PCGS- "Professional" Opinions Are Just That!

Even though pictures are inferior to having a coin in hand for grading, buying coins online doesn't make someone a fool or mean they're throwing money away. Trying to cherry pick higher value raw coins online can be a fools errand, but the online market is bigger than the in-person market at this point and it isn't because everyone is a fool

We seem to have posters claiming that they have never seen a Trueview image with the issues that I've raised (even someone claiming to have submitted "thousands" of world coins).
Yet I can find hundreds of Trueview images with the faults I've mentioned. As an example I was the underbidder on a 1953 florin (graded PCGS ms64 with gold shield) with slab number 27945966
Australia ebay item 22294090528 (ended 1st June 2018)
Fault 1The obverse image is very blurry (I can barely make out a die crack that is a particular die marker).
Fault 2The reverse image has cropped off much of the rim and made identification difficult.
So the stupidity of PCGS poor photography has cost the seller hundreds of dollars as that coin has a rim type worth at least 5 times as much as the standard rim (the large denticle variety). Only the winning bidder (besides myself) spotted the variety so the coin sold for $271 (worth at least $500). My bid wasn't that high (I already have a few so I wasn't bidding hard) but had the winning bidder not also spotted the variety it would have sold for as low as $41 (my bid was winning at that low level until the last minute).
What is the antonym of Troll? Seems to be the usual suspects defending PCGS and attacking posters such as myself and SuperPoacher74 for questioning PCGS infallibility.
I could also mention that PCGS has yet again cost another seller at least a few hundred (but more likely at least 20 large) when they recently slabbed another large denticle florin as the common small denticle (PCGS cert no 84966152). I picked it up for $125 (and as the large denticle variety worth $500+). Of course PCGS in their infallible way didn't even spend time studying the coin. It was struck with chrome dies (very rare to find that, occasionally find either obverse or reverse was chromed) and better yet the obverse die was the same die used to strike the super pricey specimens. So they missed that it was an even scarcer variety of the '53 specimen florin that I now own.
That is a fun thing about buying PCGS graded coins, most people only look at the grade and accept PCGSs word. But looking at the coin itself you can find a misidentified rarity going cheaply.

Ya'all missed the point. WE ALL buy coins by picture, I do as well, my LCS "If it ain't gold it ain't sold" philosopy does little for the basic coin collector. My point of emphasis was meant to be this(underlined to make the point):




No photo image will ever replace the human Mark 1 eyeball. Couple that with the knowledge of coins and specifics attributes and you have the winning combination. Unlessyou are lucky, or have "seen something" in a picture, to just purchase WITHOUT ability to return lands many in deep troubles. Personally, I will take those risks at times, if "I see something" or even as a hunch...but I don't lose my nut (Scrat) over not getting something I thought I saw. Return policies are nice, but not the precursor for a purchase , without them you should accept any and all the risks that may come if you purchase solely by pixed coins.

Can you post a link and not just the number, I can't find it. (had this happen several times now, I suspect ebay is starting to pull auctions once they end.)

How is there a minuscule amount of mistakes when I had no trouble in finding a coin with not one bad image but 2?
1/1000th of a percentage of photos taken (your figure) is 1 in 100,000, so to have 2 photos with 2 different faults on the same coin is 1 in 10 billion! PCGS has only slabbed 30 million coins so obviously your hyperbole was in overdrive. And I wish that there quality control was even a hundredth of that so dud images were only 1 in a thousand (I don't expect perfection but I do expect high standards).
That obverse IS blurry, that reverse WAS poorly cropped. As for sending off an email to Phil...shouldn't be necessary if their quality control was as high as their slabbing fees. They need to get organised and employ some quality control staff to eyeball every image that is sent out. Doesn't need to cost much if they have a couple of juniors do it (could even outsource eyeballing images to a low cost nation just like a call centre).
As for a minuscule amount of mistakes, I find them nearly everyday because I look at a few thousand images (that is PCGS slabs) every month and I usually purchased a couple of slabs each week. I love picking up coins for 10-20% of their true value because their graders cannot identify varieties and mintmarks.
And yes you could say I have an axe to grind if I keep finding such mistakes in what is supposed to be a premium product.

I feel quite confident that I can grade coins accurately enough for my own needs, sufficient enough to avoid having to buy slabbed coins.

I am very often tempted to give an on screen grading opinion for the benefit of others.
Nevertheless, a third party grader has a very distinct advantage that I don't. They get to examine the 'raw' coin in hand, with a 10x loupe.
I don't.

Therefore, my grading opinion is just that.
Another opinion.
And occasionally, I am proven wrong.

Also, same applies to Third Party Graders.
Nevertheless, I will occasionally disagree quite strongly with the slab grade, and I will say so, giving my reasons.

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We all need to grade accurately for our own needs. That is why grading threads are so essential here in the CCF.

No they don't, you just wish they did to keep trying to bash them

As I've said before I seriously doubt your error finding rate is the 100 percent you think it is. The fact that you can't understand that a small of percentage of anything any company does will have a mistake or a quality issue says all I need to know about your motives. Even the space shuttles had issues and nothing on earth has ever had more brain power or resources used in quality control. Nothing humans do will ever be perfect and you finding a handful of pictures doen't mean their pictures are bad or that they have bad quality control on the pictures.

I already told you how to get the pictures fixed and how easy it was and you went on a rant about how you shouldn't have to just taking a completely unreasonable position.