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qualitycards.com"Jay/Qualitycards.com,
I have to agree with shellyjaffe. Within the proper context of the article, "the company" can only mean PSA/DNA. Also, there is a reference to "forged items" by Joe Orlando. Clearly, the article is about forged autographs, not forged baseball cards. The "eight million" figure is therefore, seriously misleading.
Perhaps the Associated Press writer (Colleen Long) misunderstood."
MW - No doubt the article is misleading. Just wanted to clarify that the 8 million # has always meant cards graded. The folks at PSA/DNA would love to approach that # in autographed items. As an example, as a small time submitter, I have submitted a few thousand cards to them for grading over the last several years but only 8 were signatures to PSA/DNA...jay