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Jeff D.It seems appropriate to mention that wrt keeping track of items that fail authentication, MEARS does keep such a record. This record is available to members on their website in their bat/jersey trade index area.
Along these lines, MEARS is getting serious about cleaning up the memorabilia business, particularly as it pertains to auction houses. Although somewhat lengthy, check out the new requirements auction houses are going to be forced to comply with if they want to submit to MEARS:
http://www.mearsonline.com/news/newsDetail.asp?id=302
A follow up with some commentary about this new policy (and mention of Mastro) can be found here:
http://www.mearsonline.com/news/newsDetail.asp?id=303
I suppose it should be mentioned that I have no affiliation with MEARS (although I respect them tremendously), but I do currently own one (1) MEARS authenticated g/u item.