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A while back I decided to give Mike Frost from P.A.A.S. a chance to authenticate a few of my Beatles autographs. He was significantly cheaper than many of the other authenticators and I had seen his EBay auction a number of times. I decided to send him this mid 70's Harrison autograph which, in my opinion, is pretty cut and dry a genuine autograph. To my disbelief he responded saying that autograph was in fact NOT authentic! Along with this signature I sent him others as well which he deemed as not genuine. I felt terrible knowing that these were real and I was just taken for my money to the tune of $400.00+ dollars. After I received the signatures I did the only thing one could do. I mailed them off to Frank Caiazzo for a true authentication. As expected, the autograph was indeed authentic. I felt a little more vindication when I found out that his authentication services were puled from EBay. BUT! I just ran across another one of his ebay auctions trying to lure unknowing patrons to use his services for Beatles autographs! I was as you can imagine quite peeved. In my opinion, I would stay as far away from a Mike Frost PAAS Beatles authentication as possible. It is my belief that he has no clue what is real and what is not and I would advise to save your money and go with someone more reputable in this business. Take a look at the example for yourself and you be the judge!!!
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amen!
Nice Harrison...
I searched the computer at work and unfortunately could not find the pictures of the autographs in question. I talked with our computer tech and he said because we recently updated our systems that most folders were deleted. The only autograph I still have in my personal collection is the George signature. The others have already been sold. I am not looking for a refund and did not start this thread to bring other authenticators such as Epperson and Caiazzo into question. I simply started this because I wanted to impart my experience with PAAS. The fact of the matter is that even the autographs that PAAS deemed authentic I had to send off and pay to have reevaluated because I could not knowingly sell an autograph with a COA from a company that I felt was not reputable in the field of Beatles autographs. Again, this is my opinion and mine alone.
Ugh...you need to fire your computer tech...today. The most important thing to do before upgrading computers is backup and preserve your data files and folders. What an idiot...you must be furious!
steve, the store i woork for is not a store that sells auto's. we sell musical inst. i have no control what they deem as important. this was personal info. that had nothind to do with me.
my bad, that had nothind to do with the store, not me.
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Mike, How about answering terrier's question? I can't see one single thing wrong with signature, and am just curious as to what exactly you don't like about it.
I will explain my opinion shortly. I am just waiting upon a response from Xperttexpert about the $400, I charged him and about the other 5 items that he sold with Letters of Authentication. I just would like to see what comapny he used to authenticate the items for him or who he used to reevaluated the autographs he claims I authenticated for him? If he lost the images I am sure I could help him find them.
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