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Originally Posted by sports-rings
My experience with notifying auction houses about fake championship rings has been that about 2/3 of the auction houses appreciate my help, take my claims seriously, and remove the items from their auctions. If some want a second opinion that's fine, usually this results in the items being removed.
About a third of the auction houses go into denial, or refuse to do anything. I won't rat them out today, but I have in the past.
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I have only had one bad personal experience, and I'm still hoping it was an anomaly, but I think I'm in denial. My experience gave strong evidence of the following:
- they will placate the customer to a point
- they rely solely on the opinion of the authenticators
- the man behind the LOA does not care if the autograph is actually authentic - they are trying to write as many LOA's as possible, and if it will pass the consumer, they will authenticate it
- so the obvious conclusion is that the auction house also does not care if an autograph is authentic or not
- i.e-they are selling COA's, not collectibles