@TheWinstonDouble

7 months ago

I hear fast graders do 1,000 coins a day which I thought was nuts. Nobody is grading perfectly at 21 seconds per coin. NOBODY. That's why they have multiple people in an assembly line type situation grading them. Odds of one guy getting it wrong are a lot higher than all 3 missing it. But say the odds of a misgrade by one guy are 6% you'd think through 3 people that would drop to 6% of 6% of 6% which is like a 0.02% magin of error. Basically nothing. But thats an average. Sometimes you have a tough to grade coin. Their magin of error on a very typical looking MS-64 white morgan might be 1%. However for a dime thats unc but toned black as all heck with hidden cleaning marks in one part of the field, their chance of missing be 70% on that particular coin if they don't catch it at the right angle. So now over 3 people you're still at a 34% chance of a misgrade. So 1 in 3 coins like that might be wrong. I've seen coins tone so dark that a proper grading lamp and bulb (100W incandescent) do not show the light cleaning lines underneath. (Direct sunlight is good for that situation.) So it'd be nice to have something that doesnt even have to have a grading algorith built in. Just something that can scan and digitally present to you all of the flaws so the grader can make a fully educated decision. Nobody has to lose their job, they just need better tools. It's a joke that the company that brags about "maximum guarantee, liquidity etc." says that "we make too much money off of getting it wrong with all the resubmissions and crackouts, why would we improve our service?" Why are people still paying for this? It's enabling them. I get if you're a dealer I get it, but for the average collector... you have power to change their minds by withholding your submissions until they do something to objectively grade.

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