Its all about money and marketing.
When TPGs started out, the people I was around wondered, as many foreign collectors in other countries still do, why would anyone pay someone to do what you can do for yourself? Who were these self-proclaimed experts looking to make a new market and profit from coin collectors?
We joked that we should make million by offering a service to grade the graders job. We knew no one would ever fall for it.
Ah yes... the green bean. Marketing genius at work. Experts evaluating the same thing "experts" already looked at.
And now people pay more for the sticker being there.
buy.
Quote: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!
Posted 05/18/2018 09:47 am
