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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on January 21, 2013 at 4:15am

Hello,

I agree with you all the way. None of these look authentic to me at all and all look like they were signed by the same hand. The Springsteens are all signed stacked which is something that Roger taught me to look for. Bruce rarely does that and the other proportions of his signature are off as well, and the length of his name.

The U2 and AC/DC are also pretty bad fakes. The signatures are way to messy in my opinion on each of these as well. The eddie van halen jumps out at me as i know his autograph the most, and it too looks pretty far off.

I could be wrong, but in this case i feel confident that all these items are bad. But i could most certainly be wrong. If it were me, though, i would contact your friend and prepare him to start getting refunds if possible.

I also looked at his other items and they all look fake to me, and pretty bad ones. Bob Dylans and Full Eagles signed items starting at 10 dollars, and top name LPs going for next to nothing....yeah right. And thats completely disregarding the autographs themselves. These look like they were all signed by the same person and i hope ebay yanks them soon. These are so obvious i imagine ebay will step in and shut this seller down if enough people comment here, but who knows.

Good luck,

Carl

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Permalink Reply by Arvind Mohindra on January 21, 2013 at 9:39am

thanks a ton Carl! i thought so too myself!!

if something is too cheap then one needs to question the authenticity!!

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on January 21, 2013 at 11:37am

My bad, i meant to say that Roger told me that Bruce almost always stacks his signature. Please forget that top paragraph. I must have been in lolly land. But the Bruce is still bad.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 21, 2013 at 9:27am

Seller melodiia (and his counterparts) has been discussed on the ACAF forum, and members there have been successful in getting his items removed a number of times.  I believe it's part of a forgery ring in which one forger pays some sort of comission to several ebayers to sell his crap.  The forgeries are often on the vinyls themselves and always really, REALLY bad.

The terrible U2 autographs look like several of the vinyls that melodiia has sold (or tried to sell).

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Permalink Reply by Arvind Mohindra on January 21, 2013 at 9:39am

thanks Rich!! would you have the link on earlier discussions? as i tried finding it but could not.

thanks for clarifying again!

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 21, 2013 at 9:41am

You might have to sign up for the UK ACAF forum.  You'll see some discussion about that seller (melodiia) and other names they same forgeries have been sold under.

http://acogb.co.uk/forum/index.php

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Permalink Reply by Arvind Mohindra on January 21, 2013 at 9:46am

thanks. just registered and await the approval from the admin to allow me in.

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 21, 2013 at 9:51am

Milly will probably have more details on how the scam operates.  I'm fairly certain there are at least 2 or 3 threads about it.

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Permalink Reply by Arvind Mohindra on January 21, 2013 at 9:54am

hi Rich,

and finally two more.

Leonard Cohen and Rolling Stones.

thanks

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Permalink Reply by Rich on January 21, 2013 at 9:59am

I can only offer a (very) novice opinion that the Stones album looks like a mess.  Jagger, Wood and Richards all look off target to me.  But I am absolutely not a Stones expert! 

However, there are many other music experts and fans on this forum that could offer more precise opinions.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Ryan on January 21, 2013 at 11:38am

The Cohen i am almost positive is bad. I am pretty confident in that. And the stones is a mess too.

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Permalink Reply by Arvind Mohindra on January 21, 2013 at 9:51am

hi Rich. would you be able to comment on 3 more of these?

thanks!

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