Good Luck Selling Autographed Slabs In California

The law will need some tweaking down the road but it really isn't that bad. I went to the state website and read the law itself. That ebay example you provide is nonsense. The law doesn't require the COA to come from a third party. The dealer can make it himself after he buys the item. He only needs to make sure he takes note of the seller's name and address when he buys it. He doesn't need a chain of custody going back to the time of signing, just to the last guy to own it.

Basically it is saying that a dealer (regular folks are exempt from the law) needs to officially take responsibility for autographed items he sells as authentic. In other words, it is requiring him to in writing state that this is an authentic item and he is responsible if it turns out to be a forgery. I'm certain that in practice if a legitimate dealer gets fooled himself and sells a fake item (that he thinks is real) that he just needs take it back and refund the buyers money if it is shown to be fake. The police won't have time or interest to prosecute someone in that situation. But it does allow them to go after a seller that profits off of selling fake items intentionally, or through willful ignorance of the source of his items.

All this agony over the new laws can be avoided simply by selling only genuine material.

I tend to agree.