Did you notice the "article" in Numismatic News on grading companies?

Longacre

In the most recent issue of Numismatic News (the one with the article about the new Jefferson nickel on the cover), they have an "article" on the latest survey of the third party grading companies and their rankings. However, the article is buried in the back of the paper, and it is no more than a paragraph long. In addition, it is not really an article per se, but a brief item that basically gives the web address to go to in order to view the survey results. One would think that the hobby's opinion of the TPGs is a significant enough item to warrant a further analysis (or at least give a summary of the rankings in the article and provide more content). It seems that NN gets a lot of its advertising from the third party graders, so maybe that was a factor in their decision not to write a full blown article on the survey results (or maybe, thinking optimistically, NN knows that a survey sometimes is not done scientifically and provides inaccurate results). Did anyone else notice this?

291fifth

The survey received the attention it deserved from NN.

sliderider

See my thread here concerning the PNG survey of grading services. I think it's a tad biased, just like most people here. It's pretty much worthless because there are glaring inaccuracies in some of the statements they make.

dorkkarl

<< <i>One would think that the hobby's opinion of the TPGs is a significant enough item to warrant a further analysis >>

i think tpg's don't mean a lot to the HOBBY.

now , if you mean the BUSINESS'S opinion of tpg's, that's a different story, but numismatic news is not a BUSINESS paper, it's a hobby rag.

such an article deserves little attention in a HOBBY journal, imo.

K S