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Global Authentication Autograph Concerns [Title Edited]

[Moderator Note: This member, who is not using his actual name (which is not required), apparently has never been an authenticator for Global, which he claimed to have once been. While his opinions on the authenticity of the autographs he discusses may be correct, no consideration should be given to his other statements without verification.]

I decided to stroll through ebay and look at some autograph certified by the new Global Authentication. I don't know of any one single autograph collector that actually looks as a Global COA as worth anything. As a matter of fact, if I am looking at a higher end piece with a Global COA I double study it because I question the fact of why the seller would send it to Global instead of a real authenticator.

Here are a few forgeries with a Global COA. I know Steve Sipe is a member on this board and if this post gets me kicked off of here, than so be it. I am just about sick and tired of Global aiding these criminal forgers by giving them a pretty sicker and cert. to go along with their forgery. If you guys want to be treated like real authenticators, how about act like it.

Forger #1 ( listed on ebay for nearly 1000 dollars ) Make no mistake. This is a forgery.

What is even more confusing about this particular situation is you also authenticated this REAL TOM BRADY JERSEY BELOW. How can you authenticate the real autograph shown below and also say this obvious forgery is real?

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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on August 21, 2013 at 7:54pm

Those two along with Priddy ruined GAI.

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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 21, 2013 at 8:15pm

A lot of people forget that Rocchi was the President of PSA and Mike Baker was absolutely the most respected card authenticator in the business while at PSA until they left to form Global. They obviously thought they could be competitive and they took some of PSA's best authenticators with them and for a couple of years it looked like they could indeed compete in the card grading business. One year they were the top sponsor at the National Sports Collector's Convention. Unfortunately, they got into autograph authentication and as long as Mike Guiterrez was involved with them they were fine but when he left they had no well known authenticator and lost all credibility in the autograph community. If they had stuck to what they knew, grading of sports cards, they might still be in business.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on August 21, 2013 at 8:22pm

Rocchi hit rock bottom. President if PSA to personal authenticator for one of the largest dealer of forgeries in the country.

Guy never had skills. nothing more than a crook these days.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on August 21, 2013 at 10:33pm

So now we know that the Gryder comment made was a lie. So does anyone still believe that charles didnt work for GAI??

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on August 22, 2013 at 4:02am

Steve Rocchi, the same guy who is the main "authenticator (cough, cough)" for AtAuction.com who claims to "forensically" examine crap like the Below Mickey Mantle.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 22, 2013 at 5:58am

They didn't take any PSA authenticators or graders with them.

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Permalink Reply by Charles O'Brailey on August 21, 2013 at 9:20pm

Well,
I truly thought the last post would actually be " the last post " but every time someone replies to this thread my iPhone beeps. So I will actually take a moment to respond to some of the things addressed. Did I ever work for GAI.......Absolutely. I think Steve Sipe wants you guys to think Global Authentication is a big company when he talks of his "VAST STAFF", but the actual truth is, there is no vast staff. You could fit the entire staff of Global Authentication in my bathroom.

Also, It seems that Steve thinks that I was not an employee of GAI and that is his right. I could honestly care less. I just ask one question. If I was coming in here to try and impress people by saying I worked for a company, why pick GAI? Why not JSA, PSA, Microsoft, Apple, or why not say i'm Secret Service to the President? You would think that I would come up with something more creative that admitting that I was **cough**cough** an authenticator for GAI.

Steve, I wrote you and told you I wanted to close my account before any of these lies that Steve Sipe said about me never being on payroll were even brought up. I decided to leave based on the fact that I felt several members on the board didn't like my way of posting and like I said, I had no intentions of fighting with people on this board. Call me an a******...Fine... but to say I never worked for GAI ( that sir, is a fallacy ). You can believe Mr. Vast Staff Sipe if you want and I have no problems with it. However, you came at me and asked me if I had proof that I could send you right then that I worked for them. Sure Steve, I have a check stub laying around from years gone by.

I will say this, and I'm sure Christopher Williams can verify this. I have been watching Chris' videos on youtube and chatting with him via youtube for 4 years and if he remembers, I told him about my time with GAI during our chats on youtube many years ago. So if in fact, i'm lying about working for GAI it is something that I have been lying about for many many years. The fact is i'm not lying at all. I worked for GAI and I know exactly what goes on there. I will also make sure I get the proof that I did work for them. As a matter of fact, I am going to request some tax documents which should be sufficient evidence. I will also make a youtube video which I will PM to Chris on youtube and I hope he will share it via this board.

