Can An Art Dealer Value A Work of Art on Ebay Higher than What It Sold For?

If an artist sells a painting on ebay for 99 cents can their Art dealer issue a Certificate of Authenticity, to the buyer, that values the painting at $200?

a certificate of authenticity is a relatively meaningless document. Basically when I issue a cert. of auth. it is like an promise from me (or the printer who makes copies of my work) that the work is made of the materials we say it is, that I will only produce as many copies as I say I will and that it is in fact a work by me. You can SAY the work is worth anything – I can pick up a stick in the yard and say “I’ll sell it to you for $5,000.00 and I will give you a certificate saying that I sold it to you for that amount.” It doesn’t mean that the stick is actually worth $5,000.00 to anyone anywhere else.
A Cert of Auth is not the same as a certified appraisal. A certified appraisal is provided by a bonded, certified and trained art resource who establishes the ACTUAL REAL MARKET value of a piece of art based on note worthiness of the artist, provenance, sales history, known body of work and how many similar works by the same person have actually sold or re-sold for what actual amounts to collectors, museums, corporations or other entities. A certified appraisal stands as an official document against the authority of which one may buy insurance for a work which if lost or destroyed one may then file a claim for value.

Extremely cool graffiti art! (200 Meters!)

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