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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on April 28, 2014 at 3:18pm

Avoid not authentic at all

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Permalink Reply by nkole on April 29, 2014 at 8:14am

Gosh, okay thank you!  I thought I had found real ones here, if you don't mind me asking what is it about these that seem non-authentic?  I feel silly to say I compared these to others and they matched up pretty well I thought!? lol my eye is not very trained yet obviously!

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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on April 29, 2014 at 8:57am

A number of things stand out to me. The first is that it appears to be signed by the same hand notice the "C" in clay has the same starting hook at the "R" in randy Jackson.

This looks like the items they sell at autograph network .com a major forgry dealer (all there items are fake)

The simon cowell is to neat and spread out you normally just get an "s" or very little more from him and for him to switch to this type of blue and give such a nice signature on a highly "sellable" item isn't likely to happen.

The paint pens alone raise a red flag most people will try to use on color on an item if possible if this was gotten by an IN person collector they would know the multiple pens would add doubt since most just use black blue or silver markers. No one is bringing all these weird color paint markers with them to get these people to sign and with them all being famous it's more likely that whoever hands them a pen there gonna run with it again making all these other color even more unlikely.

Paula signs both her names separate normally the Abdul underneath but sometimes just spaced either way this was done connected with no space between the name.

Rubban ( admit I Don't know him or clay's signature well ) but from what I have seen he tends to add "god bless" or similar to his signature.

hopefully that's enough to help convince you to save your money

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Permalink Reply by nkole on April 29, 2014 at 10:52am

Yes Definitely!  I appreciate your time and explanation, it has been tremendously helpful and everything you said makes perfect sense!  Thank you so much, now (hopefully lol) I will be able to catch such things myself in the future! :-) 

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Permalink Reply by nkole on April 29, 2014 at 1:20pm

Does this look authentic to you?  

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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on April 29, 2014 at 3:18pm

that one actually looks like it could be real although im not confident enough to recommend buying it. the simon looks ok to me the paula and randy both have a few things I don't normally see the "J" in randy is different and there appears to be more loops in the Abdul then normal

I found this on ebay it is the same photo and already been authenticated

http://www.ebay.com/itm/American-Idol-Judges-Original-3-Signed-Auto...

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