[travrosty]

If you look at his original post, he trusted the authenticatior. He only came on here to ask after doing some searching on the internet.

You can trust psa and jsa and buy an authenticated item with an LOA from them, then search on the internet and find criticism of psa and jsa, and then show a recently bought wife signed sonny liston on this forum slabbed like this one authenticated by psa, or the other one that was given an LOA from James Spence Authentication and sold at Geppi's, and then you can be called an idiot too by not doing your own liston research beforehand even though it had authentication certs?

If it's a problem of trusting AAU, and getting blasted for it, then what about the poor soul that trusts psa or jsa and ends up with a wife signed? that guy must be a moron too. We have to vet and check out all psa and jsa sigs from now on also. don't trust them and then ask opinions after you buy if you have misgivings about them later on.


Is that how it works? someone has a psa or jsa certed item, comes on here, shows it, asks for opinion, it fails, and he's an idiot for buying it and trusting the authenticator, or is it just someone who trusts and gets burned by an authenticator you don't like? Those are the only idiots I suppose.

Reality is that the authenticators need to be accountable for their authentication, and if someone gets burned, they aren't idiots, but should get their money back or be made whole. To all psa and jsa buyers, in the scenario presented here, if you trust them and end up with a psa or jsa dud, to be fair, you are the problem!

Just pointing out the paradox and hypocrisy in the autograph world. If you get burned by authenticator A, you asked for it, and you are a moron. if you get burned by authenticator b, it was just a mistake, you aren't a moron and no big deal.