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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 5, 2019 at 8:14am

Typical Ebay kitchen-table forger forgeries.

Check out these final-bid prices from Ebay seller Kittiesrock11-8 for numerous William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy "autographs."

The final bid prices are reflective of this junk.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 5, 2019 at 8:23am

Sellers of kitchen-table forgeries are all over Ebay.

With Ebay so heavily-populated with delusional autograph collectors and impulse buyers, kitchen-tale forgers are well aware of just how easy it is to sell forgeries on Ebay.

Check out this laughable Ronald Reagan.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/President-Ronald-Reagan-signed-3x5-index-c...

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Permalink Reply by B. Anderson on July 5, 2019 at 8:48am

Their Alexandra Moltke's are beyond pathetic. They have sold numerous of those. (She is an uncommon signature.)

One negative feedback on their page said that the buyer had submitted several to PSA and that were rejected. Hard to believe someone would be aware of PSA and buy such obvious forgeries, but clearly they have sold a couple hundred of their forgeries, so a sucker is born every day.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 5, 2019 at 9:24am

For sure.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 5, 2019 at 9:35am

Here is that negative feedback.  The seller paid $9.99 for this.  That's why they submitted it to PSA.

You can click your mouse on the below image to get a closer view.

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Permalink Reply by B. Anderson on July 5, 2019 at 12:40pm

I used to frequently call the seller on their shenanigans, and I would often be met with brief, foul attacks. I am blocked from communicating with them now.

This seller is a good example of being able to just look at a seller's items and tell visually by their activity that they are crooks.

• Numerous super cheap items--if it is that cheap, something is wrong;
• Many rare or highly desired names at low prices;
• Scarce items that are plentiful (the numerous Moltke's)--this is the one that drew my attention to the creep;
• Strange patterns. With the numerous Moltkes, it was an endless sea of index cards signed to random, different people--like she is really sending all these note cards in the mail to one creep under numerous names.
• Lack of authentication--not even the fake home-made COA's.
• Similar look to autographs. Even without looking closely at the details of each or knowing them, they all seem to originate from one hand -- there is a certain underlying slant or style;
• All have similar medium - many same, similar, cheap note cards, regardless of who it is - similar pens used.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on July 5, 2019 at 12:46pm

Nice post, B. Anderson.

Imagine selling numerous Shatner/Nimoy dual-autograph items for between $16.00 and $20.00 and claiming they're authentic.

We will continue to call these people out!!!

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Permalink Reply by Donna Marie West on August 18, 2019 at 5:16pm

I am a huge fan of the original Dark Shadows and paid nearly $80 for an autographed Alexandra Moltke index card from this seller. I was so happy. Then some time later I saw he had more and more listings of index cards in her name, several also like mine, signed to a fan named Mike. They decreased in price right down to Buy It Now for $19.99. After noting that the seller sold several I messaged him and asked exactly how many he had signed by her as I might be interested in several. My reply was that she was a family friend and he was in a position to acquire several. I never replied back but being relatively new to autograph collecting, I knew I was taken. Now there is another seller who sells similar autographs, including Star Trek and Alexandra Moltke by the username of ‘autographed_bookplates01’ and I wonder if this is the same individual. 

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on August 18, 2019 at 5:21pm

Sorry to hear you were burned. If they're selling the same things they are probably the same people or part of the same forgery group.

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Permalink Reply by B. Anderson on August 20, 2019 at 7:44am

Yes, the others are fake too, from the similar seller! I agree it could be same seller, but not sure. There is one that also has very small signed photos with many by Moltke, and I believe those all to be fake as well, and they routinely have large volumes.

I emailed the guy who runs the Collinsport Historical Society several items asking him to publicize it, since it is a widely followed blog, but the guy could care less--doesn't even bother to respond, very sad, a very odd fellow to ignore something that is costing people money and heartache. If you have something like that that is a community-oriented site, you kind of have a moral responsibility to help disseminate that information.

The seller who is the subject of this post even had a photo of Kathryn Leigh Scott from House of Dark Shadows that was "signed" by Alexandra Moltke, even though of course it is not Moltke in the future, she had quit Dark Shadows, and she does not appear in the film.

Their is a seller on their with an Alexandra Moltke in the $300-400 range that I believe to be genuine.

Since you bought from this person, do you have their name or email address by any chance you could share? If it has been within 180 days, you could try a dispute with Paypal.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on August 20, 2019 at 8:23am

Wouldn't "family friend" be a good excuse to NOT rack someone's autograph for profit? I never understood that lie or variations of it. It doesn't make as much sense as forgers and scammers think it does.

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Permalink Reply by B. Anderson on August 20, 2019 at 2:28pm

Agreed, but it is hard to come up with a legitimate excuse why you would have so many autographs of one person that you can sell cheaply.

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