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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
I think Packs' point is that a dealer can't give you an LOA that says anything about provenance, so all it would be doing is adding a fourth-party (in the case of a slab) opinion about authenticity and is that really worth anything?
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And that falls back on reputation, as it generally does in all fields. And that requires some lengthy period of being right far more consistently than PSA. And handling problems much better. If other hobbies can manage it, I'm sure ours can, I just don't think it's possible to guess when that might happen.
And that's coming from a guy who would deliberately make the rounds of the dealers who knew barely anything hunting a "find" which for me at the time could be a couple P-F 48 leaf commons. A direct quote from that dealer - "They aren't in Beckett, so they aren't worth anything"