Removing ink from baseballs

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by DICKTOWLE

VERY GOOD POINT- QUESTION-- THE ISSUE IS TOO REMOVE FRAUD ON BASEBALLS. A PERSON SPENDS A LOT OF MONEY ONLY TO FIND ONE SIGNATURE IS BAD AND NEEDS THE OTHER TO BE GOOD- WOULD I NOT WANT TO HELP HIM OR HER TO HAVE THE AUTOGRAPH THEY WANTED.

Because you're "solving their problem" by doing something that, when placed in the wrong hands, could turn into yet another fraud. Say your customer decides to sell the Towlefied ball somewhere down the line. He sells it with full disclosure to somebody less reputable than himself. That person immediately sells it as an unblemished single-signed ball to an unsuspecting customer. The new owner takes it to PSA or JSA for authentication, only for them to find evidence of removal. Now Mr. Unsuspecting Customer is potentially out several hundred dollars because of the signature you removed. To reiterate from my previous posts, please don't add fuel to the fire. This hobby hardly needs another avenue to funnel future deceit.

[smokelessjoe]

Question: What if a big slab of goo is plastered across a Mantle signature, are we saying that it should not be removed?

Restorations, removals, replacements, legitimately happen all of the time with paintings, furniture, etc.. Should these services not be offered as well or are we saying that baseballs should be excluded from this category?