Beckett suing store for fraudulent Kelce signatures

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Hahahahahaha.

Hahahhahahhaaaaa. Ha!

So, let me see if I have this right :

An opinion seller, paid somebody for their opinion, then sold that opinion as their own, THEN figured out that they were lied to?

Hahahahaha......

Amazing, stuff.

Reading the article, there was no opinions offered or sold in this case. Beckett entered a contract with someone to act as witness to a signing, so it would get the Beckett Witnessed designation (which some people prefer to authenticated, because it shouldn't be a matter of opinion that something was signed in your presence) instead of the Beckett Authenticated. That person then claimed to have witnessed the signing, but did not in fact, ever show up. It turns out that Kelce was also never at the event the witness was supposed to attend - he was booked at a signing elsewhere the same day (which makes this look like a planned and coordinated schemed between the "witness" and the forgers). The "event organizers" then forged the items, which were submitted along with the "witness' paperwork certifying they had watched Kelce sign, so Beckett then slabbed/stickered the items accordingly.
This is hardly a defense of Beckett, I would argue this even worse than if they had just screwed up on 1138 signatures (which would be pretty bad on it's own). Many people (myself included) assumed that "Beckett Witnessed" meant signed in the presence of a Beckett employee. The revelation that they contract others to act as witnesses immediately makes you wonder how many times this has happened that they just didn't catch. Certainly, any signing that this "witness" had previously been contracted for are suspect.Also, since Beckett figured this out after the Jason Kelce scheduling conflict was brought to their attention, you have to wonder why they didn't check on that prior to contracting someone to witness an event that wasn't actually happening.