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You notice that somebody has a fake autograph displayed proudly on their wall, maybe picture of a current sitcom star or perhaps something from a bigger league...A signed copy of Sgt. Peppers perhaps with signatures you recognise as coming from Southern California which might represent a major financial loss for them.
Do you play it safe and say nothing? Or would you take a more proactive stance that might actually help the guy get his money back? How would you play it? Have you ever been in a similar situation?
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I'll take the Abbey Road where the cat peed on George's signature, thank you!
It was Cathy Sarver's, one of the Apple Scruff's albums.
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I've honestly decided when MJ fans are proud of something I know is bad, that I say nothing (unless I know them really well). I've had fans get super po'd at me and one even harassed me by stalking my FB and posting on it constantly trying to prove me wrong after I mentioned he owned a secretarial (I had to block him), then he went to calling my home (blocked that as well)! I said after that there was good reason MJ locked himself behind big gates and away from some of them lol. Carry on with your secretarial sigs. Not my concern.
If someone does email me though and has a concern with their item - and they think it might be a style I've pointed out as bad, then I'll talk with them. But that's the only time I'll get involved.
I spent a good deal of time in the 1990's and early 2000's doing the conventions & shows adding the "usual suspects" to posters and pieces I had started in the streets. A piece signed by George Lucas or Harrison Ford is just that, but when you have the opportunity to walk right up to a convention table and add Fisher, Daniels, Baker, Mayhew or Prowse to the piece you can finish off a nice cast piece pretty quickly.
The situation happened more than once when standing in line and you see the pieces other fans are holding are horrible forgeries likely bought off ebay, and they are about to spend more good money to add minor characters to a piece that has a forged Ford, Hamill or Lucas, I honestly felt that the person about to burn even more cash should be told.
In every single instance, I was told that I was clueless, should mind my own business, and I was even told more than once that the person holding the forgery had gotten each signature in person.
This was really impressive seeing that each signature on the piece was a well known forgery that had been flooding ebay at the time.
This happened over the course of multiple shows, and after getting the exact same responses over and over again, I came to the only sane and logical answer, that I would not get involved unless asked.
Absolutely NOT ! Seems like a surefire way to put a strain on a friendship or with a family member.They will view it in one of two ways:
1.) You are jealous of their signed item.
2.) You are a know it all,who always HAS to know more than anyone.
As for getting a refund,chances are they have owned the signed item for a long time and have ZERO chance of getting any money back.
Don't do it.
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