Are the autograph auth. folks absolute idiots?

[Rich Klein]

But you can get a JSA sticker on an BGS Holder. It's a nicer way to show the autograph AND the card and the autograph is protected. The card looks very nice with the BGS Holder as well.

Rich

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

The card looks very nice with the BGS Holder as well.

I agree -- here is one of my finest examples.

From Autographed T206

[Leon]

My impetus for this thread was to denote the ruining of our cardboard and photo gems, really by any company. It just so happens my only cards and autos with stickers are JSA, so they get the brunt of my rant. Any company that does this should be chastised, again imo.

Why can't the authenticating companies just say something like

" We can authenticate the xxxx piece but to get it certified forever you will need to have it encapsulated....and here are 3 choices to get that done...We aren't in the business to destroy cards or photos so we don't put silly stickers on them anymore" Would it really be that difficult? As I have already said I will still use JSA but the first time they destroy a piece I give them with one of these BS stickers is the last time I would submit to them. And no, of course I won't request for my item to be destroyed with said sticker.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Leon

Why can't the authenticating companies just say something like . . . . Would it really be that difficult?

I just think there is a volume issue here and that enough customers don't care if their photos or cards have a sticker on the back, especially from a cost basis. If it only costs $8 to have the sticker but $30 to have the encapsulation and you have 15 photos or 16 1987 Topps baseball cards you'd like to get authenticated -- well, that's the real issue. And I don't see PSA/DNA, GAI or JSA giving up on those 15 photos or 16 cards at $8/per. Especially if there is a demand for it, which -- notwithstanding the views of the puritanical pre-war baseball card collector -- there clearly is.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

I just think there is a volume issue here and that enough customers don't care if their photos or cards have a sticker on the back, especially from a cost basis. If it only costs $8 to have the sticker but $30 to have the encapsulation and you have 15 photos or 16 1987 Topps baseball cards you'd like to get authenticated -- well, that's the real issue. And I don't see PSA/DNA, GAI or JSA giving up on those 15 photos or 16 cards at $8/per. Especially if there is a demand for it, which -- notwithstanding the views of the puritanical pre-war baseball card collector -- there clearly is.

yeah, that's us...the puritanical guys that don't like our items destroyed. I am about as puritan as Hugh Heffner (I wish )

[T206Collector]

Ha. I hope you know I was referring to all of us. We have very strict requirements for keeping our cards unadulterated. Erasures and water soaking are permitted by some, and all of us find wrinkle pressing, coloration, restoration, etc. to be taboo. etc. etc. Applying these standards to stickers on 8 x 10s of [insert modern player name here] is like apples and oranges, is my point.

[Leon]

I could see your point on my title and have changed it......I still hate those darn stickers though....and my only ones were done by JSA......