Should Collectors DEMAND TEAM PAPERWORK?

[josportsco]

Re: Should Collectors DEMAND TEAM PAPERWORK?

Opinion appreciated. You must be referring to 95% of sports memorabilia. Barring a player making a significant impact or HOF in their sport, the return for any merchandise in today’s questionable market can be limited especially without team paperwork. Remember the major point of this thread is merchandise with team paperwork in today’s market. An Urlacher with team paperwork may not be for you but it sure is for the guy I met at the Chicago show that had me look at an Urlacher that had several issues and was purchased out of auction as game used and it definitely was not used. Should have seen his face when he was having Urlacher sign it as a used jersey and was told it was not worn by him. I’m sure someone will come on and post that they have heard tons of athletes saying they own every jersey they wore so this post is directed towards this particular instance only.

[wideright]

Re: Should Collectors DEMAND TEAM PAPERWORK?

Opinion appreciated. You must be referring to 95% of sports memorabilia. Barring a player making a significant impact or HOF in their sport, the return for any merchandise in today’s questionable market can be limited especially without team paperwork. Remember the major point of this thread is merchandise with team paperwork in today’s market. An Urlacher with team paperwork may not be for you but it sure is for the guy I met at the Chicago show that had me look at an Urlacher that had several issues and was purchased out of auction as game used and it definitely was not used. Should have seen his face when he was having Urlacher sign it as a used jersey and was told it was not worn by him. I’m sure someone will come on and post that they have heard tons of athletes saying they own every jersey they wore so this post is directed towards this particular instance only.

I'm sorry, but being a novice game-used collector this is just scary and intimidating. This instance plus the Favre story are enough to make me not want to get into this market. Is anyone working on some sort of system to chart each jersey an athlete wears and tag it somehow so that it truly makes it GU? Isn't this a big enough multi-million dollar fraud operation that major league sports associations would create a new system to monitor and track items?