The Fate/Future Of ICCS

Gone in about 10 years.. If they don't adapt to technology and change.

They are second tier already for all the reasons you mention dollarman.
But.
The cost is low, a mere fraction of the price of the US TPG's.
99.9% of them sell at no discount to their PCGS and NGC equivalents despite the difference in the cost of slabbing.
Wherever Canadian coins are sold to Canadian collectors, be it at B&M stores, coin shows, or online, they sell well.
As long as these positive factors exist they will survive and thrive.
But.
ALL things must pass.
Someday likely within your lifetime they will be gone, can't predict the reasons now, don't have a crystal ball.

I personally do not see ICCS lasting, due to the fact that it is for sale now, and what is for sale would be out of date equipment and the name of ICCS. I believe there is strong potential for a company to grow and develop into a Canadian-ized PCGS. Within the next 10 years, ICCS holders will start to fade, and become an anomaly within the next 25 years.

IMO with Brians background they could have embraced technology a long time ago. It is a small
family run business by choice.They offer an economical service and that is pretty much where
it ends. I think it was a brilliant business plan.
If you want to compete with PCGS/NGC you will have to offer similar services. How many collectors
of Canadian coins are willing to pay $30 plus per coin to have their coins certified? Those that are
have most likely done so.

I think coin grading services are all over priced. I don't even own a slabbed coin. If you are going to sell a top notch coin it might be worth getting certified. If your doing it for your personal collection then its a very expensive collection.

Devils advocate here <don't shoot me> but ICCS with not even a website for at least the last 10 years has negatively impacted the interest in the hobby in Canada. Just try googling ICCS to find out what the initials represent.

Yes Canada is a small country in terms of population and only a small fraction of us have any interest in old coins. Imagine if someone's interest is sparked how tough it must be to become familiar with what is what...a hobby where one pays for grading certification, but the grading certification cannot be trusted, and that's more or less an acceptable means of the naive paying more for a coin than it's worth, okayyyy? Also remember that the younger generation totally rely on the internet for information but have also grown up in an era where it's cautioned that anonymous message board comments are not always to be believed.

For those reasons and a few more, putting on my outside looking in glasses, yes I can see why the present situation of coin certification gets a shrug and on they go. For those of us who live nowhere near Toronto so we cannot check it out, ICCS also gives the appearance of the last of old school ways of how things used to be done, or perhaps I might say what appears to be the ol' boys club. For that reason I personally have had a huge concern that grading is fair all across the board. While PCGS might cost more, it also comes with a guarantee. If another $20 extra makes a difference to slabbing a coin, then it probably wasn't worth certifying.

In the 21st century it cannot be expected that information be shared word of mouth. Without a website presence ICCS essentially does not exist and cannot be trusted.

In the future, without a registry, I predict what's written on ICCS flips will become meaningless except for perhaps a small group of nostalga collectors.

My comments are not ntended to insult anyone whatsoever. My intent is to offer an alternate point of view.

I could never understand how they ever had a business without their company being on the internet, and the cost to grade coins is way too much anyway.