Question about PSA/JSA "Guarantees"

[toybulldog]

Did you see any of the autographs you are labeling fake and real signed in person? If so, which ones? If not, with all due respect, your opinion as to everything you did not see signed is just an opinion, same as any TPA opinion is just an opinion. Unless I want to collect only what I personally saw signed, I have to rely on opinions. Since all we are really dealing in most of the time is opinion, whether an item "really really" was signed or not is unknowable and as such is entirely irrelevant to the market. Buyers like the TPA opinions. Buyers respect TPA opinions. Buyers pay for the TPA opinions. They don't care about my opinion. Or yours, unless you are a TPA issuing a LOA.

Must disagree, you can compare your PSA vintage signed Holyfield to a screenfull (or two) of vintage Holyfields and see there is absolutely no resemblance. Nothing supports it.

If I market that Holyfield signed card raw I might get someone to take a risk for $10. In the slab I can get a multiple of that all day, every day. Is the one in the slab forged or real? I didn't see it signed, so I don't know. But if PSA is willing to slab it, as a seller I really don't care.

Don't think you will get didley squat from someone who knows boxing autographs, they will immediately see you are full of it. Do believe you could get something from a novice collector with the TPA false value added to it but is that something to be proud of?

Mark Ogren
Schenectady, NY