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First let me say that there are some very good autograph auction houses around. They tend to specialise in this field and in most cases will guarantee that an item is what they say it is without question, but they are few and far between. The real culprits are the ones who make claims to be "fine art dealers" or similar, but in fact are really onl..

I have written a short piece warning about these sellers before, and now at last one of them has been jailed! Douglas Duren  ran a number of autograph related websites, one of which was the well known NEautographs.com in the USA. Duren was jailed for over 3 years in Birmingham, Alabama USA for mail fraud and other fraud related crimes. His websit..

Over the past couple of years I have had some decent results in helping customers obtain refunds for fake signed items purchased both here and abroad. The USA based sales are the key ones as they will never give you a refund and put all kinds of obstacles in the way. Many of these items can be very expensive too sometimes amounting to a £1000 or mo..

If you need a signed item checked, then you will see that there are a number of companies around that will give you a free authentication on your signed items, but before you send off your scans or items you should ask yourself why they would offer this not so easy service for free? You might think that its a good business ploy, offer a free serv..