$250.00 on PSA or James Spence?

[travrosty]

I am almost at a loss for words. someone likes a company for their 1 hour martinizing service, another because they shook his hand, another because the sticker goes here and not there. How about whether or not the ball is actually real and whether a company is actually good at determining such a fact?


You just assume they will get it right, so let's grade all the perks in making the decision. How about looking under the hood instead of seeing if the service dept. has free donuts sitting out?

[mr2686]

Mmmmmm Donuts!

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by travrosty

I am almost at a loss for words. someone likes a company for their 1 hour martinizing service, another because they shook his hand, another because the sticker goes here and not there. how about whether or not the ball is actually real and whether a company is actually good at determining such a fact?


You just assume they will get it right, so let's grade all the perks in making the decision. How about looking under the hood instead of seeing if the service dept. has free donuts sitting out?

+1

Two older stories that bear repeating,,,
D-e-l-e-h-a-n-t-y,,, I think most of you know what I am referring to.
The item in question sold in auction for only $30,000.

And one more,,, this story relayed to me by a very well known dealer,,,who allowed me to quote him by name on my web site but I won't use his name here.
two George Bush TLS's were in a large auction, which was authenticated by PSA.
Both were autopens using the same autopen pattern. Both received a PSA COA.
All they had to do was to lay one on top of the other to see that they were autopen signatures. The dealer who bought them did exactly that when he received his winning items. The auction house did make an immediate refund.

[travrosty]

Stuff like that is more prevalent than people think. That's why I have a hard time accepting the 'honest mistake' excuse. Anyone taking his or her time just can't make that error in my opinion.

JSA gave an auction loa to a preprint Mike Tyson 'signed' photo a few weeks ago at a big auction house. The piece sold and shipped out.

They just look at scans when giving out auction loa's. Why is it that an auction loa holds ANY water, if they are looking at a scan, thus not being able to determine a preprint?

I showed that glaring error in all its glory to try to underscore the fact that the system is broken but the autograph world just keeps on a spinning in its own crazy way. It's in an insulated cocoon totally detached from reality because there is too much money to be made the way things are being done right now by the people doing it to enact any reforms that would actually help the hobby. Where is a customer's bill of rights?