"Premium" JSA Item With Basic Cert, Not LOA?

I've been monitoring the Natalie Portman autographs as of late waiting to see when a bunch of TPA'd and cuts showed up, and I stumbled across something a bit weird.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NATALIE-PORTMAN-SIGNED-3X5-JSA-11X14-8X10-...

I found an autograph (that I'm 90% sure has been cut from a book) that has been "authenticated" by JSA. However, the item comes with a basic cert rather than an LOA. The JSA fee schedule doesn't even show the basic cert as an option for Portman. Does that mean they now consider this to have a sub-$200 valuation, or is this just something that high-volume submitters are able to do to save money?

Oddly I can't get the Cert. # to pull up anything on the website, but I might just be looking it up wrong somehow.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on November 16, 2020 at 10:24am

Contact JSA directly to report your concerns.

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Permalink Reply by mark harmon on November 16, 2020 at 2:31pm

you can buy portman signed books for under $200. you have to be crazy to spend that kind of money on a cut. and yes that was cut from a book

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Permalink Reply by M. on November 16, 2020 at 2:50pm

Yup, I agree. I didn't see another opportunity like the present coming any time soon so I picked up a bunch of the books.

On top of the price, the item now has an ugly sticker affixed to it which I wouldn't like. If you think this price is crazy, just look at what happens when trading/sports card companies repackage autographs. They chop out the autograph and put it in their "card" as a cut and all of a sudden it goes for big bucks.

The Taylor Swift signed CDs were $25 from her store, and readily available for <$50 from resellers (and then again for $25 from her store). They made a bunch into cut signature cards, and currently sell for $250-300. Why people want to pay 10x as much for what is essentially a destroyed item is beyond me. It's only a matter of time before these $150-200 Portman books are released as a bunch of $400-600 "cut cards."

...I still haven't quite figured out how they got a cert instead of an loa though.