Coaches corner issues disclaimer

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

You cannot seriously think this is their attempt to "tackle problem authentications" can you? It's humorous, given their past and present embracing of problem authentications and authenticators, but surely there are better ways for you to get your own digs in at JSA than to suggest that CC is cleaning up their game with this item description?

I think everyone who frequents these boards knows that you have a beef with JSA, but I don't think lowering yourself to the level of giving CC a pat on the back will gain any respect from anyone who is familiar with their practices. Personally, knowing your experience with boxing autos, I'd rather hear what you think of the Ali sig itself, as I have never felt comfortable with my own ability to judge his signatures.

Maybe Travis can opine the below Muhammad Ali autographs that are presently listed on the Coach's Corner auction site headed by Scott Malack and Lee Trythall.

http://www.myccsa.com/Search.aspx?Se...muhammad%20ali

[Mr. Zipper]

This is precisely why I scoff at the notion that the TPA bashing sites are doing some sort of service to the community.

What the TPA bashing sites do is offer aid and comfort and justification to those who wish to discredit TPAs for their own dark motives.

I recently contacted a scuzzbag ebay seller that was offering a ton of highly suspect material and asked him about his authenticity guarantee. In his response he bashed the TPAs and provided links to Autograph Alert and one of Travis' boxing stories.

Keep up the good work, Travis! These are your fans. You are really helping!

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by Mr. Zipper

This is precisely why I scoff at the notion that the TPA bashing sites are doing some sort of service to the community.

What the TPA bashing sites do is offer aid and comfort and justification to those who wish to discredit TPAs for their own dark motives.

I recently contacted a scuzzbag ebay seller that was offering a ton of highly suspect material and asked him about his authenticity guarantee. In his response he bashed the TPAs and provided links to Autograph Alert and one of Travis' boxing stories.

Keep up the good work, Travis! These are your fans. You are really helping!

and what is my dark motive?

you guys are playing an either/or game.

either we have tta, stat, morales OR we have psa/jsa. that is the shortsightedness.

If you knew me, you would know that i am not an either/or person. I set a high bar, and if psa/jsa can't make it over that bar, just them being supposedly the best we got doesnt cut it. If they were good enough, then i wouldnt care. but you dont know me, you are using criticism of psa/jsa to further your own agenda against morales, stat, tta, aau, whoever.

again, i dont care if people are against them, good for them. i dont use criticism about morales, tta, aau, to further my views against the big two, you know why?

I don't need any further ammunition, they shoot themselves in the foot already, and I show proof, every time i show proof. and the rebuttal to this proof is usually the following.

"well cc and tta, and stat, and aau, and morales are horrible."

well what does one have to do with the other????????

nothing, that is what. but people cant face reality so they make it an either/or proposition.

All my stories are true so if someone uses them, they are using a true story.

[travrosty]

well, that one ali has a spence coa with it, so should i call it good or bad? must be good it has spence certification? see how the whole thing is a bunch of baloney, we cant figure out what is what anymore?

thats why a total scrap/reboot is in order.

dr. seuss wrote a story about star bellied sneeches. go read it and then you will know what the state of autograph hobby is in these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3yJomUhs0g

people collecting money to put a star on and a star off and the only guy who makes out in the end is the companies putting the stickers on, because what does a star on your autographed photo mean anymore when they are just slapping them on, authenticating through the frame, authenticating laser prints, authenticating 40,000 photos in a few days that ends up to 3 or 4 seconds per photo, authenticating a sal bando by glancing at it for 4 seconds and not even taking the photo into their own hands, authenticating a 150 year old autograph with no known exemplars to compare against, then pull their cert when they are embarrassed because they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar?

but they got the money so that's all that matters. Where is the customer bill of rights? where is the guarantee? where is anything? All they have to hang their hat on is that they claim to be better than morales or aau, or stat? That is some bragging rights. How about being good instead?


being opposed to something that sucks doesnt mean i am endorsing something else that sucks, but you need it to be that way, so i get slimed that way.

someone please tell me how they authenticated the thomas sayers autograph with no known exemplars, then i will apologize and say i was wrong and you are right. Just explain Thomas Sayers autograph, not all the other ones, just the Sayers. How could they issue the certs when there aren't any known exemplars of sayers signature and they knew it and still certed it anyway? answer that, which you won't do, but you will mention morales or aau again and that is suppose to be an answer?

[GrayGhost]

The issue here is you and Chris and David until recently are always trying to one up each other, and say this huge value "psa or Jsa Mistake" holds more weight than dozens of other Ruth's by the other guys. Hey, here's a newsflash to people who I FEEL ARE TRYING TO HELP...ALL THE MISTAKES CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT.

I just don't see why you guys can't get on the same page. I think one issue I see is Chris honestly has so much faith in JSA and PSA, that he wants to turn a blind eye to their issues. And Trav, you seem to want to "just attack the big guys".

How about admitting this whole thing is a BIG PROBLEM? Honestly, I don't see how anyone can trust ANYTHING ANYMORE. So many collectors have items that they may not trust anymore. We see posts on here of people buying things w alphabet letters, and now being nervous. Its a real hard situation, but the constant one upping and bickering is NOT helping.

BTW Trav, the Sayers thing is PATHETIC AND RIDICULOUS. you can't say " We have no reason to believe its not authentic" and such, or that something is, when there is nothing to compare to. I mean, I could write Pontius Pilate on a piece of paper w an old pen, and w/out exemplars, someone prob would pass it.

Scott Roberts.

