What is the matter with JSA?
The auction house calls this item a historic document, and JSA puts their stupid, fat sticker on it. Defacing the item in my opinion. It's ridiculous. When is this baloney going to stop? It is amazing to me that the companies even offer this service.
Even Steve Grad, who is the lead authenticator for PSA, is on the record recently (speaking for himself personally) calling these ill-placed JSA stickers - quote - "awful".
PSA offers the same defacing service. The old GAI autograph authentication company did also but who wants a GAI sticker on their item now? I call it defacing, These companies call it enhancing? I don't think they would do it unless they thought it helped the piece somehow. But who knows. Funny how two different entities look at the same thing, huh?
I guess it's how you look at it. This looks bad in the sense that it totally distracts from the item and in my opinion will hurt the item in the long run. Others think differently.
I would not buy something with a sticker from one of these services on it, unless I absolutely could not find what I wanted in an unstickered version. It would have to be that rare. And then I would do everything in my power to remove the sticker. I think thin paper items like this are stuck forever with these stickers. Glossy photos might have a chance of being reversed. I don't know.
Does every piece of paper in the sports memorabilia market have to have one of these JSA or PSA stickers on the front of it?
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