KSA giving SGC a run for its money on Authentication!
 

KSA is now authenticating autographs, joining SGC as opportunists of the moment to take your money and give you a 'qualified' opinion from people who may or may not have experience 'authenticating' autographs, IF you can find out just who these people are.

http://ksagrading.ca/autographauth.php

So they join the "race to the bottom" alongside all the other companies who can't tell a laser printed Ty Cobb or a misspelled Delahanty from a real one.

Coming onboard next will be KFC and IBM, they have about as much experience doing autographs as these companies do. Work for one of these companies and stay for a cup of coffee and you too can authenticate autographs.

Does anybody know who Mike Root is? Seriously, give me the Michael Root file. It says he was director of authentication for JSA for three years, but he was only on the JSA website with a bio for the last year, the first two years, nowhere to be found, and Larry Studebaker was "senior authenticator". Then Michael Root shows up in year three as director of authentication and Larry S. is just listed as authenticator. As of May, 2012, Michael Root was not listed and nowhere to be found on the expert page at the JSA website.

Does anybody have a COA with Root's name on it, signed by him? I am just curious. Where was his bio in years 1 and 2 if he was director of authentication at JSA, or even an authenticator????????

So-called Experts
 

Expertise is hard to come by in the first place, but the weed-like outcropping of experts is getting downright depressing.

Can someone enlighten me whether KSA is a reputable and reliable grading company at all? I've seen quite a bit of hockey (no surprise there) graded by KSA, but have no real sense of whether they are the Canadian PSA or the Canadian Gem....

Judging by the cards I've seen in their slabs, I'd say closer to the latter than the former.