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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4594 Posts |
Look, it's just history - I own an ACCURADE slab, that's right, missing the G. If you can't get your own trademark right...
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10047 Posts |
Quote: Just another way to grab your money and totally unnecessary. Deja vu. We old timers said the same thing about slabbing when it came out. I am personally still not convinced slabbing is anything but a way of grabbing money. But after so many years have passed, and generations have been brought up with slabbing as common, there are a lot of people who see slabbing as an amazing, valuable, faith-worthy, essential part of the hobby -- despite other "experts" not willing to put a green bean on all the grading "experts" slabs. When slabs first started, we joked that someone should start a system of grading the slabbed coins. But we KNEW no one would ever fall for such a sucker's gimmick. *sigh* PT Barnum was right. And so MAC is simply repeating the process. Just like PCG, NGC, ANACs, and CAC; if MAC can last for some years, they also will become respected by those who have known nothing else. Quote: I think I'll start grading the plastic itself. I'll bean it based on scratches.
I know its a joke now (and I did chuckle), but just like we knew a grading system for slabbed coins would never make it b/c there were not enough suckers... there were. And now there are enough CAC stickers that they have gained respect with an awful lot of people (I exclude myself). So is it really so hard to believe there will be, in the future, a premium put on an older type slabs in pristine condition? Some people presently collect different labeled slabs of the same coin. So why not grade the plastic as well? And, BTW, for clarity sake here... If someone gets a thrill out of seeing a zillion different looking labels side by side, and are willing to spend their OWN disposable cash to get different labels (yet the slabs contain the same coin), then who am I to say they are foolish... except a fool? How arrogant for me to think I can define what another person's fun should be.
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
Edited by Earle42 04/19/2016 10:58 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
717 Posts |
You know, I have been known to remove scratches from older slabs before taking pictures of the coin...Am I possibly decreasing the value of the slab? Details, cleaned and polished slab. :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10047 Posts |
 As long as you clearly mark it as such when you go to sell it, you should be OK. Although I see another business opportunity! Be a self-proclaimed expert on being able to confirm levels of cleaning and polishing done to slabs! Maybe affix holographic stickers with a picture of Mr. Clean (dating myself) to the slab. In fact...make the stickers in different colors depending on how bad the cleaning was, and y9ou even get a secondary way of generating more interest and income! Just think, 15 years from now guys could be rolling in dough.
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10047 Posts |
Date: April, 2, 2042 Subject: SOLD! ebay BIN Winning Bid: @20,000.00 Seller Comments: Can you believe people used to think the professional verification services were nonsense? Grab this rare gem now. I am not sure which Ike the slab actually contains, but its had every possible service verify it, its slab, and verify each others' verification process(eseses -- and a few more checked all of this). The slab was meticulously assessed by the highly respected (bow heads please) Professional Slab Grading Service. Upon the coin and slab arriving at their (honorable) company, the forty-two-graders-minimum-check-system for all measurements (nanometer tolerances) was utilized. The masses of data was compiled for each verifiable characteristic. The same forty-two graders then cross checked each others work before the final decision was debated for a three day period as to the actual, factual, honest to goodness, non-debatable, better-believe-it-Bud grade of the coin, slab, verification sticker, verification of the verification sticker ver... (you get the idea). These professionals are such expert experts at being experts that they completed this unparalleld-in-professionalism process (including the 72 hour debate) in only 12 seconds! Then the coveted matching-color-of-original-slab label was affixed. Questions for seller:Question 1: How can I tell if I already have this specific coin or not since the stickers obscure the date? Answer: I have Blocked your bidding. You obviously don't appreciate the expertise and over 500,000 combined total years of professional grading that had gone into this item's verified, verified verification, ver... (you get the idea) history. Question 2: I don't see the Soopa-Doopa-Clear-CACCA-MACCA-Have-A_TIC-TACCA Color verification sticker. Why not? Answer 2: Now you know why this gem is offered at such a low price! Use the BIN, send it in yourself, and increase its value by another whopping 10.00. It only costs 50.00 for the service if they give you a sticker and 150.00 if they don't! And of course their iron clad service guarantee will refund the entire cost to you if you find them in error ((less the 300.00 paperwork and shipping fee it will cost you to send the error back to them, and they will have to keep the error specimen for their records). Question 2: I see the rotational alignment sticker says 0%. But I see the sticker uses the Ariel font. I thought all originals of this sticker used Times News Font? Answer: The Times News font is only on the older, and now more valuable silver colored editions of these stickers. It IS rumored the issuing of these brass-foil stickers will soon be terminated and replaced by copper-foil. These brass-foil-stickered slabs should escalate in price very rapidly. Question 4: The Eisenhower dollars have not been made now for 64 years. I have heard some had silver content in them. Do you know if this is one of them? Answer: All that perfect plastic, verified verifications, ver... (you get the idea) and you are worried about a little PM?!? Get a REAL life! Blocked from bidding! 
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Valued Member
United States
175 Posts |
This guy is a real tool eh....
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
No need to continue worrying about it, I believe MAC may be done. A dealer I know who deals with Alan says they aren't answering their phone or returning emails. One way to know for sure will be whether or not they show up at Central States next weekend. They are supposed to have table 1500.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1346 Posts |
It's missing 2 stickers: the blue Ford oval and the STP oval
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Valued Member
United States
392 Posts |
Hey Lee, That's the funniest thing I've ever read on this forum! Are you sure you never worked for Saturday Night Live? Thanks for the laugh.  Jack 
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CCF Advertiser
United States
1533 Posts |
My initials are ACK. All my coins are ACK approved. Send me yours and I'll sticker them for $25.
If I approve of them, that is. Forget CAC and MAC, be approved by ACK!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10047 Posts |
With the same money back guarantee minus 50.00 S&H fee?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
If anyone goes to Central States report back whether or not MAC showed up. I'd like to know.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4594 Posts |
They have a new (407)# listed on their website. Some time between Oct 2015 and Jan 2016 according to tbe wayback machine.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/
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Valued Member
United States
130 Posts |
Quote: That is one of the most hilarious things I've seen on this forum! 
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