MEARS' Evaluations Continue to Baffle...

[Fraudfinder!!]

http://www.mearsonline.com/news/newsDetail.asp?id=652

[silkman22]

I just saw the listing below posted on eBay. See the MEARS letter - the jersey has 2 points deducted for having a nameplate removed but somehow manages to get 1.5 points added in for "player characteristics".

How is this possible? The jersey looks new and barely worn yet shows player characteristics? How would one figure out or know the characteristics of Ricky Bones?

It appears to me that points can be added in when convenient.

Any thoughts?

http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-RICKY-BONES...3A1%7C294%3A50

JP

[otismalibu]

Ricky Bones? Eve Massive?

Don't make me start a Show Us Your Best Adult Film Name Gamers thread.

[Marichal27]

MEARS is a joke. The stupid grading on game used jerseys. They are either game used or not. One or the other. They are another bunch that are down there with Lampson, and the other degenerates.

[sportscentury]

MEARS is a joke. The stupid grading on game used jerseys. They are either game used or not. One or the other. They are another bunch that are down there with Lampson, and the other degenerates.

MEARS has made some mistakes, but this comparison is way over the top.

[mvandor]

MEARS has made some mistakes, but this comparison is way over the top.

WAY over.

[Marichal27]

MEARS has made some mistakes, but this comparison is way over the top.

My take is you think MEARS is ok overall. Correct me if I'm wrong.Most of these authenticators are jokes. I collect SF Giants jerseys, and I wish Dick Dobbins was still alive. If he saw what has happened to this hobby, he would get sick to his stomach. You'd never have half of the BS that goes on with these so called authenticators. MEARS will give a jersey of A!) or whatever their highest grade is, especially if they have a financial stake with the item.

[joelsabi]

btw, in response to the discussion going on at the "lebron jersey-a5" thread, troy kinunen promised the following:

[SIZE=2]"I plan on writing an article about the purpose and the benefits of the A5 grade, as although not a perfect system, when proper understood, it offers the collective collecting community very important data that it can use to make informed collecting decisions."

has this article been written yet on the A5 grade?