PRODUCT & GENERAL CLAIMS

Product Claim and General Claim Examples

The Old Time Wooden Nickel Company of San Antonio, Texas, made the unverifed claim of holding the world's record for the largest wooden nickel. Based upon RAI's research, findings, and certification, this claim was verified and later published worldwide by Ripley's Believe It Or Not. As in the movie, Miracle on 34th Street, the U.S. Post Office recognizes this claim as well and has given the company its own commemorative cancellation stamp.

Lane Automotive makes model cars. On their Shelby GT-350 1/18 scale model car, (erroneously known by the public as a "Shelby Mustang") Lane made the unverified written claim that this model was an "Exact Detail" in accuracy and that this model car "...is the finest 1/18 scale collectable available." After RAI performed its research, this claim was verified and is now certified by RAI as genuine.

While not strictly a product claim, RAI has entered the concrete authentication arena. RAI was presented with 2 different hunks of concrete, one allegedly from the Berlin Wall and the other(s) from a racetrack in California. RAI flexed its research muscle, scratched its collective, creative head, and found a solution to a unique problem. The owners were happy to receive the news that the pieces of concrete allegedly from the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany and Turn Nine of the Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California have been authenticated and certified by RAI as genuine. (A piece of the wall from Turn Nine is pictured.)

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RAI Corporation
An Authentication & Anti-Counterfeiting Company
9207 Arbor Branch Drive #111
Dallas, TX 75243-6308

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RAI Corporation is an independent company and neutral third party that authenticates (provides authentication) and certifies (provides certification) the genuineness of fine art, crafts, manufactured limited edition products, and collectibles. RAI provides car authentication, automobile authentication, auto authentication, and certification for verifiable product claims and general claims. As an authenticator, RAI helps protect buyers and sellers from fakes, counterfeits, replicas and the confusion that they bring to the marketplace. A large part of RAI's business encompasses anti-counterfeiting measures. These measures are necessary because of the ease that technology has brought to counterfeiting. Almost anyone can counterfeit any product or collectible. Collectible is sometimes also spelled collectable with the plural being collectables or collectibles. The dictionary favors both spellings. RAI specializes in authenticating fine art, including paintings, sculpture, pottery, and jewelry. Also RAI authenticates vintage sportcars, including Carroll Shelby vehicles such as GT-350, GT-500, sometimes known as Shelby Mustangs, Shelby Cobras including Shelby Cobra 427 and 289 models, autographs, vintage photographs, and limited craft items, sports memorabilia, pieces of famous places and landmarks. Claims that products accomplish a certain end result or have certain qualities will be authenticated by RAI if the claim can be verified by RAI through sufficent evidence. RAI also specializes in Carroll Hall Shelby collectables and car racing memorabilia, including Cobra, GT-350, GT-500, Shelby Mustangs, Shelby Series 1, and Daytona Coupe racecars. The Shelby 427 Cobra S/C and 289 Cobra models have a large following. RAI guarantees its authentication through the "RAI Court Guarantee". If the genuineness of the RAI authenticated item is ever legitimately challenged, RAI go to court anywhere in the United States to prove and protect the authentication.