U2 signed guitar... Can I please get some opinions?

Hello everybody

An auction house have this u2 signed guitar in the catalog for their next auction. As a u2 collector myself with years of knowledge in u2graphs I do have my own clear thoughts about these piece. But I would like to hear what other people with knowledge in u2graphs thinks of this guitar..

Thanks in advance..

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Permalink Reply by Rich on August 4, 2013 at 9:20am

Just buy this one for $5000 instead. Much better deal for sure. And even more distinctly signed in the same hand.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIGNED-U2-GUITAR-AND-CASE-AN-UNBELIEVABLE-C...

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Permalink Reply by Vestland on August 4, 2013 at 9:32am

haha... yes I saw this on ebay. plain awful! There is not many authentic U2 signed guitars out there... I believe I can remember to have seen about 8 fully signed in the last 10 years.(2 of them were also signed by Green Day). There might have been a few more which I can`t remember right now, But considering the fact that I browse for u2 graphs more or less daily that is not a great amount.. And the fact that they refuse to sign guitars too (only very rarely for charity) wont make them more common to show up either...

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Permalink Reply by Rich on August 4, 2013 at 9:36pm

Hey, at least this one is under $1000. Seller apparently took the photos of it with a camera he made himself.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U2-Bono-The-Edge-larry-mullen-adam-clayton-...

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Permalink Reply by Vestland on August 6, 2013 at 2:21pm

Thanks to you all for your opinions. I forwarded them to the auction and this lot has finally been withdrawn:)

The bids were up to $1375 incl bp with 3 days left, but with the help of your knowledge no buyer is gonna waste his/her hard earned cash on this trash!!

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Permalink Reply by Rich on August 6, 2013 at 2:34pm

Good to hear. I'm glad they did the right things. Now if only Ebay would pull the fake guitars listed there . . .

But they probably won't.

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Permalink Reply by Vestland on August 6, 2013 at 2:59pm

Yes, it makes me happy to see they pull things like this after been put to their attention.

But I do expect auction houses to take authenticity issues very serious. People pay a huge amount in buyers premium and its the auction`s job/responsiblity to keep it clear of forgerys.

It makes me furious to see poor forgeries like this slip under their radar. And as we remember with the Julien`s Mj/bush-scandal we know that not all auctions take this issue serious enough if it`s enough money involved. So I still appreciate everytime a bad item is beeing pulled before someone gets burned!

Yeah, those guitars on ebay is another joke..... Hopefully they will be pulled soon too. I Haven`t reported them yet, but I`ll see what I can do.