Autograph Auction LOA's Do they mean anything?

[travrosty]

Only psa and jsa issue the auction loa's as far as I know so i assume we are talking about them.

but the full "LOL"'s from these companies aren't any better on the other hand. Some full LOL's will describe a baseball with a babe ruth/lou gehrig signature on a baseball, but will only show the ruth signature on the photo. what good is that? if they don't show the gehrig autograph, and it is light, what could prevent anyone from darkening the gehrig autograph and "increasing" the value of the piece? since a photo of the gehrig signature is not shown, anything could happen. Other pieces will say that a piece is signed by numerous individuals, but they don't list all the signatures, just a few key autographs, leaving it up to anybody to add any autographs they want to on the piece to increase its value too.

a proper loa would list every autograph and show complete pictures of the piece showing the autographs so no additions/revisions could be made.

Auction LOA is a way for them to make more money off of the customer, they don't want you to feel comfortable with it, thats why they do it that way, so you feel uncomfortable and send it in for the full LOL from these companies. Until they do it right, the hobby suffers.