That alone is enough to get them out of trouble. We bought the real jersey, here's the receipt to prove it. We sent it to get cut up with this security company, and here's the receipt for that. We had the company cutting the jersey place them in a ziplock and with the same security company...
You have to keep in mind that lawyers for the card companies are no dummies. The employee are an easy fix with just one signature before you start working. The government covered up the existence of area 51 for years. Not the same, I know, but you don't think companies didn't learn from that...
Beleive it or not I only have less than a dozen multi colored patches of Ripken in my collection of over 1000 jersey/patch/bat. I did not buy the card jumping up and down thinking I have a piece of jersey/patch/bat or whatever touched or worn by Cal Ripken. The card itself is serial numbered to...
Okay, a quarter of a million they paid for the jersey. Add security salary for transporting this jersey from the auction house to storage, from storage to the chop block and so on. The two times (maybe more) that they moved this jersey already posses a threat to the authenticity of "this" jersey...