Are the autograph auth. folks absolute idiots?

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Leon

Why can't the authenticating companies just say something like . . . . Would it really be that difficult?

I just think there is a volume issue here and that enough customers don't care if their photos or cards have a sticker on the back, especially from a cost basis. If it only costs $8 to have the sticker but $30 to have the encapsulation and you have 15 photos or 16 1987 Topps baseball cards you'd like to get authenticated -- well, that's the real issue. And I don't see PSA/DNA, GAI or JSA giving up on those 15 photos or 16 cards at $8/per. Especially if there is a demand for it, which -- notwithstanding the views of the puritanical pre-war baseball card collector -- there clearly is.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

I just think there is a volume issue here and that enough customers don't care if their photos or cards have a sticker on the back, especially from a cost basis. If it only costs $8 to have the sticker but $30 to have the encapsulation and you have 15 photos or 16 1987 Topps baseball cards you'd like to get authenticated -- well, that's the real issue. And I don't see PSA/DNA, GAI or JSA giving up on those 15 photos or 16 cards at $8/per. Especially if there is a demand for it, which -- notwithstanding the views of the puritanical pre-war baseball card collector -- there clearly is.

yeah, that's us...the puritanical guys that don't like our items destroyed. I am about as puritan as Hugh Heffner (I wish )

[T206Collector]

Ha. I hope you know I was referring to all of us. We have very strict requirements for keeping our cards unadulterated. Erasures and water soaking are permitted by some, and all of us find wrinkle pressing, coloration, restoration, etc. to be taboo. etc. etc. Applying these standards to stickers on 8 x 10s of [insert modern player name here] is like apples and oranges, is my point.

[Leon]

I could see your point on my title and have changed it......I still hate those darn stickers though....and my only ones were done by JSA......

[bijoem]

aren't all autographs forgeries anyway?

who cares if there is a sticker on an a card that is MK already.

[Potomac Yank]

Some of you would have loved the autographed T206's within the case of a place called Fantasia back in 1990.

The owner of the store ... Dr Koos.

[Rich Klein]

With the initials D.D. Ah yes; great New Yawk area memories

I don't have them anymore -- but if you have SCD's from the 80's -- make sure to read their old ads.

Rich

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by bijoem

aren't all autographs forgeries anyway?

no, all autographs are real, I mean somebody had to sign them.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Leon

I still hate those darn stickers though.

ME T!!!