The all inclusive service
BaseballAbs
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Some of us would like a service that includes the following. Grading, Secure Plus, variety attribution and pictures all in one service. Quarter Collector and I would gladly pay $60 dollars for an all inclusive service like this. A package deal would be nice.
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An all inclusive service would be a great idea. At the least the coins variety should be listed on every slab. That would help the census takers and maybe we would get a accurate idea of what is a R-5 or borderline R-6.
Tom
1. there are a not insignificant number of combinations of services.
not everyone would want, nor need to pay for variety attribution.
The photo from SecurePlus could be supplied for a nominal additional charge, but TrueView is different and not everyone wants it nor wants to pay for it.
So, you've got, grading level, variety, and pictures as three things people might want or not want. There's 4 combinations of putting them together or leaving them out.
It's easier to offer them individually than package price them. Their likely reply is the package price will be the sum of the individuals.
2. It might be better to suggest a package price for frequent fliers.
They could update their online submission to include a "default template" that is user created with certain fields pre-filled (e.g. submission level, firststrike, trueview). After so many submissions of that template at the regular price, a discount kicks in thereafter.
<< <i>What is the normal cost for what you are looking for? >>
Way to much. That is why I don't do trueveiws anymore and you get my business Todd
<< <i>I never understood the no Trueviews with crossovers rule. Instead of having it all done at once I Currently send in a coin for crossover and its put in a brand new PCGS holder and shipped back to me. Then I have to send it in again so it can be cracked out of it's brand new holder, photographed, and put back in another brand new holder and sent back to me. I'm dizzy now
An all inclusive service would be a great idea. At the least the coins variety should be listed on every slab. That would help the census takers and maybe we would get a accurate idea of what is a R-5 or borderline R-6. >>
I didn't know that happened (no trueviews here, nor crossovers).
That may be a "procedures" and "man power cost" issue.
Their general procedures say "it might cross, it might not."
So, how can they ask you to sign a payment section of a form or ask you to issue a check for maybe it'll cross and we can true view it check for one amount or send a second check for a smaller amount if it doesn't cross?
My question to them relates to one suggestion made before:
Can we have better updates than "grades in" and "shipped"
If they changed the status to "crossed, grades in" and you had 1 business day to request a trueview(new application form needed for tueview request only online for graded coins still inhouse) and pay online before they ship it back.
(Ya see the complications?)
(Although, places often charge $x amt as a hold, and if it is less, then that's usually ok, right? So with charge cards, can they just require autorzation for up to $XX?? And if it doesn't TV then it's ok and just less money?)
(Ya see the complications?)
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I agree with you for the most part. They could refund the money if it does not cross. Most of us have a credit card on file with them. Or just offer the service to those who choose to cross at any grade.
<< <i>So you'd gladly pay $60 for something that's normally $89 ($45 S.P. Grading + $24 Attribution + $20 TV). Yeah, I suppose I'd be glad to have that kind of a discount, too, but I'm betting that unless your submission business is north of 5 figures per month (or some other "elite frequent flyer" level), it ain't gonna happen. >>
I would bet that there would be more than just myself willing to do this. Me alone, no they never would, but as a combined whole, wouldn't you? I'm betting if they did it right you would see a whole lot of action on the service and yes they would lower it I'm betting.
<< <i>So you'd gladly pay $60 for something that's normally $89 ($45 S.P. Grading + $24 Attribution + $20 TV). Yeah, I suppose I'd be glad to have that kind of a discount, too, but I'm betting that unless your submission business is north of 5 figures per month (or some other "elite frequent flyer" level), it ain't gonna happen. >>
30% off seems like a steep request. That request also has to go through several hands, not like it is one quick service.
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<< <i>30% off seems like a steep request. That request also has to go through several hands, not like it is one quick service. >>
Yup. Very process-intensive. Grading is probably the quickest part of the whole treatment. Attribution and photography both take longer and have to go through entirely different people. Secure Plussing is yet another person. No good way for them to optimize their workflow much.
<< <i>I would bet that there would be more than just myself willing to do this. Me alone, no they never would, but as a combined whole, wouldn't you? >>
I do my own attribution and pics, so I'm probably not the person to ask this.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution