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Permalink Reply by Jack rowley on March 24, 2013 at 7:27am

Please help

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Permalink Reply by Bjarne Soderholm on March 24, 2013 at 8:38am

This is another fake. All the autographs are way off from what they should look like. Sorry.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on March 24, 2013 at 9:11am

Now I'm almost certain that one is a UK Midlands forgery.  None of the signatures are even remotely close.

Just an FYI:  Any full-band U2 signed item that has a starting bid of $15 is probably not real.  You'll come across a lot of them on Ebay, because those are the midlands forgeries.  You'll see Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, etc with similarly low starting bids.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on March 24, 2013 at 9:22am

Here are more bad examples - different seller name, same forger.

This one is from Ebay seller ianstanley123:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U2-LP-Sleeve-SIGNED-/261189189414?pt=UK_Rec...

Another one from ebay seller lisacheng2010:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINYL-LP-RECORD-SLEEVE-SIGNED-BY-U2-/221205...

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Permalink Reply by Carl Cox on March 24, 2013 at 3:46pm

see if you can find one where the bottom loop tucks a little more under the "B" on "Bono"

30% of being authentic

keep looking and let me know how your search goes, you are going to be a pro before this is done :)

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Permalink Reply by Rich on March 24, 2013 at 3:54pm

I've noticed that it seems to be increasingly difficult to find an authentic full band U2 signed item from any era for under $1000 these days, unless it's a particularly mediocre item.

It might be a better idea to try to target a Bono/Edge signed item.  They're decidedly the best signers of the band and the easiest to obtain.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on March 24, 2013 at 4:22pm

Just for reference, here are some on Ebay that represent solid authentic examples in my opinion.  The prices are decidedly inflated to some extent on all of these, but you get the idea - getting the entire band isn't going to be cheap.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U2-SIGNED-ZOOROPA-TOUR-BOOK-1993-/160995826...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U2-Green-Day-FULLY-signed-New-Orleans-Saint...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U2-WAR-VERY-RARE-FULLY-HAND-SIGNED-UK-CONCE...

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