Quote Originally Posted by sammy View Post
---------------------

http://www.autographalert.com/news.html

---------------------
The best discussion about this site:

http://www.gameuseduniverse.com/vb_f...ad.php?t=18147

Funny, Autograph Alert picks on 3rd party authenticators, but they have their own 3rd party authentication company:

http://paasaa.com/

http://www.paasautographs.com/

Or find them on eBay:

http://shop.ebay.com/pro-authenticat...5. m570.l1313

So, they rip 3rd party authenticators on one web site, and then offer to authenticate themselves - Another 3rd party authenticator! They don't sign their articles, which is really unprofessional, and then they attack situation after situation, forgetting that many 3rd party authenticators are correct 99.9% of the time, but they love to have a field day with the .1% each and every time.

Then again, there are a few 3rd party autograph authenticators that are maybe correct 50% of the time. There is a bad standard as there is only one or two good 3rd party authenticators in the industry and the rest are all pretenders.

As for the current article, I'd be very surprised if there is everything legitimate with JSA really declining to authenticate Upper Deck Authenticated certified autographs. I'd love to see a reasons from JSA, because they are not that stupid and I have a hunch those letters are not original.

Since no author signs their work on that web site, I take everything they say with a grain of salt and anyone reading it should also.