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Permalink Reply by Mike Kaminski on May 31, 2014 at 12:19pm

Sports - PSA/JSA/SGC
Music - Roger Epperson

Avoid ACE.

Permalink Reply by Rich on May 31, 2014 at 12:36pm

Seconded - many forum members will also confirm that ACE is pure garbage and should be avoided.

Permalink Reply by Alaine Randall on May 31, 2014 at 12:47pm

Cool. I was thinking of going with PSA. It's for a Dale Earnhardt autographed photo. Thank you guys for your input.

Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on May 31, 2014 at 2:29pm

Take ACE off of that list

Permalink Reply by Brandon Mysinger on May 31, 2014 at 9:10pm

Just show it here, I'll give you an opinion for free. If you decide you still want a COA, you will know if you would be wasting money or not.

Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on June 1, 2014 at 1:16am

Hi Alaine,

Brandon Mysinger is the way to go. And if he offered to give his opinion here for free, then you are in luck. Brandon is very well respected on this board, and i know of no other better than him with Nascar. And i dont know if you will find anyone else on the board who knows of anyone better as well. I highly recommend talking to him.

As far as ACE, my personal opinion is that i would never get an item certed by them for my own collection. I believe ACE is on the ebay banned list now, but i might be wrong on that.

Permalink Reply by Dane on June 1, 2014 at 12:58am

ACE? Do you mean Ace Authentics or the tennis company? If you mean the tennis company, I don't think they do authentication, they just market witnessed signatures. If you mean Ace Authentics, they're worse than garbage.

So far, SGC has been okay. They've been authenticating signatures for two short of a period of time to really recommend them.

PSA is probably the best for resale value. JSA is second, but those who don't like JSA seem to avoid their items like the plague, unless super cheap.

For specific themes, you're best going with specialists:

Richard Simon (vintage baseball)
Roger Epperson (music; works with JSA, so basically the same thing)
John Reznikoff (politics; works with JSA)

Permalink Reply by Travis Christenberry on June 1, 2014 at 1:28am

ACE as in Justin Priddy. And yes they are on ebay's banned list. Just click on picture below to zoom in. You can also click on this link http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/autographs.html and then scroll down and click on Certificates of Authenticity (COAs) and Letters of Authenticity (LOAs).

Permalink Reply by Travis Christenberry on June 1, 2014 at 1:47am

Here is their website if you ever want to throw money in the garbage can.

http://autographcertificationexperts.com/