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How can JSA authenticate this Muhammad Ali?

Here is an interesting piece. Here is a Muhammad Ali/Barack Obama dual signed photo I came across on eBay.

In May 2013, it received an "In-The-Presence" LOA from PSA/DNA meaning a representative from PSA/DNA personally witnessed this signing take place.

Interestingly enough, in July 2013 the owners sent it off to JSA to be authenticated (Why is beyond me), and got an LOA from JSA.

Here is the item:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BARACK-OBAMA-MUHAMMAD-ALI-SIGNED-11X14-COLO...

How in the hell could JSA authenticate that shaky mess? (With all due respect to Mr. Ali). It seems to me JSA authenticated this based purely on the PSA/DNA sticker it already had on it, which if you type in that CERT # will tell you the item was signed "In-The-Presence of a PSA/DNA representative" on PSA's website.

Thoughts?

Tags: Ali, JSA, Muhammad, Obama, PSA/DNA

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on January 17, 2014 at 1:59pm

I know some of these were signed in a private signing so its obvious that JSA was going off that. Looking to take money and put their sticker on something is all that is shown here.

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Permalink Reply by Null on January 17, 2014 at 2:02pm

JSA charges $75 for Ali, $100 for Obama + another $25-40 for the LOA, so basically someone paid JSA $200+ to send them their photo, so JSA could look up the PSA/DNA # online and then print out a cert for them.

LOL.