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Pillar of the Community
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Refer a Friend to the PCGS Set RegistrySM and Earn Points Toward FREE Gradings! Nothing in coin collecting is more FUN than the free, interactive PCGS Set Registry. And if you need any incentive to include your friends, we'll give you a BIG one - FREE grades! Through June 30, 2009, every time you refer a friend who joins the Set Registry (new members only), you get 25 points. You'll also get 100 bonus points for the first and fifth referral, 250 bonus points for the tenth referral, and 50 bonus points for every referral after the tenth. For every 100 points you accumulate, you receive a FREE grade!* And with this program, you have the potential to accumulate LOTS of free gradings. Points are awarded when the person you refer has a single set reach 25% completion. This covers any competitive set your friend creates - it does not need to be the first set your friend creates after receiving the referral. The Grand Prize The Grand Prize for the most referrals during the program (runs through June 30, 2009) will be a 2008-W American Buffalo One-Ounce Gold Piece PCGS-graded Proof 69 - a perfect start for a new Registry set! Refer A Friend Today! To get started, login to My Set Registry. You'll see the links for Refer A Friend on your MSR home page. Click Information and you will have access to an email form which you can use to refer your friends to the PCGS Set Registry. The email has a special code embedded that will let us know your friends came from you. To track your referrals, you will go to My Referrals page. If you have your own website, you can use a PCGS Set Registry button to direct people to the Set Registry. The Refer A Friend Information page provides a Set Registry button which can be placed on your site. Friends that click on this link are sent to the Set Registry and are tracked in the same way as if you had emailed them. The Set Registry button will also work on MySpace, Facebook, ebay listings, forums, and anyplace else that allows HTML Edited by insideout
11/19/2008 7:06 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nothing in coin collecting is more fun than the PCGS Registry? I think someone has a pretty low opinion of what fun is.
You get points for referring someone, and you get more points as they add to their sets. Boy all they need now is for you to get points when those you refer refer someone else and we'll have the PCGS Registry as a Multi-Level Marketing scheme.
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11/18/2008 1:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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CONDER101, WELL SAID! I believe this is just another way for the largest coin grading company to get larger.SCHEME OR SCAM OR W/E NO THANKS. There is to much weight in the opinions of these companies AS IS AND I FOR ONE DO NOT THINK THE POWER THEY HAVE AND ARE GETTING IS IN ANYWAY ,HELPING US COLLECTORS EXCEPT TO RAISE THE COST OF THE SYSTEM AS WE KNOW IT!PS: JUST MY OPINION...
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Let's keep this here and discuss the topic. I'm not all that familiar with the Registry program and would like to learn all I can. Nothing wrong with dissenting opinion on this board ... now, if knives and guns come out, that's a different story.
It does sound very much like a multi-level marketing program to a point. Most MLM partcipants lose large amounts of money. I don't think that's what is going to happen here. Yes, PCGS will benefit but they are providing a market niche that seems to be widely accepted in the collecting community.
Personally I feel the Registry program is for the elite collector with large amounts of capital to invest in rare/high grade coins. Normal Joes and Janes won't catch those with endless funds. This referral program may offer the normal collector a means to level the playing field. That won't sit too well with who have spent money to achieve their standing.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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No it doesn't level the field at all. The "points" don't affect your score, you just accumulate them and cash them in for free gradings. And how many little guys are going to be able to refer a big bucks guy who will then actually build a registry quality set? Sure you can try and refer another small income collector, but many of them won't join because they don't feel they can compete, and most of them will not add enough to their sets to get you the extra points. I see this as a move by PCGS to inflate the number of warm bodies signed up for the Registry so they can promote how big an popular it is without having to actually pay out much.
insideout, Why remove the topic just because it gets some negative response? Is it somehow blasphemous to criticize PCGS?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Since the original relevant post has been removed, I will repost it since other may come along and be totally confused otherwise  Refer a Friend to the PCGS Set RegistrySM
and Earn Points Toward FREE Gradings!Nothing in coin collecting is more FUN than the free, interactive PCGS Set Registry. And if you need any incentive to include your friends, we'll give you a BIG one - FREE grades!
Through June 30, 2009, every time you refer a friend who joins the Set Registry (new members only), you get 25 points. You'll also get 100 bonus points for the first and fifth referral, 250 bonus points for the tenth referral, and 50 bonus points for every referral after the tenth.
For every 100 points you accumulate, you receive a FREE grade!* And with this program, you have the potential to accumulate LOTS of free gradings.
Points are awarded when the person you refer has a single set reach 25% completion. This covers any competitive set your friend creates - it does not need to be the first set your friend creates after receiving the referral.
The Grand Prize
The Grand Prize for the most referrals during the program (runs through June 30, 2009) will be a 2008-W American Buffalo One-Ounce Gold Piece PCGS-graded Proof 69 - a perfect start for a new Registry set!
Refer A Friend Today!
To get started, login to My Set Registry. You'll see the links for Refer A Friend on your MSR home page. Click Information and you will have access to an email form which you can use to refer your friends to the PCGS Set Registry. The email has a special code embedded that will let us know your friends came from you. To track your referrals, you will go to My Referrals page.
If you have your own website, you can use a PCGS Set Registry button to direct people to the Set Registry. The Refer A Friend Information page provides a Set Registry button which can be placed on your site. Friends that click on this link are sent to the Set Registry and are tracked in the same way as if you had emailed them. The Set Registry button will also work on MySpace, Facebook, ebay listings, forums, and anyplace else that allows HTML. |
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Forum Dad
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I find interesting that they tell you to put it in ebay listings. It could get your listing yanked if someone reports it. |
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Pillar of the Community
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No it doesn't level the field at all. The "points" don't affect your score, you just accumulate them and cash them in for free gradings. Makes sense now that I can see the original post.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Okay put it back in the post was just trying to save some heart burn
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Pillar of the Community
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insideout, Why remove the topic just because it gets some negative response? Is it somehow blasphemous to criticize PCGS? Far from being blasphemous. Due the fact we are each allowed our own opinion. I was wanting the post removed because of the fact it was being blasted right off the bat. Didn't want to see all the negative on the board is all. Quote:
Personally I feel the Registry program is for the elite collector with large amounts of capital to invest in rare/high grade coins. Normal Joes and Janes won't catch those with endless funds. This referral program may offer the normal collector a means to level the playing field. That won't sit too well with who have spent money to achieve their standing. I completely enjoy the pcgs regsitry even with only 1 set and 2 partial sets registered. I'm far from elite and enjoy looking at the elite collections. |
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Posted 11/19/2008 12:49 am
