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With all the talk about submission delays and various threads/replies about ways to change how the major grading services operate, all well intended and directed to improving things, if you were qualified to work at PCGS, would you??

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  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No. I wouldn't want to move to California.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I'm not qualified.
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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>if you were qualified to work at PCGS, would you?? >>



    No. I'm already half insane. Grading coins one after another all day long, every day, would quickly make it complete.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    No. The fat paycheck couldn't compensate for having to move, plus I hate grading coins.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • SportsModeratorSportsModerator Posts: 1,624 mod
    Not until they get official coffee mugs like the boys across the street

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,336 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It depends on the pay. Because of the VERY high cost of housing in the area near PCGS the pay would have to be very high. It would also depend on just what the workload was. This work is very tough on the eyes. How would you like to have to grade modern proofs hour after hour after hour. The burnout factor has to be very high.
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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    David Hall has many times asked me to sit in the corner of the grading room and play soothing music for the graders.

    The trouble is I spit when I sing, so it could lead to problems.

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  • tlhoytlhoy Posts: 2,204
    I'm not qualified. I'm colorblind.image
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes I would.
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I'd be in development and I'd be whipping the software into shape. That would increase effeciency, help to generate revenue, and increase customer satisfaction. Where I work now, we're responsible for inflow of roughly 30-40 million dollars increasing 110% yearly (and we're just a fraction of the company). We're also responsible for eliminating about 5 jobs+ so we're saving roughly $100,000+ yearly.

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  • RiffRaff1967RiffRaff1967 Posts: 405
    I would not - also because I would not want to live in Caly-forna (as aah-nauld would say).
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  • ElectricEyeElectricEye Posts: 2,354
    sure, as long as it was part-time
  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭
    I would work at PCGS, but not as a grader. Even if I could grade well enough, I think it would turn into a just a job and I would lose something on the collector side.
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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    why do you ask? is there an opening in the janitorial & toilet cleaning department?

    K S
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Karl--

    There's an opening for "Human Shield--Customer Service."


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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    hey, maybe they'll let me work in their "Bubble Gum Removal and Reclamation" division!

    K S
  • mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    i'd do it!


    i'd get to see coins other collectors only dream about.
  • puffpuff Posts: 1,475
    No..... I lived in California once, and there's just to much damn asphalt, and people to suit me!image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>i'd get to see coins other collectors only dream about. >>



    Yeah, monster boxes of silver eagles and cases of modern proof sets.

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  • SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭
    Yeah, monster boxes of silver eagles and cases of modern proof sets.

    Isn't that 95%+ of what is sent in for grading?
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    "Yeah, monster boxes of silver eagles and cases of modern proof sets."

    "Isn't that 95%+ of what is sent in for grading?"

    All you have to do is grade everyone of them PR70. Then as the market price for these collapses, you'll see fewer and fewer of them being submitted.

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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭
    Don't forget, the grading department gets to visit beautiful cities and work weekends at the shows.
    This year they get to go to Pittsburgh.image

    Joe
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  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>How would you like to have to grade modern proofs hour after hour after hour. >>


    If MadMarty would quit submitting...we wouldn't have these problemsimage
    I think after the initial honeymoon, and with a break for the occasional rare/really nice coin...I think it would be mind numbing...
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>why do you ask? is there an opening in the janitorial & toilet cleaning department? >>


    dorkkarl would HAVE to work in public affairs !!
  • ksteelheaderksteelheader Posts: 11,777 ✭
    Only if they would agree to let me know when Russ and Marty submit and give those coins to me for grading.......
  • LAWMANLAWMAN Posts: 1,274 ✭✭
    On special one-month sabbatical assignment under an assumed identity.
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  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Edit. OOOps, wrong thread.
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Why doesn't PCGS relocate to someplace less expensive, say Alabama (or India, Iraq, Bangladesh....image), and then they would be able to hire more graders? Makes sense to me.

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I could see Coin Cop working in the finger printing department.image
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  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    HepDaddyHall told me if I was over there, the graders would never look at the coins!
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  • johnkjohnk Posts: 394
    only if I can have free coffee image
  • NeptuneNeptune Posts: 2,221
    move to Californey? and leave my farm? hmmmmm only if the pay was OUTrageous, and that would be short term enough to save up some bucks and then move away from that place before another earthquake hits.
  • ealandgealandg Posts: 705
    I'm not qualified, but I would love to work there.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope, no interest in working for PCGS, NGC or any other grading service what so ever.

    I've done my time telling bosses what they want hear and not what the truth is or what I might think the truth is. When I grade coins I want to do it right, and being require to grade a coin every 30 seconds or whatever the job standard is would not please me. Furthermore I think that all customers should be treated equally, and I don't think that any grading service does that now.

    "Some pigs are more equal than others." That's way I feel about it.
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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    Nope not me, it would be like wearing a target bigger than the ones on Tonecoin's coinsimage
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  • NewmismatistNewmismatist Posts: 1,802 ✭✭


    << <i>I'm not qualified. I'm colorblind.image
    Glenn >>



    I'm sure there's an opening for you for grading IHCs and Lincolns
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