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Permalink Reply by Joe W. on October 8, 2015 at 3:01pm

I've made many in the 20 years I've been doing this. Walt Disney was my biggest in terms of cost. Marlon Brando was my second. Very costly too. Both purchased from big name dealers. Try going thru those hoops for a refund. Yicks! Will not mention what I paid...too painful!

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Permalink Reply by Paul on October 8, 2015 at 3:57pm

Getting married. Oh boy. I'm always broke.

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Permalink Reply by James on October 8, 2015 at 4:20pm

But that's because she lets you buy all those autographs, Paul!

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Permalink Reply by Gratefulphish on November 10, 2015 at 1:44pm

Came here to post this same answer. ; )

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Permalink Reply by James on October 8, 2015 at 4:31pm

As for me, it was probably not buying Microsoft stock as a boy in the 80s! A $2000 investment would have been well over $2,000,000 today. As for autographs, though, it was buying about 5 "signed" photos from the same seller. The sigs were spot on. The only problem: they were very high tech copies! And that's the wonderful world of eBay.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on October 8, 2015 at 4:45pm

Bono has made more money in facebook shares than his whole music career. U2 .Bono.

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Permalink Reply by Don Webster on October 8, 2015 at 7:17pm

Spent about 5 hundred dollars for an Elvis signed postcard...signed front and back about ten years ago. It was sold out of Germany. It was an Ebay purchase. I thought I was getting a great deal.

You know the rest of the story.

I still keep that post card as a reminder...

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on October 9, 2015 at 9:46pm

I've had a couple of expensive Fab 4 mistakes (£1,000 - £2,000 bracket) but one mistake I'm almost proud of was paying about $800 for a vintage George Hommell photo of a woman looking like Greta Garbo, inscribed in a Scandinavian language to a Scandinavian lady and signed "Greta". It came with a lot of supporting documentation so I was fairly hopeful it was legit even though I knew signed GG autographed photos are as rare as hens' teeth and worth much much more. My hopes were dashed when a very knowledgeable film buff friend of mine pointed out that  the lady in the photo was indeed callled Greta but unfortunately Greta Nissen. Just goes to show that what looks too good to be true usually is. Hommell photos have a value in themselves but unless you are talking Louise Brooks nowhere near $800.

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