Anyone else read PCGS getting slammed in the latest issue of Coin World?

[the_Thing ®]

In the Letters to the Editor section? Seems many think PCGS's scheme of using the "First Strike" designation is not much better than the Home Shopping Networks scheme's.

[truthteller]

No, I don't recieve coinworld.

 

So, how's it going? Is everything A-OK in Amarillo? How do you like my The_Thing inspired threads so far? Pretty good, eh?

 

 

 

TRUTH

[the_Thing ®]

Sorry, but this is the U.S. coin forum. I feel I must stay on topic.

[truthteller]

" I feel I must stay on topic."

 

 

 

 

 

Since when?

 

 

 

 

TRUTH

[Hoot]

I agree that PCGS's marketing tactic is very bad in this case. It's just slimy shysterism and their definition of first strike sounds like lawyer double-speak. Horsepucky, but what else is new?

 

Hoot

[SilverDollarMan]

I have always bought either NGC (preferred) or PCGS, now I wont buy new PCGS coins, only NGC or raw. They screwed themselves.

[rexcat]

Yeah, I read that article and couldn’t stop laughing; all you are really getting is a coin from early in the production run. For all PGCS or any one for that matter knows when they get a mint dated box of SAEs is that they were made on or before the date on the box. How many hits a particular die has made when the box was filled no one has clue.

 

There could be SAEs that were the 50,000th coin to go though the die that was made in the first week of production in a first strike holder!!

 

With every new marketing ploy that I see PGCS come out with lately they just keep getting slimier and slimier. I feel that PGCS thinks they are at the top of the TPG heap and can do what ever they want and those the numismatic community should just bow to them, the all mighty ones.

[Boom]

Hype,yet another ploy to bring in the Almighty Dollar. Good night all.