JSA........Seriously!....A Monkey's Autograph

[GrayGhost]

Come on

[mr2686]

It must be a fake...it looks nothing like this one!!

[Runscott]

If there wasn't a monkey in the photo, I would have thought it was Derek Jeter's signature.

[Lordstan]

When the thread about PSA and JSA being the greatest thing for this hobby was active, I was going to post this as an example of how ridiculous they could be. About the same time a friend sent me a link to a Hauls of Shame article about the same item listed above, as well as others that are similar. I'm not a big supporter of HOS, so I didn't post it, but it is mostly an interesting read.
This is the exact type of crap I referred to in the other thread. IMHO, stuff like this tarnishes their credibility and serves to just chip away at the public confidence.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

IMHO, stuff like this tarnishes their credibility and serves to just chip away at the public confidence.

I think their customers are happy with things the way they are: slips, slabs, re-sell value. Whatever 'confidence' that particular part of the public has of them, is in very little danger, in my opinion.

The rest of us never had any confidence in them to begin with (I do realize that "us" doesn't include most autograph collectors on this board, so please don't think I'm making assumptions), or it evaporated after our first look at a Babe Ruth autograph signed on a ball that was created after he died.

[Lordstan]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I think their customers are happy with things the way they are: slips, slabs, re-sell value. Whatever 'confidence' that particular part of the public has of them, is in very little danger, in my opinion.

The rest of us never had any confidence in them to begin with (I do realize that "us" doesn't include most autograph collectors on this board, so please don't think I'm making assumptions), or it evaporated after our first look at a Babe Ruth autograph signed on a ball that was created after he died.

I guess you're right. It's just disappointing that the main focus seems to be resale value and not getting it right.

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

I guess you're right. It's just disappointing that the main focus seems to be resale value and not getting it right.

Are you sure it isn't right?? I thought Travis was back by the tread title.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

I guess you're right. It's just disappointing that the main focus seems to be resale value and not getting it right.

There are plenty of other companies that face the same choices. For instance, newspapers - the 'Seattle Times' publishes absolute crap nowadays, and has loads of typos and horrible writing that would never have made their paper twenty years ago. They grab stuff off the wire that is late, irrelevant, incorrect. Their election reporting is frequently flat-out incorrect - I had to write in and tell them how caucuses work (and they corrected their story in the online version). But if they did what it takes to 'get it right', they couldn't stay in business. I pay 75 cents every morning to read the rag while drinking my coffee, but I keep paying.

[rigginsfan]

Great photo too