Neautograph.com Forgeries!

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Permalink Reply by Sandie Strickland on October 3, 2010 at 10:00am

Thanks Tricia

I am still trying to get my refund!
If they were UK based they would have had the Office of fair Trading prosecuting them!

Sandie

Permalink Reply by Bill Panagopulos on October 4, 2010 at 7:30am

Sandie -

Consider a complaint to U.S. Postal Inspectors based in the area where the item was shipped (New York City). It's a long-shot but certainly better than the FBI. Years ago I had an agent friend track them to a post office box three blocks from his office (!) but frankly the scale of their fraud just isn't enough to get them involved in this case.

Best of luck.

Permalink Reply by JOEL BRIER on December 5, 2010 at 1:05pm

I to early on fell for neaautograph. They have been selling the same signed dead poster for over 4 years and have been contacted to look at at least 3 I purchased the very same poster on line advertised as the very last poster ever signed by the dead at the Soldier Field show after consulting authenticators and reading on this site ive learned enough to believe was ripped off.

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin on March 19, 2011 at 8:31pm

We received the email at the bottom of this comment from a member account set up in the name of Sam Finely. He claimed to actually be Sam Baxter, an attorney representing Neautograph. They demanded that we take down this discussion and anything else on Autograph Magazine Live! mentioning their name or their URL.

I declined, but offered for them to join the conversation. They declined and reiterated their demands, threatening to sue us, take down our Web sites, etc.

I didn't think it wasn't from an attorney, or anyone with any legal knowledge. I looked up the law firm, found it existed, emailed them, and was directed to the REAL Sam Baxter. This is what I received back (Mr. Baxter gave me permission to use his name.)

 

From: Sam Baxter [mailto:sbaxter@McKoolSmith.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:57 AM
To: Steve Cyrkin
Subject: Re: NE Autographs C&D

I have never heard of them. It is a complete fraud. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:53 AM, "Steve Cyrkin" a href="mailto:steve.cyrkin@autographmagazine.com">steve.cyrkin@autographmagazine.com> wrote:

Dear Mr. Baxter:

We received the message at the bottom of this email from someone claiming to be you and representing NE Autographs. The email address they used, however, was sam.finely@yahoo.com. Could you please confirm that it came from you?

 

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This is the message the fake Sam Baxter sent me:

Sam Finely reported the following issue on Autograph Magazine Live!

 

URL Reported:http://live.autographmagazine.com/?xg_source=msg_report

 

Issue:Fraud

 

Additional Information:To Whom It May Concern;

 

This letter  is to demand the removal  of a forum on your website forum listed below;

 

Neautograph.com Forgeries!

Posted by Sandie Strickland on June 15, 2010 at 3:31am in Authentication and Forgery Alert

 

We are the representing the proprietors of all copyright in a literary/artistic/musical work entitled to the operators of Neautograph.com.We have reserved  rights , to which was are expressed in material form. It has come to our attention that this forum entitled " Neautograph Forgies! " has a copyrighted name  which was not given permission or neither asked, nor granted consent to reproduce there name and  therefore constitutes infringement of their rights. In terms of the Copyright Statutes, we are entitled to an injunction against your continued infringement, as well as to recover damages from you for the loss we have suffered as a result of your infringing conduct.

 

We demand that you immediately  remove all infringing content and notify us in writing that you have done so, If not we will pursue financial and litigations  settlement  to compensate our client for the damages caused as a result of these slanderous statement

 

McKool &  Smith

Sam Baxter, Intellectual Property Litigator

Ph: 214.463.4840

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I'll tell the rest of the story later, but they tried to hijack our domain name and take down our Web sites! I kid you not. They tried to transfer our domain name to GoDaddy. I have never seen anything like it in my life. These are federal crimes they're committing...bizarre.

Has anyone else here been threatened by someone representing Neautograph?

If you have, please don't let them intimidate you. Contact me.

Permalink Reply by Michael Kasmar-AutographPros.com on March 19, 2011 at 9:09pm

Here's a link on what to do if you buy forgeries: 

http://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/what-to-do-if-you-...

Permalink Reply by mike aring on March 19, 2011 at 10:38pm

but all they sell are forgeries... sorry steve, i think you should fight this one, even if they try to go to court.. maybe we can get a fund going in case something actually happens in a court case!!!

Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin on March 19, 2011 at 11:17pm

It won't go to civil court. We will not remove information about them.

Permalink Reply by Brandon Mysinger on March 20, 2011 at 1:47am

Is the atty who's name they mis-used taking any possible action?

Permalink Reply by mike aring on March 20, 2011 at 5:38am

i had meant, if anything else does go to some kind of civil court case and you end up being out money...

Permalink Reply by ju on May 14, 2012 at 6:57am

Hi Guys, 

Just like many people, I've been robbed by Neautograph website... I've bought a 150$ autograph that I never received.. I sent them many emails but they do not respond anymore.

I'm located in Europe so I've no way to get my money back,

I've even called my Credit card company that would have be OK to cancel the credit but they need a real proof of the robbery from the police department, unfortunalty the police does not accept to take a claim for an autograph...

Please people living in the US, do something for this site which is making lot of profits by robbing people. I was thinking that such site and fake business would be impossible to exist and stay alive during years in the US, maybe I was wrong. :-(

Julien

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