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WARNING: Fake Cristiano Ronaldo Signatures are being sold by the CR7 Museum in Madeira!
Hi, I recently saw a post on this forum from a user called 'Sandor Beres' asking for advice on if they should purchase a signed CR7 football from his museum, which is located in Funchal, Madeira. Unfortunately you can no longer reply to the thread due to it being closed... but I just wanted to put out a warning to anyone else thinking about getting one of these pieces of memorabilia.
I have personally visited the CR7 Museum, its his official museum that he uses to store all of his personal awards, along with replicas of team trophies, it is located on the Island of Madeira, where he was born, in the city of Funchal, his hotel is attached to the museum and there is a Gift Store also in the building, the gift store sells items that have been 'signed' by Cristiano Ronaldo himself...
As I've said I visited the museum in 2019 and went to the gift store, I was surprised to see them offering the 'Signed' items for such a low price, signed shirts for 150 euros, signed balls for 50 euros, and signed prints for only 10 euros, I didn't have too much experience with autographs back then, but the price threw up huge red flags for me, getting something ACTUALLY signed by Ronaldo costs minimum £400-£500, my dad also told me not to buy anything because the staff of the museum REFUSED to offer a COA with the item, stating that it was definitely signed by Ronaldo, these is an example of one of these items listed on eBay at the minute, I'll leave a photograph of the item below:
When I returned back to the hotel I decided to check TripAdvisor to see if anyone had said anything about this, and surprisingly there are many 1 star reviews from angry people that have bought from the CR7 store, gone back to the UK or the US and tried to get their product authenticated by JSA, Beckett or AFTAL, all of which were declined, with the authenticators saying that the signatures were fakes...
Personally I find it unbelievable that Cristiano Ronaldo's own museum, in the city where he was born and personally endorsed by him sells fake autographs. I'm not sure how they do the autographs but I'd assume that someone is employed by the museum to copy Ronaldo's signature, or in terms of the prints they might be using a mechanical arm to sign them I'm guessing. It just goes to show that if its too good to be true then it probably is, even when it looks 100% real...
This goes out as a warning to the guy that posted about buying the ball on here the other week, I really hope that you didn't purchase it, and I would advise against buying memorabilia from the Cristiano Ronaldo Museum
Thanks, - Jacob
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Permalink Reply by Dan Morris on
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Great post Jacob and thank you for putting this up. I said on the now closed thread that the signatures were not real and something did not add up and it's good to see you show this. I only hope Ronaldo will put a stop to this himself soon and others do not get taken in. Great work
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Thanks Dan, personally I’m unsure how it works exactly but there’s definitely something fishy going on, and let’s be honest it will most likely continue, Ronaldo is too busy with 1000 other things
He actually does visit the museum and sign some stuff, There’s a video on twitter of him signing a white ball, I’ve noticed some of these are listed on trusted sites like A1 Sporting Memorabilia, as a previous customer of theirs I feel like dropping them a message with my findings on the CR7 museum, as they may not have known before investing in some of the products and selling them in display cases.
My guess is that given he visits the museum sometimes, maybe he will sign anywhere between 10-50 items at most, but there’s far too much in that store for it all to be signed by him, and given I’ve seen many declined by JSA, I think there may be someone else behind the scenes signing for him...
Unethical but the warning signs are there!
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I posted on the now deleted thread and how I thought they were not genuine I know on some club cards towards the end of his time inthe UK his brother used to sign for him very dissapointed with him
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Very interesting information Alan, maybe his brother has something to do with this if he lives on the island of Madeira still...
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Below is a picture of Ronaldos brother Hugo who runs the museum store. The signature on his jersey looks very similar to the signatures sold by the museum store.
Here is another photo of him wearing a Ronaldo signed Portugal jersey after the Champions League final 2018. If this is not Ronaldos real signature, then his brother surely enjoys to run around in jerseys with fake signatures...
It is true that Ronaldo usually signed his name with a more round "R" but the rest of "onaldo" looks pretty similar. Below is an example from icons.com
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In these pictures the "R" also does not look as round anymore as it used to be...
I am not sure whether the museum really sells fakes. Maybe the authentication companies merely are used to his "older" signature?
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And another example from a jersey signed today (10/7/2020)... clearly closer to the museum signatures than to the old Icons signature...
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The first 2 examples are clear fakes imo. The icons one is what you'd expect
The thing with Ronaldo is he also signs an "abbreviated" version of his signature. That's the sort of signature fans will get when he's approached on the street or at signings. His "complete" signature is pretty much limited only to signings he's under contract for.
Here is an example of his so-called short signature I have.
The second item is his full signature on an authentic 2017-18 RM kit
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Theres a photo of Ronaldo holding one of them as well
What is the conclusion on these ?
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I was tempted to buy one of these, so I checked the museum website out. Turns out the original price was only 70 Euro (bad sign already), but they were sold out.
Conmen or maybe people who don't know better are selling it for at least triple the amount (still not anywhere near Beckett-authenticated prices).
Pretty disgusting that Ronaldo would allow this, but Messi allowed his brother to sign autos on his behalf for a year or so, items people pay thousands for, so it seems to have become a common practice.
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any updates? I bought signed jersey 2 days ago and i even got an declaration. I heard that his brother wich is the owner got accused of fraud back in late 2020, so i think he learned from his mistakes
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The signature on the ticket looks pretty damn accurate, but the one on the jersey looks way off imo. There are some really good frauds on Ebay who do a much better job (so much so that most people would think it's real). The only red flags are the prices they're letting it go for and the sheer abundance (guy has a bunch of Ronaldo, Messi, Maradona, Pele, Federer, Nadal memorabilia).
https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?sid=house.of.sport&isRefine=true...
Stay away from this character. Perhaps only experts at Beckett or PSA could see through his forgeries but regulars would have no chance.
I bought something off him (another account) 7 years ago when I didn't know any better, plus he didn't make it quite as obvious that he was a charlatan.
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