I'm not sure how you could ever feel comfortable with those cards when you can even see a pic of what they cut up. Mauer is a perfect example. There was someone making a ton of bogus Mauer game used jerseys in his first few years in the Majors. The team had blank jerseys they could customize as rosters changed over the course of the season. Someone took several of these and customized them with Mauer's name and number. The tagging on these jerseys were wrong for guys on the roster at the beginning of the season. Even the size was wrong. You would see Mauer "gamers" in 48, 50, and 52 for the same reason (all with wrong tagging of course). But they went to auction houses and their "experts" issue a COAs. Good enough for plenty of people, especially if you're a card company picking up whatever is needed for a card set. Who's going to question you? Would would ever know? Like I said, you can't even see what they cut up.
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