I'm not going to do this for my own sake, I just want to further expose the lying moron Steve Sipe is. You can buy a piece of his pie if you want, but the fact is......THIS GUY KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING. He talks about his vast staff and slanted views and bad lighting, and all this other crap...........The problem with some of you people is you keep buying his B.S. ( Look, the guy has authenticated THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF FORGERIES. ) That is what GAI and now Global Authentics has always been about.

Who in their right minds pays Global the same price to authenticate a Tom Brady signed jersey? If it is authenticated by PSA it might bring 1,000...1,500....or possibly 2,000

Authenticated by Global....probably 150 dollars or so. So, with that being said. It is very obvious who sends items to Steve and his ***cough***cough*** vast staff to authenticate.

Also Steve, let me ask you a couple of questions. Who did you speak to from GAI payroll department? How many people actually work for you? Did you or Bob Gryder ever authenticate your own items to sell? Did your Nascar authenticator ever brag to high heavens about his connections at ebay and how he is cool with them?

I know a few of you guys took my side and I sure as hell appreciate it. I am now going to unfollow this post, but if Chris Williams will so kindly post my video link here when I get proof of income ( showing where I worked for GAI ) I think we can finally expose who is full of s*** and who is not.

Mr. Sipe, You sir are an infection in this hobby. You blame everyone from your imaginary vast staff for Certs that have your name plastered all over them. Steve Cyrkin can call me the bad guy all day long, but once I get this document all of this will be exposed for sure.

Please keep in mind people, The guy Steve Cyrkin is putting trust in, is the same guy who is authenticating forgeries by the thousands. I'm not super smart but in my opinion someone who authenticates the below image, can't be trusted with anything in life.

By the way Steve Sipe, PSA failed the hell out of this via quick opinion. This M.J. style forgery is rampant with your COA. There are about 30 of them with that f'ed up J in Jordan. It's whatever, but soon.............................really soon, the truth will come out.

NOW I'M UNFOLLOWING THIS POST SO MY IPHONE STOPS GOING NUTS. I'LL PM CHRIS ON YOUTUBE WHEN I GET MY VIDEO UP. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS I WANT TO POINT ON.

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Permalink Reply by Randy on August 22, 2013 at 5:58am

Now you attack the moderator of this forum who provides this platform for everyone to use. He NEVER said he supported Steve Sipe or Global Authentic. He has always been clear that he agrees with you about their authentication skills. He even said your assessments of bad authentications were probably spot on.

He said you COULD NOT provide proof you worked for Global when asked for it. A copy of a W-2 from Global with your name on it would have been sufficient. That should have been easy to immediately supply as you certainly are smart enough to know you have to keep tax records for a minimum of 7 years in case you get audited.

Your attack on Steve Cyrkin proves you have an agenda that has nothing to do with forgeries as his track record proves he is willing to go to bat to fight forgeries up to and including litigation.

Anyone on this forum who continues to support you after this last post is a detriment to this forum going forward and whether or not you ever worked for the defunct for a number of years now GAI is irrelevant.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 22, 2013 at 5:26pm

We have edited the title of this discussion and added a Moderator Note in the opening be because Charles O'Brailey is not using his real name and was almost certainly not authenticator for GAI or GA. Wascher has researched him extensively and will be making a short comment about it by tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by wascher on August 22, 2013 at 8:29pm

I have not spoken to Steve Sipe at all, however when questions arose asking who Charles really is, I became inquisitive so I did a little searching myself.

I used Google, and did a simple search using the email address that Charles provided us to join this forum. I found that he uses that very email address, and his real name, on a Yahoo Questions and Answers forum, where he states he is a Doctor at Three Rivers Mental Health Clinic in Atlanta, treating patients with mental disorders. He also gives medical advice online on this forum (a huge liability in my eyes). A point to also note, is that Doctors are licensed and would be listed on the State Medical Board site (current or expired) in the State they are working in. I won't go into it any more than that right now, unless Charles wishes to expand on it.

With that said though, Mr. Sipe stating that Charles O'Brailey did not work for them was a truthful statement if he said it, since he was looking under the name Charles O'Brailey (not his real name). Personally I don't care if he worked for GAI or not, however, I do have some very valid concerns about him treating patients online as a Doctor.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on August 22, 2013 at 8:43pm

Things just get more interesting here. Good guy Sipe?

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Permalink Reply by Rick Meyer on August 22, 2013 at 10:33pm

Not necessarily true Wascher. Doctors would only appear on state board cites if they are board certified.There are many who practice legally who are not board certified and would not appear. You would would need to check names against medical licenses to know if they are a dr or not.