[travrosty]

a lot of these auction houses trust abc or xyz for financial reasons. they believe they can get a higher bid because they believe the public will pay more for abc and xyz certs. what they don't understand is that they are perpetuating it by this belief if only abc and xyz certs can make it into any auction house listings.

but as long as they think they are getting the higher bids then they don't care.

personally a lot of these autographs would be more accurate if specialists had their own coa attached to it. but accuracy doesnt compute to $$$$$$$$$ in a lot of these peoples minds so we get stuck with abc and xyz.

a story recently of a person who had an elvis signature looked at by abc, they flunked it, but the elvis specialist, who is on staff there, liked it off of the record. they asked abc why they didnt have the elvis specialist look at it, and abc supposedly replied that they dont show the elvis guy every elvis autograph.

they why have the guy on staff? i think if we knew the % of autographs that the "specialists" on staff of these outfits actually looked at in comparison to all the submission of their specialties, it would probably be an eye opener.

If I ran an auction house i wouldnt use any authentication company who wouldn't tell the public just who exactly looked at any one autograph and i would require them to at least have exemplars given to me at least in reserve to back up their findings to show to any bidder who asked. if they can't do that, they why 'trust' them?

i would like to ask REA why they trust JSA?