Quote Originally Posted by Megatron View Post
Of course, but I refuse to pay overinflated prices for someone else's authoritative opinion when it doesn't make an item any more valuable to me because of it.
Well it does actually. The best example on TV would be Pawn Stars. They have all sorts of 'experts' they bring when they want to check something is real and these experts often offer the current market value. This is the way the world works - things are authenticated, you dont have to agree but this is what happens.