Auction House Certs

[drcy]

With Pre-certified lots, you pay for a physical LOA if you want it. You can instead use a copy of the auction listing as equivalent to show the autograph(s) were pre-certified. The auction catalog description can be used as documentation the autographs were pre-certified, and I know of eBay dealers who do just that.

I would imagine that the pre-certification method was the authenticators' idea not the auction houses'.

[packs]

That's for the buyers. But the question is about asking the consignor to cough up authentication fees for their lot. Unless I'm reading it wrong.

[drcy]

I know many auction houses, including REA, have long charged consignors for LOA certification for game used. For what that piece of information is worth in this discussion.

I've consigned items before but nothing that ever required additional LOA, so don't know how it works first hand.