PCGS GRADING

MrOrganic · March 19, 2015 4:39AM

hI,

I am an authorized dealer with PCGS and I never charged anyone to put their coins through grading using my account. What do you think is a fair price to charge someone??

Thank you in advance!

illini420 · March 19, 2015 5:12AM

I've never charged folks anything more than I pay. I figure I have the first chance to either buy their freshly graded coins or take them on consignment and that is enough compensation for me.

perfectstrike · March 19, 2015 12:06PM

My favorite dealer even lets me fill out the forms. Since my coins are already in the proper flips, all they need is labels and I pay for shipping, submission and sales tax.
David

BG · March 20, 2015 1:09AM

<< <i>I've never charged folks anything more than I pay. I figure I have the first chance to either buy their freshly graded coins or take them on consignment and that is enough compensation for me. >>

What if the person has no thoughts on selling any of the coins at the time of submission or even when grades post? Still no charge?

illini420 · March 20, 2015 2:48AM

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<< <i>I've never charged folks anything more than I pay. I figure I have the first chance to either buy their freshly graded coins or take them on consignment and that is enough compensation for me. >>

What if the person has no thoughts on selling any of the coins at the time of submission or even when grades post? Still no charge? >>

That's a fair point. I don't offer to take submissions from the general public and really only submit coins for friends and current customers I know well. Even then, sometimes my friends say they aren't thinking of selling anything, but if they get grades either too high or too low, things change. For example, I sold a friend from the coin club a couple of World coins for $75 each. He wanted to keep them for his collection, but wanted them graded first. Not a problem. But when they each came back a couple of points higher than we both thought, one of them being a top pop, he let me sell them when I told him I knew I could now get him over $1000 each for the coins.

However, if I were to start sending in coins for the general public, I probably would need to consider adding on an extra charge for my time in helping with the submission. Probably a few bucks extra per coin would be enough I guess. Of course, PCGS dealers already get a small discount on grading fees so maybe that difference alone would be enough to compensate for that effort. That way, the customer pays exactly what is stated on the PCGS forms, while the dealer can keep the difference depending on how much their discount is??

winky · March 22, 2015 8:46AM

Smart dealers would not charge for this. It will give them the respect they deserve later on.

rainbowroosie · March 22, 2015 12:52PM

Send regular customer coins at cost. Others add two or three bucks a coin.

ToughCOINS · March 24, 2015 2:56AM

If I need to do a dedicated submission for a customer who doesn't want to wait for the next submission of my own coins, I charge normal grading, shipping and insurance rates.

If I'm already submitting a package of my own, the customer's coins go along for the ride at the reduced rate, and benefit from free shipping.

winky · April 2, 2015 4:45AM

This is the only mistake I have made. Dealers should charge cost to customers for PCGS grading and should not be free which is what I said before. Sorry about that, but at least I admit the only mistake I have made.

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