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Posted By: John

Until they find out that is what is going on or until you reject the first card.

I'm curious if Kevin or whomever came up with this fantastic idea of grading graded cards has been reading the PCGS coin forums for the past several months.

It seems that there's a group of dealers that have formed a stickering service to sticker coins in PCGS/NGC/ANACS slabs that are "worthy" of their sticker. There was all sorts of hype about this venture and it was dumped on the masses and said to be for the collector and for the good of the hobby.......for a "modest" fee of course.

What a load of Crap. It's good for someone's wallet Period. It's just another (not even good) idea on how to prey upon the fears of collectors and a way to pry more money out of them for yet another service on an already professionally graded coin, which since it is holdered you cannot see the 3rd side, aka the Rim.

The professionally graded coin, much like the card, is backed by a guarantee. What about this almighty card sticker? What sort of guarantee is there? Is there cold hard cash behind it when an error occurs because they do occur.

I have no problem asking some of my friends, whom I know are knowledgeable about a specific series, about a card and sending them a link to the card or forwarding the scans. Those opinions are very valuable to me and all part of friendship.

Sending the card to a person or asking a dealer to send a card to a person so I can get an opinion on it before I buy it is just plain ridiculous.