I have a few questions for the grading companies and the auction houses... but they're either complicit or incompetent -or probably both.
1) How long to these grading companies spend on examining an autographed card on average?
2) who grades them?
3) what qualifications do they have?
4) Besides the forger, is anyone held legally responsible? How about for authenticating and grading a forged card?
I would think that the FBI should look at this and I'd probably start with SGC first since it looks like they've been authenticating most of these cards.
I'd also start looking at the auction houses and grading companies with a forensic financial investigator. My gut feeling is that these grading companies are giving preferential treatment to the auction houses over collectors and dealers because they're the ones giving the most amount of money. I also suspect that these grading companies are spending an inadequate amount of time on each card because either A) the company doesn't have a copy of the signature on file or B) they're behind on submissions.
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