Musicians Who Sell Their Signatures In Shop.

We now have a Musician-Direct Autograph Sales Forum where you can post individual discussions of new offerings. It's a big change—and a big improvement. We closed this discussion after 8 years but it will always be available to read.

The new system has been in place for 2 months now and it's working well.

This video shows you how easy the new forum is to use.

You can follow the forum and be notified of new signings exclusively! And you can enter a musician's name in the forum's search box and find any discussions about them.

Be sure to click the Follow link at the bottom of the list of discussions.

Try it...I think you'll like it.

Steve Cyrkin

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Though I recall a member posting a blog asking about this a while ago, I could not relocate it for my purpose in this discussion.

It can be nice when one stumbles upon a musician's shop (via their website), to see that they are selling their autographs. I figured this could grow as a wee database for listing those musicians who partake in this.

I recently recieved a couple press photos signed in ballpoint from John Mayall's website (http://www.johnmayall.com/merch.html). I am also aware that you can purchase signed CDs from Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits(http://peternoone.com/store/). John 5 ( formerly Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie guitarist) sells various items signed, with an option to dedicate.

So, does anyone else know of this being done by other musicians?

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Permalink Reply by Mike T on February 1, 2016 at 11:27am

I've stopped posting stuff there. Good guys and all but way too greedy. One guy ordered 150 Derek Jeter books from Barnes and noble and they cancelled everyone's orders because it was oversold. They're just looking to flip everything, not collect.

Permalink Reply by Rich on February 1, 2016 at 11:30am

I had a feeling that site was more swarmed with dealers.

Permalink Reply by Mike T on February 1, 2016 at 11:33am

All of the active members are dealers, and most of them want top dollar for their stuff. Some want even more than top dollar.

Permalink Reply by Rich on February 1, 2016 at 11:37am

Does flipping this kind of stuff really work that well? Any time I sell something from Newbury, or an artists' store - even a desirable item - I tend to get back around what I paid for it.

Permalink Reply by Mike T on February 1, 2016 at 11:44am

Depends on the name, in my experience it takes a long time to make very little money for the effort. But that's what they do all the time so it's probably less effort for them.

Permalink Reply by Rich on February 1, 2016 at 11:54am

Basically like ticket scalping. They win some, they lose some - but they're despicable regardless.

Permalink Reply by Christopher Thompson on February 1, 2016 at 11:58am

It does really depend. Ive ordered 2 of a an item before and sold the other one but not more than that. - i started doing that when my Brian Wilson CD came from Newbury completely smudged and I didn't have a back up. You have to have an idea of which artists will be worth money - they likely hold on to legacy artists until they die and then post them for sale. I don't have a problem with trading or even selling an extra to help fund your hobby, but it drives me nuts when people buy out the whole shop because it screws everyone else. There is a huge difference between a collector and an opportunist.

Permalink Reply by Steve Viola on February 1, 2016 at 12:02pm