Authentication stickers are one of the best things in the hobby because it gives you SOME comfort knowing that the autograph has been inspected. Usually I don’t mind where a company places the sticker on a baseball, football, basketball, or hockey puck. But when I saw this autographed buyback from 2009 Upper Deck Goudey, I had to shake my head for a moment. Its good that Upper Deck used PSA/DNA to authenticate the autograph, but why do they need to place a sticker directly on the card? I wonder what would happen if someone wanted to send these in for grading? Would that sticker hurt the card’s grade, or would they leave it alone since it came from a 2009 product? Usually PSA/DNA authenticated cards come in a slabbed holder. But I guess this was the only choice for 2009 UD Goudey.
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Ohhh I would be sooo pissed. They could have done something different.
It might have been a better idea to slab these & insert redemption cards in the packs.
As little as authentication seems to mean today, I would still want the PSA/DNA sticker on my autographed buyback.