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Permalink Reply by Guy on September 21, 2021 at 12:01am

Well, sign up to as many news letters as possible and google your fav bands :)

On anther note, I hope to get approved for a new private group "Direct Autograph Sales Private posts", where we can post hard to get stuff and other things that should not be public.

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Permalink Reply by Frankie on September 21, 2021 at 12:04am

I signed up for the newsletters but they are often sent out quite late! For example, I got to know about the Tori Amos and Taylor Swift ones from here first, before I received their newsletters in my inbox later haha.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Davis Mooney on September 21, 2021 at 9:05am

There is absolutely no reason to make a private group. It will not stop the resellers, it will only hinder collectors. Resellers have a number of ways of finding stuff not just this forum. 

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Permalink Reply by Nick Dimeo on September 21, 2021 at 11:09am

Coincidentally, my feeling of people who hide their profiles on this public site is aggravating too. Guess we can’t see how bad their batting average really is.

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Permalink Reply by damageinc777 on September 21, 2021 at 11:34am

And exactly who gets invited into that? Do you get to chose? And if so why is that? There is no possible way to figure out all of who is flipping and who is just a collector like myself. Unless if they post they bought 10 copies or something like that.

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Permalink Reply by CS on September 21, 2021 at 1:10am

It's funny, but that's often the case. By the time you get the email from whoever has some new signed product, chances are it's old news and long sold out. Even as a record collector, if I know something is coming out, it's a matter of stalking websites waiting for stores to put them online. I think most artists rely on signed product to shift sales and/or get them in the charts, so it's almost expected that they'll do so. If you know a new release is coming, a la Taylor or Tori, you watch and wait.  

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Permalink Reply by Dan on September 21, 2021 at 2:04am

I have a few bookmarked pages I check several times a day, like the signed items on Rough Trade, Newbury and Amazon. 

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Permalink Reply by 216 to 313 on September 21, 2021 at 2:20am

I look here every day, then check Newbury, then I go to  Merchbar and search “signed” and click “Refine by Newrst”, then go to Recordstore.co.uk and do the same thing, and again at Amoeba 

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Permalink Reply by Jor-El on September 21, 2021 at 3:49am

I do the same things as mentioned above, but most of the times when I go here to post someone has already done so before me.

Newsletters with lots of recipients are usually sent out and/or being delivered in batches. Not everyone will receive them at the same time. I don't think the ones writing them always know this. So by the time you get them an offer can be long gone.

Most artists will also update their social media, so you're quicker to follow that instead of waiting for the newsletter.

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Permalink Reply by Dan on September 21, 2021 at 3:58am

Agreed, Twitter notifications are a must but can quickly become overwhelming if you have too many accounts you set up alerts for, so you have to be selective.

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Permalink Reply by damageinc777 on September 21, 2021 at 5:35am

In my case I collect vinyl also. So I am always surfing band sites and run across autographed stuff from time to time which isn't always sent out via mailing lists. Which I will post up here.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on September 21, 2021 at 6:30am

Social media can play a big role. It's of ten the first heads-up. Obviously, you can't follow every artist under the sun (not would you probably want t0), but fan response can be enough sometimes too. Like Guy said, mailing lists are also a good way to get the early word. And of course monitoring the usual suspects (Newbury, JB Hi-Fi, Recordstore UK, Banquet, etc).

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