Opinions about COA's at shows.

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

These COAs they sell at shows... do the people who issue them actually see the item being signed? Or is it "a matter of trust?"

A few years ago, there was an autograph show at Citi Field. PSA/DNA provided authentication services. If memory serves me right, the way it worked was that once you got your autograph and left the area, you'd go to another table, show the receipt for your autograph, and the representative would look at the item, place a hologram sticker on it, and enter the information in the computer - but the representative did not actually see the items being signed.

Is this method still done, or was what I saw not the norm?

I remember them doing the exact same thing. I mean, what would stop someone from having something signed, and then taking a forgery over to be "authenticated". They then have a bad one that's already passed, and a good one they could easily sell without a sticker. Weird.