Open letter to STAT and Christopher Morales

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Posted By: <b>shelly jaffe</b><p>I understand that all authenticators say "its their opinion". The difference between a legit authenticator and STAT is percentages. If you look at the CC auction I would be willing to bet that they are 90 percent wrong and that is being nice. If you look at a Mastro auction the authenticators are 90 percent correct and that is the low side. Let Lee at CC do the authenticating, he can see a good item from 14 miles away. Morales and STAT can stop authenticating and count how much money they have cost people. That should keep them busy for many, many months.<br />Barry if you where sent an item that you might see once in your lifetime but now you see it every month as an auction house or an authenticator. Would you not be a wee bit suspicious. This goes on month after month with CC. Josh Gibson autograph pants,balls, and jersey, Chesbro ball, Gehrig jersey,bat,balls, I would think if you had a half a brain you would know something is wrong. So yes it is there opinion but if you have no knowledge of what you are doing and opinion means nothing.<br />Here is the statement from CC in regards to legit authenticators.This is from a question asked in SCD<br /><br />In a not too long ago issue of SCD, (about two weeks ago), an article written about a Coaches Corner Auctions ofSouderton, PA boasted about a $3400 Perez Steel Lloyd Waner sig selling. While reading about Coach's Corner current auction (ended 11/9/7), I noticed that they were auctioning off several more Perez Steele Post Cards. As separate pieces, they offered some of the toughest pieces that collectors could hope to get their hands on, all in one auction. The list includes Ruffing, Coveleski, Greenberg, Alston, Ashburn, Puckett, and 2, count them 2 Waners. I was excited to say the least when I registered on line and posted high bids for each piece. After looking a little more carefully at the pieces, and after the excitement died down a bit, I noticed that none of these elite pieces came with a COA. After contacting Coach's Corner, and asking them about their return policy in the event I had these graded and they came back fake, Kristen informed me of the following:<br /><br /><br />John, we take any returns for authenticity on un-certified items if they are returnd within 21 days after the auction date. Regarding PSA and Jimmy Spence, we are personally not supportive of them as authenticators. We find that they continually reject items that are deemed authentic by other more highly qualified authenticators and they seem to always pass items from other auction companies that they work for, but reject similar items from other auction companies that don't hire them to authenticate their auctions(like Coach's Corner!). That being said, you can use them and return the items within the return period if you like if they fail, but it may be a waste of your time(and money) and ours. Thank you. Kristin Whitten<br />Senior Operations Consultant<br />Coach's Corner Sports Auctions, LLC<br />215-721-9162