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" DOES IT HAVE AUTHENTICATION? " - How would you answer?

Like many of us, I do some selling on eBay (mostly to help finance my own collecting). This was the question I was asked by a member this morning who says they are interested in one of my offerings:

"Does It Have Authentication?"

This particular piece has no third party authentication but I have no doubt whatsoever that it's real after study and comparison to exemplars as well as running it past a dealer friend.

How do you (or would you) answer this question about authenticity for a potential buyer if you don't have a TPA letter?

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Comment by Eddy on January 13, 2022 at 7:39pm: You are dating yourself. Those newer collectors are not even used to keyboard typing. They follow prompts on a 5 inch phone screen as they are exploring the world of a collecting authentication stickers and certificates.

Comment by Eric Keith Longo on January 13, 2022 at 7:40pm: That's true.

Comment by Josh Board on January 14, 2022 at 8:53pm: It was fun to read this thread because...I'm in my 50s now, and when I was a kid, I collected basketball cards religiously. I have a collection worth an awful lot. So, upon selling my rookie cards of Bill Russell and every other Hall of Famer I had, I found something out the hard way. NOBODY will buy cards that aren't "graded." Uh, okay. I look into that -- $150 for PSA to grade them. And they're backlogged, so it's a year or so wait. The more I researched why, I realized...people could easily reproduce a card to make it look like a Topps card from the '60s or whatever. Or my unopened packs of '61 Fleer basketball cards (with a Wilt Chamberlain rookie card that is worth $350,000 in mint 10 condition), they need to be graded so somebody doesn't think I opened it and put common players in there. (boxer Jake Paul recently got burned paying $3.5 mil for Pokemon cards unopened in a box, that had G.I. Joe cards instead). It's all so bizarre.