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Ozzy Osbourne Authenticity......Opinions Please

Hello everyone,

I am up late this evening, but wanted to post a thread before i turn in. I was looking around on ebay, and with all the fakes that they seem to be paying a blind eye too, i have not really bothered posting forgeries here. There are just to many, and as others have pointed out, if its just one or two forgeries, the seller just may not know he has a few bad items. But then again, their are those that seem to be selling quite a few questionables.

If you wouldnt mind commenting on this Ozzy id appreciate it. It is but one of numerous strange autographs that this seller has listed. My personal opinion is that it doesnt resemble any Ozzy signature i have ever seen, and therefore i am confident its not authentic (i will no longer comment with slam dunk authenticity opinions, so for the time, i just will preface with the words "my opinion"). What are your thoughts? Could this and the other autographs i am going to list just from another time period? To me they look very strange, and the COAs are all from the UK, while the seller resides in Australia.

Please take a look if you dont mind. I have decided to take others advice and not list the seller or link to the page yet until i get some authenticity opinions. If the vote is a solid no good on these items, then i will of course list. But i dont want to give the seller a bad rep if indeed these are authentic items from a period im not familiar with. If they are bad, however, then this seller needs to be stopped.

(this is just one of the COAs as an example, all from the same place)

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on June 2, 2013 at 10:35pm

Here are some others for opinions:

Blue Oyster Cult

Brittney Spears

AC/DC-----These look off to me

Izzy Stradlin----Izzy can be messy for sure, but this is even overboard for him.

Katy Perry (i like the photo though)----Not an expert on her, but looks all wrong from what i have received

Iron Maiden

Nirvana---Dave i cant comment on, but the Krist looks off.

Ron Wood---Doesnt look right to me, although small and hard to see.

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Permalink Reply by dexter krieger on June 2, 2013 at 11:06pm

I've never seen a Katy Perry signature look like that. I really doubt that's authentic.

The one of AC/DC, I agree. It doesn't look right. For Angus Young's signature, instead of having the rest of his last name signed out, the seller just make a squiggly line. Malcolm Young's signature is a mess. No good

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Permalink Reply by James R. Altmann on June 3, 2013 at 2:18am

Of the signatures I am very familiar with, not a single one of these appear to be authentic in my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by matthew george on June 3, 2013 at 2:42am

I know the guy selling this garbage,he's uses his new updated COA and is probably the biggest distributor of forgeries in the UK and it looks now like also in australia,all his signed items are fake and has obtained all his items from known forgers in the midlands...keep away from this guy I don't understand how the authorities haven't been envolved,has anybody got the balls to report and stop him and close down his store?

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on June 3, 2013 at 3:17am

The Iron Maiden autographs is a joke, like the rest of the so called autographs that you have shown here.

This time there is no doubt that we are talking about a bad seller.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on June 5, 2013 at 10:31am

Sorry for the delay everyone. I had alot of trouble logging in the last few days.

After all the opinions confirming my suspicions, it seems this seller needs exposed.

He goes by:

metalmonkey27

Here is a link to the Blue Oyster Cult auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Blue-Oyster-Cult-Signed-30cm-x-22cm-Music-S...

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=Al...

This guy is just a bad apple. You guys have to take a look at his sold auctions over the last month. Look at the horrible horrible forgeries. And people bid and gave him great feedback. People are spending 100s on this fake crap. Look at this stuff. And this is just a small portion, he has sold so many.

some of the last 2 moths sales: