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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 30, 2015 at 7:58pm

if you really want to laugh, read this:

GFA Is the ONLY authentication company who gives a real guarantee to their certification 

In the event the purchaser of a GFA authenticated signature believes that the signature is not genuine with respect to GFA standards and procedures, he/she may submit the signature through the GFA “Guarantee Resubmission” service and GFA will submit the signature to an authorized 3rd party forensic authenticator for additional examination.

If authenticity is determined under such “Guarantee Resubmission” procedures to be found non-authentic, GFA shall pay the purchase price for the autograph in question or at the owner of the signature’s option to replace the signature with a GFA authenticated signature of the original signer of similar item and value.  GFA will also refund the re-authentication fee and postage and insurance costs incurred by the signature owner in sending the signature to GFA. It is understood that GFA will replace the signature or refund the purchase price after reexamination and a verifiable receipt of price paid is supplied to GFA.

To read more about this guarantee go to www.gfaauthenticated.com/guarantee/

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 31, 2015 at 3:27am

I would love to know who their "authorized 3rd party forensic authenticator" is.  Drew Max???

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 31, 2015 at 3:43am

Terrier, it's a bad joke meant to fool the wannabe autograph collectors and scammers who hide behind that bogus guarantee.

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Permalink Reply by Null on July 31, 2015 at 6:21am

Amazes me that eBay and our GOVERNMENT allow this type of scam to happen over and over. It is such laughable crap, anyone with even the slightest knowledge of autographs can tell how awful of attempts they are. Typical crap with "COA"s from GFA (Guaranteed Forged Autograph).

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on July 31, 2015 at 8:00am

yes, these forgeries with the GFA are approved and infecting E-bay like never before. All these old tired poses that have been ink jet printed adnausium, somehow are showing up nice and new, most with god awful cookie cutter framing. Now the Maris's show up LOLOL

E-Bay's partnership with GFA is the same as the Military exchanges with Chris Moralass. I can oly hope that sometime before I die E-bay gets their a** sued for fostering that relationship. The GFA scam is growing to a point where it is out of control....HELLO FBI, law enforcement, anyone???

Nah, they're too busy pulling people over with no front license plates and shooting them in the head, selling loosey cigarettes and 10 cops choking him out,  shooting kids in the head for stealing cigars because "He went for my gun" or being tossed around hog tied in the back of a police van, unsecured breaking their backs (har har harde har har, ) to care about this. Count me as another who doesn't care.

I have to agree with Chris's statements from years ago that it's just as much the dopey buyers fault. You know what, these dumb, stupid ignoramas buyers get what they deserve. They are morons and I'll just leave it at that. F E-bay, F GFA and especially F ALL law enforcement. HEYWOOD JA Blow me? I laugh at the stupidity of the people of America/ It is the reason a guy like me can work 10 hours a week and be successful. PEOPLE ARE JUST STUPID IDIOTS nowadays... VERY STUPID.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on July 31, 2015 at 1:16pm

If you notice, especially on ebay, virtually every Ted Williams forgery is signed by the same person. I'm not going to mention the specific areas that are identical on every forgery, but most of you who are familiar with Williams will know. Basically one person is forging all these and sending everything to the crooked authenticators they know will rubber stamp them, unles the crooked authenticators are having these signatures done themselves.

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Permalink Reply by Null on July 31, 2015 at 1:21pm

It's because the GFA/Florida junk is all signed by machines with templates, just like an auto pen, and just as hideous.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on August 6, 2015 at 10:15am

Sad, just sad.

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