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"PCGS" Direct Submission Privileges This is for the fee based program? Any limit of submissions? Quote:
"PCGS" Free Quarterly Grading Specials. This is for one coin per quarter? Type of their choice? Like right now they are offering 1 gold coin not exceed $1500 Who decides if the coin is worth more? ExampleI send a $50 Gold Eagle proof that I paid $700 for and gets graded Proof 69, now the value exceeds $1500 ? Then next quarter say, a foreign coin or modern clad? What might the categories be? Quote:
"PCGS" One-Year subscription to the online PCGS Population Report SM. Might be interesting. Quote:
"PCGS" 10% off PCGS supplies. Probably won't use. Quote:
"PCGS" Join for only $49 US or $69 Intl $49 sounds good to get 4 coins a year to send for free. And if I want to send more just pay the going rate. I will be really grateful to who takes on this topic, because I did ask a lot. Maybe you can cut and paste the whole topic then answer next to the questions. Thanks again for your help, I guess I could call them direct.  NOW I THINK OF THAT ! Edited by adco1149
02/15/2010 12:35 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'll take a stab at a few of your questions. Quote:
"PCGS" Direct Submission Privileges.
This is for the fee based program? Any limit of submissions? Fee based with no limits. Schedule of fees listed on their website. Quote:
"PCGS" Free Quarterly Grading Specials.
This is for one coin per quarter? Type of their choice?
Like right now they are offering 1 gold coin not exceed $1500
Who decides if the coin is worth more? Example:
I send a $50 Gold Eagle proof that I paid $700 for and gets graded Proof 69, now the value exceeds $1500? One coin per quarter with you paying shipping both ways. You set the current market value of your coin. Any modern $50 GAE will be ok as per your example. Categories will vary so figure 2 or 3/year, not 4 freebies unless you collect a wide variety of coins that need slabbing. Quote:
"PCGS" Join for only $49 US or $69 Intl
$49 sounds good to get 4 coins a year to send for free.
And if I want to send more just pay the going rate. The going rate is not bad but if you have numerous coins you want to slab now, get the Platinum Membership for $199 with 8 free submissions. |
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Thanks Bherring1964,
If you join at the platinum level, do you get
8 free every year that you re-up.
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Bedrock of the Community
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If you join at the platinum level, do you get
8 free every year that you re-up.
Yes - 8 per year. You can even renew your membership a month or two early if you want another 8 submission voucher before the year has expired. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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But the 8 freebees have to be used at the same time I believe.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Yes - all 8 coins must be in one submission.
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Pillar of the Community
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Unless they've changed their policies, the Platinum submissions have another advantage. They are usable for foreign coins, gold coins, crossovers, and any other eligible coin valued at I think $3000 or less. You need to use a different submission form for each major category of coin and must send them all in at once.
There is one exception to the "all at once" provision. I signed up for Platinum membership at the Long Beach show one year but only had 3 coins with me ready for submission. They let me submit those coins right there at the show, then I used the other 5 submissions for a separate mailing later.
By the way, the quarterly specials aren't quite the bargain they seem. By the time you pay shipping both ways a "free" grading ends up costing $25 or more. Your per-coin cost comes down a bit if you include the free submission in the same package with a separate regular submission.
There is one requirement that especially bothers me. If you send two types of submissions in one package (say, regular tier coins with some economy tier coins) you must pay separate return shipping for each type. That means two $15+ charges for coins that PCGS could just as easily returned in a single carton for a single shipping charge.
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02/19/2010 12:00 pm
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Its all about the TPGs getting max amount for the minimum amount of service they provide. We ,as collectors have let them implement policies that let them operate in a win/win situation while not providing the full services that we need and expect. They are unlike any other business or companies in which the customer is always right and they get what they want for their money. An example of that type of arrogance is now in the daily news and it has to do with Toyota.
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Bedrock of the Community
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An example of that type of arrogance is now in the daily news and it has to do with Toyota. You mean the arrogance of the owners of GM and Chrysler demanding that Toyota come before them and explain why they had to do a recall? (Oh and did you notice that Chrysler did a recall of some 350,000 vehicles themselves this morning?) The big three automakers have had to be FORCED to do many recalls themselves. The fingerpointing at Toyota is the pot calling the kettle black. |
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the only reason Toyota is such a big deal is because this is the first recall they have had in something like 35 years, even though this recall is huge because it could make your car go screaming at 100MPH down the road with nothing you can do. Everyone seems to expect it from the other makers especially the big 3 and now that the Govt has their hand in the cookie jar of GM they are playing it out pretty heavily
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I'll take "SHIFT IT INTO NEUTRAL" for $200, Alex. That's a mechanical action, not subject to electronic control.
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That's a mechanical action, not subject to electronic control.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but if I understood some of the reports properly, it's all electronically controlled, regardless of the mechanical motion of the shift lever. Some have said that they can actually physically put the shifter in reverse and the car will just keep plowing forward. I'll have to find the data because there have been a lot of "stories" about what will and won't happen. |
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