If I Were An Authenticator...

[kingjammy24]

Re: If I Were An Authenticator...

you really believe that auction houses and their authenticators regularly conspire to commit fraud by assigning low grades to their customers' items in order to flip them with a higher grade and at a higher price down the road? that this practice is commonplace and would be next to impossible for the collecting public to detect?

robert,

i'm afraid we've become entangled in a confusing web of sarcasm. i can't tell if you're asking that seriously or not.

rudy.

[aeneas01]

Re: If I Were An Authenticator...

robert,

i'm afraid we've become entangled in a confusing web of sarcasm. i can't tell if you're asking that seriously or not.

rudy.

no sarcasm intended - are those really your feelings?

i mean i certainly get what you're saying rudy, there's no doubt that auction houses and authenticators operate in an environment that seemingly provides unlimited opportunity for unethical exploitation. i just find it hard to believe that conspiring to manipulate grades for the sole purpose of flipping items is as commonplace and as overt as your suggest. or that such a scheme would be difficult to detect. again, i thought your first post was an intentional exaggeration designed to illustrate your point - that the authentication game was ripe for abuse.