Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Eugene Monaghan on December 15, 2022 at 10:17am

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jason H on December 15, 2022 at 10:50am

unacceptable.. we are supposed to take a written word from someone who has scammed his fanbase the last 4 years? he needs to do more.. Sign a few items on video and hold them up clearly visible for the camera. That should be worth $3k and up going forward. I'm sure they will stop autopen use. It will be up to consumers to research before purchasing on the secondary market. We still need proof Bob Dylan is actually hand signing everything. I refuse to trust the word of a fraudster 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jane Bond on December 15, 2022 at 11:00am

Absolutely, unfortunately the word of an old man and his paid team are not acceptable. Neither is the get out of jail statement that Castle did know.  At worst culpable and at least failure in duty to have an inbuilt check that he was signing  personally to validate the certificate of authenticity which Washington Green have signed. .  

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jane Bond on December 15, 2022 at 1:00pm

Which version of Bob is this signature? 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by 5816nick on December 15, 2022 at 10:57am

So Bob the fraudster asks the rest of his proven fraudulant  team to check and confirm that all the other prints they sold in the last 14 years were in fact hand signed by him.... this is a pretty laughable as definitive proof when they knowingly sold autopenned editions to Castle Fine Art / Washington Green - passing them off as being hand signed .....

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jason H on December 15, 2022 at 11:16am

I honestly would be shocked if they attempted to sell more autopenned prints going forward. If just 1 were proven to slip out down the line, it would restart this whole mess. I just cant see Dylan and Castle risking it a second time Why would they want to risk losing their cash cow after that has come out. It would be insane. The information floating around the web will be in place long after Dylan is gone. I'm sure they are monitoring this thread as well. We will never let this blow over. However, they still cant be trusted. They have completely lost all integrity and a silly little typed document proves nothing. this very well could be the sequel to Simon and Schuster's COA.. the difference is, we had no reason to doubt Simon and Schuster until customers received their items. In this case, customers already have their items. The fraudulent transactions have already been made. They need to do everything possible to regain consumers trust. especially if they want to continue selling items for thousands of dollars. I just do not see that effort at all. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Marky Molloy on December 15, 2022 at 11:37am

Thank you Eugene for the message from Dylan.

Who are Dylan's 'my team' - lawyers, friends, art experts, his son Jesse?

How do 'Black Buffalo' tie in - are employees there in the team?

At the least, the team should have tried to provide a minimum of proof that the prints issued during lockdown - namely, Asia in 2021 and Mondo Scripto in 2020 - were signed before it. 

Dylan, or his mouthpieces, are hoping to release more prints after this statement. Really! It will be a much tougher assignment. 

Dylan, in his self-sure, dismissive youth, would have savaged the statement as phoney.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jane Bond on December 15, 2022 at 12:52pm

What interesting questions.  From memory Black Buffalo is the name and emblem shown in the photograph in the Mondo Scripto Catalogue where he is sat down writing. Some one on here posted the photo to see if anyone could date it. Black Buffalo is named on the certificate of authenticity attached to the back of his limited edition prints in conjunction with Washington Green . Black Buffalo Ironworks badge is also shown on his gates / ironwork.  They are all marking each others homework ! Not acceptable. No independence 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Marky Molloy on December 16, 2022 at 1:28am

Been a bit slow on the 'Black Buffalo' since I now remember and see the name's down as Printer and co-Publisher on my two C of As that I'm waiting to return. Envelope(s) not yet arrived.

You're right though. It's a small coterie marking each others' authenticity. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by PFCollector on December 15, 2022 at 11:49am

Haaahaaa what a joke. He never mentions that he never secretarial signed anything. It was obvious the Mondo prints and some others were hand signed but in a weird handwriting that didn't look like his. So you only said you never autopenned the others, nothing about if he himself signed them.

It says he will hand sign them as he has done in the past... that only means he's hand signed some. He doesn't specify he'll hand sign them like ALL the other ones in the past. 

On top of that, none of that matters. Why would anyone take a guy who tried robbing multiples peoples word on anything? His word is garbage. His word proves absolutely nothing. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Matt M. on December 15, 2022 at 1:06pm

100% agree- insult to injury here. Nothing in that statement definitively reflects that my 2018 Mondo was hand-signed by Bob Dylan. Very carefully worded and only thing definitive is that Dylan is trying to cover his (and Castle’s) a$$ to mitigate damages.

So he won’t put in writing that he did hand sign the rest and list those series by name? And Castle did not conduct due diligence to witness the signings? No explanation as to why the signatures changed suddenly in 2018? Yet we are supposed to accept this as resolving the matter? Give me a break. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by PFCollector on December 15, 2022 at 3:15pm

Agreed. They worded that perfectly to cover their ass. It doesnt say he personally hand signed all of the ones in the past. It just says from now on he'll hand sign them like he has done in the past... has done on how many? 1, 1000, all of them? No explanation of why his signature suddenly changed around the same time he said he decided to stop hand signing them himself. It's hard for me to believe those aren't secretarial. If he's willing to rip off buyers by not hand signing why would he care of its autopen or secretarial?

Plus he's greedy enough to rip off fans for $600 after making $500 mill selling his catalog, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's greedy enough to not want to pay the person to sign his prints anymore, once he figured out autopens exist. Why pay a salary if you can buy a robot to do the job? So obviously I can't prove anything but my theory is he had someone else signing that weird handwriting change, then figured out he could use autopen instead and went to that. Then his greed finally caught up with him.

Plus it doesn't negate the fact that many people will suffer huge losses if they ever tried to resell them to get rid of something they no longer feel is real. I'd assume nobody who researched these before buying, and seen they had fake signatures on some, would decide to buy, or pay close to retail. Granted there's no guarantee something will hold value... but that would piss me off if I owned one as well.  

• ▶ Reply

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 98
• 99
• 100
• 101
• 102
• …
• 115
• Next ›
• Page