Coach's Corner - The Perfect Crime?

[Vintagedegu]

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[sports-rings]

CC has become the dumping ground of several reputable auction houses looking to dispose of their obviously bad material and sigs that flunk PSA/DNA & JSA. He cited one well-known auction house specifically (that I won't mention here) that routinely consigns items there almost every month.

I thought reputable auction houses should not consign their own items, or if they do, they should put that in the description (they never seem to do that). I had a great opportunity to buy a championship ring from the son of a well known player and then Heritage scooped in and purchased the ring from him. Later on, it was in their auction but no mention that they owned the ring.

[RichardSimon]

"CC has become the dumping ground of several reputable auction houses looking to dispose of their obviously bad material and sigs that flunk PSA/DNA & JSA. He cited one well-known auction house specifically (that I won't mention here) that routinely consigns items there almost every month."

Since when does well known equal reputable in the auction house business?

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by Vintagedegu

This is close to what I've been thinking lately. Basically, what are the odds of a) so many rare vintage signatures being consigned each month, and b) basically all of them poor fakes?

Occasionally they might have some modern stuff from legit sources, so I'm looking at big-name vintage only, the Ruths and Mathewsons and Clarksons and nonsense like that. What are the odds of being wrong almost 100% of the time, for years? I don't have any hard numbers, but anecdotally speaking it seems that way; some absurdly high number. Authentication via dartboard would yield more accurate results.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were better odds of being correct every time than of being wrong all the time, particularly with people experienced in the memorabilia business.

I don't know exactly what's going on over there, but it sure is weird.

Criminal conspiracy is what's going on.

The sheer volume and percentage of fakes nullifies any possible "oops, bad opinion" defense. A monkey with a 50/50 chance of picking good/bad would have a higher accuracy than they do.