PSA/DNA and boxing just don't mix.

[Exhibitman]

"emr"

What does that mean?

[travrosty]

enhanced member reporters, people who can just contact ebay and get something pulled right away by their word.

when you see a bad mantle, then see someone say 'poof', its gone, thats an emr reporting it and getting it pulled right away, these bad boxing are days and days and days old and they never get pulled. emr's are reluctant or unwilling to report a bad psa or jsa item.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by travrosty

enhanced member reporters, people who can just contact ebay and get something pulled right away by their word.

when you see a bad mantle, then see someone say 'poof', its gone, thats an emr reporting it and getting it pulled right away, these bad boxing are days and days and days old and they never get pulled. emr's are reluctant or unwilling to report a bad psa or jsa item.

Ebay is reluctant to pull PSA or JSA items, it is not the fault of the emr's.

[travrosty]

enhanced member reporters, people who can just contact ebay and get something pulled right away by their word.

when you see a bad mantle, then see someone say 'poof', its gone, thats an emr reporting it and getting it pulled right away, these bad boxing are days and days and days old and they never get pulled. emr's are reluctant or unwilling to report a bad psa or jsa item.

[Plinvestments]

How does ebay go about selecting emr's?

[travrosty]

its an inside process, you have to know someone and get in that way.

[Plinvestments]

Originally Posted by travrosty

its an inside process, you have to know someone and get in that way.

Got it, so its not based on experience or skill.

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by Plinvestments

Got it, so its not based on experience or skill.

that's right, its not based on any particular experience or skill, it's based on contacts and who you know.

emr's are reluctant to report authentication companies items as well, its a fault on two fronts.

i have let an emr know of these items and he says he doesnt have time to report them, of course these are items with a large company cert. he doesnt have 5 minutes evidently to send an email along with the proof on these pages. that's what we are all up against. fakes are fakes. certed by these companies or not.

but we have to pull teeth to get a lot of places to pull an item that has an authentication company cert. the reasoning is that the auction houses don't want to erode consumer confidence in the authentication company. if the public sees these certed items being pulled for authenticity reasons, then the public will wonder if these companies are doing a good job and if it is worth it to send the items in.

then the relationship between the auction house and the authentication companies are now strained because the auction house pulled their cert, and these companies are suppose to be pre-approved authenticators and their certs the so called gold standard.

[travrosty]

if they are reluctant to pull these certed items, then why do the emr's put up with it? i wouldnt want to be one if there are double standards, they can figure out their own fakes if they are playing favorites. just another conflict of interest in the autograph hobby. if there wasn't enough already.

all emr's should quit unless they play fair and remove ALL the fakes, not just the fakes that aren't their buddies fakes.