[travrosty]

its not a preview, so it must have the pre-certification.

they will claim that it hasnt been looked at yet, but we have been assured that only happens to 'preview' lots, things have are not for sale and never will make it to sale.

so they have some explaining to do, but i believe they will just thumb their nose at any concerns that they are offering up live items with these pre-certifications that may or may not be real.

to me, if it says psa precertification, then it has it. Otherwise are we to guess if it has it yet or not on live items open for bidding and that have received bids?

they play games and then blame the people who are asking the questions when they have promised they don't do this on items up for bid, just 'preview' lots.

does Heritage care to set this issue straight once and for all?

To allow bidding on something and then claim that the pre-certification is on this item prematurely but they are taking peoples bids is not cool behavior and I hope that is not truly the case but I fear it is. But how is the casual collector who sees it for the first time suppose to know if they haven't followed these developments over the past few weeks and months and know nothing of the auction houses practices of doing this?

they would really think it has psa pre-certification. maybe it does? It says so, and it is open for bidding.