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

The issue here is you and Chris and David until recently are always trying to one up each other, and say this huge value "psa or Jsa Mistake" holds more weight than dozens of other Ruth's by the other guys. Hey, here's a newsflash to people who I FEEL ARE TRYING TO HELP...ALL THE MISTAKES CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT.

I just don't see why you guys can't get on the same page. I think one issue I see is Chris honestly has so much faith in JSA and PSA, that he wants to turn a blind eye to their issues. And Trav, you seem to want to "just attack the big guys".

How about admitting this whole thing is a BIG PROBLEM? Honestly, I don't see how anyone can trust ANYTHING ANYMORE. So many collectors have items that they may not trust anymore. We see posts on here of people buying things w alphabet letters, and now being nervous. Its a real hard situation, but the constant one upping and bickering is NOT helping.

BTW Trav, the Sayers thing is PATHETIC AND RIDICULOUS. you can't say " We have no reason to believe its not authentic" and such, or that something is, when there is nothing to compare to. I mean, I could write Pontius Pilate on a piece of paper w an old pen, and w/out exemplars, someone prob would pass it.

Scott Roberts.

I just got done saying the whole thing is a big problem.

But for anyone to do in any other private business what they did with the sayers auto is misrepresentation or worse and here comes the knock on the door, but not with autograph authentication, anything goes.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

The issue here is you and Chris and David until recently are always trying to one up each other, and say this huge value "psa or Jsa Mistake" holds more weight than dozens of other Ruth's by the other guys. Hey, here's a newsflash to people who I FEEL ARE TRYING TO HELP...ALL THE MISTAKES CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT.

I just don't see why you guys can't get on the same page. I think one issue I see is Chris honestly has so much faith in JSA and PSA, that he wants to turn a blind eye to their issues. And Trav, you seem to want to "just attack the big guys".

How about admitting this whole thing is a BIG PROBLEM? Honestly, I don't see how anyone can trust ANYTHING ANYMORE. So many collectors have items that they may not trust anymore. We see posts on here of people buying things w alphabet letters, and now being nervous. Its a real hard situation, but the constant one upping and bickering is NOT helping.

BTW Trav, the Sayers thing is PATHETIC AND RIDICULOUS. you can't say " We have no reason to believe its not authentic" and such, or that something is, when there is nothing to compare to. I mean, I could write Pontius Pilate on a piece of paper w an old pen, and w/out exemplars, someone prob would pass it.

Scott Roberts.

Scott, I have never written or verbalized that PSA or JSA is perfect. They have made mistakes. Honest mistakes. We all make mistakes. We are all human.

I made a point a before about there being approximately 800 Mickey Mantle autographs on Ebay that are either PSA or JSA certed. I scanned as many as I could and didn't see one that was incorrectly authenticated. I don't see any Morales, TTA, or Stat Authentic certed Mickey Mantle autographs on Ebay, because that crap gets removed when reported.

I don't turn a blind eye to anything, but I'd rather deal with a company that makes honest mistakes than with someone who gives blanket authentication to anything that crosses their desk.

There's all kinds of problems with the hobby whether it be grading or autographs, that's just the way it is. The grading of cards and the authentication of autographs are done by humans. Do you know of any human beings on this earth that are perfect? I don't.

[thetruthisoutthere]

This is the Coach's Corner auction that started this thread. What a bunch of hypocrites over there at Coach's Corner. But I'm sure they'll take their 20% commission from the sale of that authentic Ali signature. Hypocrites!!!

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[thetruthisoutthere]

Very revealing, Travis. If that Spence certed Ali was incorrectly authenticated I'm sure you would have commented, but since that Ali is authentic, you don't want to say in public "that it is good."

To the members of Net54, that JSA certed Ali is 100% authentic, but Travis doesn't dare offend his friends by stating in public, that it is in fact, an authentic signature of Muhammad Ali. One thing is for sure, and that is, if that JSA certed Ali was incorrectly authenticated, Travis would have been all over it.

Your feeble attempt to lend credibility to Coach's Corner is pathetic at best.

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by thetruthisoutthere

Very revealing, Travis. If that Spence certed Ali was incorrectly authenticated I'm sure would have commented, but since that Ali is good you don't want to say in public "that it is good."

To the members of Net54, that JSA certed Ali is 100% authentic, but Travis doesn't dare offend his friends by stating in public, that it is in fact, an authentic signature of Muhammad Ali. One thing is for sure, and that is, if that JSA certed Ali was incorrectly authenticated, Travis would have been all over it.

Your feeble attempt to lend credibility to Coach's Corner is pathetic at best.

i am trying to say is that it doesnt matter anymore when the procedures they are suppose to follow are nonexistant.

gai was equal to psa and before they went crazy authenticating anything under the sun, if someone would have said they were really screwing up, a lot of people would have defended gai, because they have a lot of stuff certed by gai and they dont want those certs to be worthless.

but eventually even the blind can see that gai rubber stamped stuff, so they can't defend gai anymore. it's even fashionable to go on the anti-gai bandwagon, well, its easy to do that when they are bankrupt, no longer in business and an easy target. but to people that say it early, they would have gotten hammered because it was fashionable to defend gai due to the interest collectors had in gai remaining credible and still in business offering the precious golden certs that make a collection real, right?

when these other big companies turn the corner into gai territory, then watch the people jump off the bandwagon and say "i had a funny feeling about them all along" or "i knew it"

They will be johnny come lately's, and the people who really knew it all along take abuse, and wont get the credit for trying to alert the public ahead of time.

there are some that loved gai and then love psa or jsa, whichever is the most popular at the moment, they are a 49'ers fan in the 80's, a cowboys fan in the 90's and a patriots fan in the 2000's.