Who to use to Authenticate Items by CCSA

[Klrdds]

I do not think we can ever know who buys these items from CCSA. They certainly are not selling for anywhere near market price/value, so it could be anybody from a millionaire in the US to Japan or Australia to the 15 year old kid spending his allowance on a dream ball at a seemingly great price or the guy trying to be the hottest collector in his area or the next little Cooperstown . Suffice it to say that those buyers do not post here and have very little knowledge of the lack of authenticity of those items, I would not say say ignorant but rather uninformed. Whatever the reason CCSA has made a small fortune off these people , and they keep coming to their site and buying these horrific items.
To paraphrase Field of Dreams , one of my favorite movies , " forge it and they will buy".
I hear their next private signing is with Amos Rusie who will date and inscribe Hoosier Thunderbolt for free.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by Klrdds

I do not think we can ever know who buys these items from CCSA. They certainly are not selling for anywhere near market price/value, so it could be anybody from a millionaire in the US to Japan or Australia to the 15 year old kid spending his allowance on a dream ball at a seemingly great price or the guy trying to be the hottest collector in his area or the next little Cooperstown . Suffice it to say that those buyers do not post here and have very little knowledge of the lack of authenticity of those items, I would not say say ignorant but rather uninformed. Whatever the reason CCSA has made a small fortune off these people , and they keep coming to their site and buying these horrific items.
To paraphrase Field of Dreams , one of my favorite movies , " forge it and they will buy".
I hear their next private signing is with Amos Rusie who will date and inscribe Hoosier Thunderbolt for free.

I beg to differ.

In my humble opinion, the majority of buyers of Coach's Corner forgeries know exactly what they are buying.

[mcgwirecom]

I live not too far from CC. In fact at one time I lived only a few blocks away. I knew those guys when they just owned a tiny card store called Captain Ricks. I have actually been to their place as recently as 2 years ago. I will sometimes watch the auction for JSA or PSA items as well as McGwire signed items which I can easily identify as good or bad. Over the years I have bought a handful of real nice McGwire signed items at a good price, but thats only because I weeded though the 100s of bad ones. They run out of an old, old vacant building. The stuff is piled up all over when you walk in. Usually have to walk around and yell for someone to help you out. Probably could just grab a bunch of stuff and leave, but it would mostly be worthless...LOL

[D. Bergin]

Not surprising that security is not so tight, when you could just replace that priceless Moses Fleetwood Walker / Cap Anson dual signed baseball, with a simple call to the local handwriting "expert", Mr. More-Or-Less......or Ted Paydirt.