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TUMUSS

jbsteven

tumuss

there are not that many people who meet PCGS standards to be a grader. that is THE problem

ddbird

How many graders do they have anyway?

Russ

Click here for the complainer solution link.

Russ, NCNE

sTONER

JB where the hell have you been,, its been quiet around here except for the LAURA incident,,,STEVE

ElectricEye

How much time would the other graders have to spend breaking in the new person?

Placid

Pcgs did add another grader.

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TUMUSS

Russ

<< <i>However since you offer no real opinion to the question posed... >>



It's not that I don't have an opinion. It's simply that I don't feel like repeating it after posting it in the numerous other threads about the same thing.

Russ, NCNE

dragon

jb is correct, there are only so many people in the universe that actually can grade a coin correctly and consistently and want to earn over $200,000.00 per year for part time work.


Well.....to be serious, there are many, many, many, many people that are excellent and proficient graders, both dealers and collectors alike. Perhaps for one reason or another they just don't want to work for PCGS.

I was also told by a prominent dealer who took the pre-employment PCGS grading test that many dealers who take that test make one very critical mistake and fail..........

they grade the test coins like they think PCGS wants them to grade, many dealers purposely misgrade the test coins because they grade what they have been used to seeing over the years in PCGS holders for any given grade, when actually PCGS wants prospective graders to grade the test coins very conservatively, almost undergrade......that's exactly what I was told anyway.

When PCGS tells me they can't hire more graders, I think there's a LOT more to it than simply very few people are qualified.

TUMUSS

Thanks Dragon....That is very interesting.