JSA, really?! Come on

[khw]

Originally Posted by jimjim

First, you clearly don't get it. How do you know that signature is good? Did you see it signed with your own eyes? Otherwise, you are just guessing like all of us and the TPAs. That is the whole point of this exercise. If you don't get that, then I am not sure what else needs to be said.

Second, you have a huge conflict of interest. Your business model is to buy autographs in the raw form, get them certified by a TPA, and then mark them up for a nice profit. I have bid against you on eBay multiple times (and lost), and then I see the piece slabbed for 3x the amount of money in your eBay store. So your relationship with the TPA's is different than 99% of the members on this board.

then this just what it always is on here sour grapes , it is called doing business i provide a service to my customers and the tpa provide a service , so it is a guess? for you maybe but i consider it a more than guess on my end , i started in this business in 1986 have built something more than a guessing game , this past august just completed my 24th national and along the way set up at like maybe 400 plus shows and where i live that was flying to them. and that was pretty much stopping shows in 2002 . i have for years provided signatures to card companies and can yearly sell around a million dollars and at the same time keep 100% feedback on ebay with a return customer percent of about 25% plus every month , so am i good guesser , or over the course of the year in just my business the 7000 plus sale customers comprise the 1% not on this board? or in reality the whole world is actually using tpa and that is what is real. if folks would have actually went to the national in cleveland this year the whole hobby accepts and moves around tpa. auction houses , everything, just like 20 years ago when card grading started , just like i said sour grapes . i buy alot, i buy good stuff and i do not guess , and i pay good money for it , i then have it certed and thats what customers want