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Permalink Reply by James Hay on April 14, 2019 at 7:22am

£2400 paid to you for 2 fakes fact. $3146 

You are a fraud and a manipulative individual. You profess to be this person that you are not then hide behind others 

yes I used a pseudonym what’s yours eric ??

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 14, 2019 at 7:27am

I'm sorry, but to which of you am I speaking? James or Mark? Mark was very nice to me, well...generally. I don't believe "him" anymore. You, Mark Merry, openly confessed to trying to pass yourself off as two people in this thread, lying while trying to tag team me I guess, and I am the fraud? I hide? I have one account and one name - can you state the same? 

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Permalink Reply by SaraPolanska on April 14, 2019 at 7:34am

Sorry James or Mark but from the beginning you try to attack on the best people I knew and helped me and others here a lot. No arguments, just insulting them. You are hiding behind a pseudonym. It's not showing you in good light. Erik is an amazing man who always helped when someone asked and I believe he would solve it in your favor if you act normally.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on April 14, 2019 at 7:52am

Thank you for the very kind words Sara. In this single instance, considering what has been done with intent over the course of months, my position will not change. It is a little too late to "...make nice...". Besides, I prefer not to deal with admitted/proven liars.

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Permalink Reply by James Hay on April 14, 2019 at 8:18am

This is my last post.  Anger has most certainly got the better of me. The disappointment has overridden any sense or proportion regards this situation.

To Eric I apologise unreservedly to others I have real interest to be honest 

i guess when the 2 items became in question as to their authenticity and I contacted Eric all I received was that I was happy to have purchased them and that time I sought other opinions. All of this is indeed true, however a little empathy  to my plight would not of gone amiss . All I felt was Eric by saying this was in fact closing any door with regards a refund partial or otherwise.

this of course do not excuse my actions and now regret the manner in which I handled the situation.

I do believe Eric to be a genuine man but feel lessons on all fronts need to be learned.

I will make no further conments in the public arena on this matter but felt it necessary and appropriate to apologise to Eric

please understand this. This is in no way an attempt to try and smooth the waters, just when you know when you’re wrong you should admit it

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Permalink Reply by James Hay on April 14, 2019 at 10:42am

Thanks Tim I appreciate this balanced response.

I know I made a error of judgement and regret making the comments regarding Eric but as I have said  I believe that when I brought this further information to Eric several weeks back he did by his response imply that in know way was he going to entertain any recourse to him for the sale.

However to the act in the way I did a and not give eric the chance is something perhaps I should have done.

to show me no empathy when he knew the amount of money I paid was hurtful

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Permalink Reply by Paul on April 14, 2019 at 9:25pm

Tracks uk?

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Permalink Reply by MarkG on April 14, 2019 at 10:49am

Dear all

To bring this all into context, 2 weeks ago this style of autograph had passed the highest arbiters (outside of the Bowie camp) consideration and only came to light when a couple of these Corinne's (his pa) recently came onto the market.

I made Eric aware a few weeks ago (via Andy at Bowieautograph) of a new fact,  that Bowie had sometimes signed stuff right handed (he is left handed) and that maybe/possibly made sense of some of the anomalies/oddities that cropped up now and again.

As an example, please look at this letter:

In the above letter, Corinne has copied Bowie's hand (almost to the T) in the writing of the word Edward.

Andy at Bowie autograph has within the last week learnt that she did the occasional "secretarial" when DB was heavily snowed under with other commitments, evidently it was something that he was personally against and the reason why there are so few Corinne "Bowie" autographs.

If this appears to be a "clique" reaction then I apologise but I am not prepared to see a really decent man's reputation be trashed or tarnished when he has been guided by other people as far as authenticity is concerned.

So many people who have visited AML have saved $1000's because Eric has spotted the most microbic discrepancy (including bothering to go back into sellers history etc to check for past sales).... all without charge to the people he has kindly advised.

Anyway, I hope this is the end of this.

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Permalink Reply by just some dude on April 14, 2019 at 11:08am

Painful for all involved, but a great reminder that unless you saw it signed, you can never truly be 100% one way or the other, opinions be damned.

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Permalink Reply by just some dude on April 14, 2019 at 11:47am

To be clear, Im not advocating right or wrong on anyone’s part - that’s, thankfully, none of my business.

My point is/was that forgers are getting scary good and that unless you personally watch an item being signed, you can only have degrees of certainty - not 100% ironclad opinions.

These sigs got the best of everybody involved, to be sure.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on April 15, 2019 at 1:10pm

+1

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Permalink Reply by Adam Halloran on April 14, 2019 at 11:29am

Here is the posting Eric had made detailing the degree he had gone to authenticating these signatures 3 years ago. I think it is fair to see he was trying to do his due dilligence on these items at that time.

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/bowie-bowie-and-oth...

This has been one crazy post, and it was delivered in a way that makes sympathy hard initially to have when it comes off deceitful. However the amount of money spent enlight of the new evidence on this style of signature should still hold compassion to both parties involved. Eric seems to me to be an honorable man, I don't believe he would intentionally deceive anyone here. 

I do hope there can be terms of understanding made between both parties here however. It is sad all ways around. 

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