  In a recent Letter, Gurovitch and Sens studied the adsorption of a weakly
charged polyelectrolyte chain onto an oppositely charged colloidal particle. By
using a variational technique they found that the colloidal particle can adsorb
a polymer of higher charge than its own, and thus be ``overcharged.'' I argue
that the observed overcharging by a factor of 16/5 is indeed an artifact of the
approximations involved in the study. Moreover, I show that the existence of
overcharging depends crucially on the choice of the trial wave function,
contrary to their claim.
