bought with that in mind. I don't like the system, but here it is and one might as well leverage it in their favor.
