The Irony Of The Autograph Posts On This Forum

[Scott Garner]

All this white noise about fake autographs is not changing my passion for collecting the signature of every pitcher that ever threw a no-hitter, FWIW.

Most of the remaining signatures that I am still seeking are so far off the grid that I'm not personally worried about it. I continue to rely on buying from the creme of the crop as far as vintage autograph dealers go.

[perezfan]

It's caused some concern in this community, but many/most autograph collectors are still not clued into Net54 (and are thus unaware of these posts).

The rebel-rousers here have not influenced me at all. I am comfortable and familiar enough with what to look for, from the subjects I collect. I do agree however, that these people (who are heavily invested in autographs) are not doing themselves any favors by casting aspersions in every direction imaginable. Especially when targeting the parties who are honest, and get it right the vast majority of the time.

[batsballsbases]

Originally Posted by perezfan

It's caused some concern in this community, but many/most autograph collectors are still not clued into Net54 (and are thus unaware of these posts).

The rebel-rousers here have not influenced me at all. I am comfortable and familiar enough with what to look for, from the subjects I collect. I do agree however, that these people (who are heavily invested in autographs) are not doing themselves any favors by casting aspersions in every direction imaginable. Especially when targeting the parties who are honest, and get it right the vast majority of the time.

Mark,
Im hurt Im a rebel-rouser! And Damn proud of it!

[HexsHeroes]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

All this white noise about fake autographs is not changing my passion for collecting the signature of every pitcher that ever threw a no-hitter, FWIW.

Most of the remaining signatures that I am still seeking are so far off the grid that I'm not personally worried about it. I continue to rely on buying from the creme of the crop as far as vintage autograph dealers go.

+1

My situation too. As I've said before, it's a very good collecting year for me if I can locate and purchase just one of the obscure autographs on my want list. It's a great year if I can cross off two names. I don't think 99.9% of the autograph forgers out there would give a damn about trying to create and sell a John (Jack) Peters autograph. Aside from a few Detroit Tigers and possibly Kansas City Blues autograph collectors, the market is damn thin for such an autograph, and therefore, the payoff limited. There are easier and much larger payoffs to be had for about the same amount of effort.

[Bilko G]

I personally think all these autograph posts are great!!


I think most of the autograph collectors that have been around a few years or longer already know about "this side" of the hobby.

As far as the new collectors or people "thinking about getting into collecting autographs" these posts offer them great knowledge and let them know about the forgery's and to do their homework, nothing wrong with that.

These "posts" aren't unique to Net54 either. Other sports collectible boards all have very similar posts (and just as many if not more) and the message boards that are just for autograph collecting have 10 times as many "posts" about the "dark side" of autograph collecting as Net54.

For the people that don't like posts about autographs (or posts from certain people), there is nothing making them click on these posts and reading them, they can simply skip over them since 99% of them can be figured out from the title. Autograph collecting is a HUGE part of the Sports collectibles market and i believe the posts about autographs deserve to be here, just as much as the posts about bat collecting, jersey collecting, cards, photos, etc.

As someone who is very interested in autographs and has been seriously collecting autographs for the last 20-25 years these type of threads actually keep me coming back to Net 54 every single day.