PSA will authenticate anything

[Shoeless Moe]

I'm thinking of sending in my McDonald's Monopoly game pieces to get slabbed

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Amer...item3ccd5d2ff6

[drc]

As long as the item is correctly identified, I say.

[glynparson]

They offer to grade/authenticate tickets. Someone wished to use that service for a Chico and the man ticket. PSA obliged I fail to see how this is a negative against PSA. If you want to complain about someone choosing to slab a chico and the man ticket I think that has more credibility than bashing PSA for doing what it says it will do and what a customer requested it to do.

[toybulldog]

Originally Posted by glynparson

They offer to grade/authenticate tickets. Someone wished to use that service for a Chico and the man ticket. PSA obliged I fail to see how this is a negative against PSA. If you want to complain about someone choosing to slab a chico and the man ticket I think that has more credibility than bashing PSA for doing what it says it will do and what a customer requested it to do.

I wonder how many "Chico and ther Man" tickets they had to compare this one to in order to come to the conclusion that it is authentic? If they didn't have any then is PSA doing what they say they will do?

Or is it authentic "just because"?

If it makes them money then why not "slab it"?

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by toybulldog

I wonder how many "Chico and ther Man" tickets they had to compare this one to in order to come to the conclusion that it is authentic? If they didn't have any then is PSA doing what they say they will do?

Or is it authentic "just because"?

If it makes them money then why not "slab it"?

Mark O,

I would say that is safely a 1/1 slab. I would also suspect that there is certainly no cottage industry of forgers knocking off Chico and the Man tickets to fool unsuspecting collectors out there...

[travrosty]

thats not the point, the point is they say they will do one thing, and we should expect they keep their word. if they dont have another one to compare against, how do they know its the real thing. they are authenticating, not guessing. authenticating means verifying that its real. what did they do to verify it?

[sports-rings]

I would say that is safely a 1/1 slab. I would also suspect that there is certainly no cottege industry of forgers knocking off Chico and the Man tickets to fool unsuspecting collectors out there...

While I agree with your comment, I don't believe that is the point of the original thread.

I am in the printing business and it would be so easy to create a knock-off in under three minutes, using thick paper and a high-end digital color printer that's designed to print postcards. I could create a near replica in minutes for under 10 cents.

Does PSA had a real ticket to compare? If I submitted my 10 cent replica, would they slab it too?

Is this one more example of many, where PSA takes the money and does no real analysis or not enough analysis? (see the recent PSA boxing thread for additional coverage of this issue).