Guest Post By Chris N Scott

The hobby of collecting the signatures of famous people has been a substantial resource of enjoyment to countless collectors across the centuries. Each collector has their reasons for collecting, and whether to own a small piece of history, or a few strokes of ink from a certain celebrity’s pen, the autograph collector is committed to his hobby.

Yet, in the digital age, where you’ll find nearly unlimited chances to access many fine signed items to enrich your collection, there goes along with it the possible opportunity to be duped by a clever forgery. There are a variety of tools the collector must employ to guard himself from becoming a forger’s victim, and we could write volumes on the subject, yet I felt it critical to build a fairly short guide just for the novice collector to assist him or her to begin collecting authentic famous signatures safely and smartly.

1) Don’t Be Fooled by Certificates of Authenticity (COA’s)

These certificates offered on a wide range of phony signatures online are more like Certificates of Worthlessness. Any autograph dealer along with a computer and some free software can print an exquisite, glossy certificate proclaiming the authenticity of the item, but in the end they’re worth just the paper they are printed on. This brings us to tip #2…

2) Find Reputable Dealers

This is often one of the most frustrating things to attempt to accomplish but there are many excellent dealers who know their trade, are honest and simply sell authentic material. Reputable dealers almost always offer catalogs with their latest offerings with insightful and knowledgeable facts about each piece. They will back up their items 100%, will actually provide excellent customer service and will guarantee authenticity without making use of gimmicks such as “COA’s”

One last note on this. Remember that being a member of a respectable autograph association (similar to the UACC or PADA) is not the same as being one of their registered dealers. Anyone can be a member but only certain upper-tier autograph dealers can be a registered dealer and each has to maintain high standards to keep their status as such.

3) Know Your Target’s Signature, Together With Its Variations

Just learning the various nuances of a particular celebrity’s autograph can help save you a great deal of trouble. So many forgeries are incredibly obvious once you know your celebrity’s signature well. Check reputable signature libraries and known authentic examples of signatures of prominent people. Take some time and study the several variations of that person’s signature throughout their life, and look for consistency between the authentic signature and any signed item you are interested in. You don’t need to be an expert to recognize obvious fakes. This might not shield you from the best forgeries out there nonetheless it can safeguard you against many.

4) Is The Price Right?

Remember if it’s too good to be true it is. Just because something carries a high asking price doesn’t necessarily make it authentic but a price tag too low can invariably be regarded as suspicious. No honest dealer is going to sell an autograph that will easily sell for $2,000.00 for $300.00.

5) Use Your Practical Sense

Just using your sound judgment is sometimes the best weapon against forged signatures. If a dealer or an item seem shady, questionable or not quite right just move on. There a wide range of good items to choose from and a lot of good dealers to sell them to you. Just keep looking. Looking is half the fun anyway!

Collecting famous signatures and celebrity autographs is an incredibly enjoyable hobby. It is fraught with dangers but by utilizing these tips you can get started collecting the safe and the smart way. All the best!

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A big part of why this film works is David Fincher. He did a wonderful work. He’d be the only individual appropriate to complete the film’s future installments. He and Steven Zaillian, who wrote the outstanding movie script made sure that the movie will be from a technical perspective excellent, if everything else were to fall apart.

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How to Get Movie Ticket Discounts/Coupons
By Tom Tessin

Nowadays everything is getting more and more expensive as the year passes. From school tuition fees, to car maintenance fees, to groceries, to house rents and even movie tickets! During the 90′s movie tickets only cost $ 4.33, but today it is not unusual anymore to see movie tickets that cost $ 10 to $ 14 or even more. Some would just choose to stay home and watch the movies being shown on TV, or download their choice on the internet. But still a lot of people do not bother paying attention to this fact anymore. While others would take their chances of becoming a member of some clubs that is in connection with movie theaters that gives a price cut.

If you are a member of Triple A Automotive Club, you can browse to their website and check their offers in your area by entering your zip code. Through this you can get discounted tickets at $ 6 each to Edwards, Regal, and United Artists Theaters.

You also have to be a member at Angie’s List, but their link is a little harder to find. They have a membership fee of $ 6 a month, with additional discounts if you decide to pay ahead of time for the following years. If you browse to their site, you will have to look for a box at the bottom of the page called “Member Resources”, there is a link there that says “Tickets and Perks”. It will take you to an order page where you will choose the following:

• AMC, Lowe’s, and General Cinemas: $ 6.50
• Cinemark Movies: $ 6.00
• Regal or United Artists: $ 6.50

At Costco, there is no membership fee needed. If you bought a parcel of five tickets at $ 37.50, you will get a reasonable discount at Regal’s.

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As I watch television, there are 2 commercials that are driving me crazy. On one hand we have Verizon saying that their internet speeds are much faster than Cablevision’s internet. The other commercial is, of course, Cablevision saying that their speed is faster than Verizon’s.

Now this may seem like something you would expect but I think that is part of what is bothering me. It has become so common for companies to misrepresent and basically lie in their commercials so that we (the viewers) have just gotten used to it and accept it as normal. I don’t think it should be that way.

Let’s face it, between these two companies one of them is not telling the truth. I don’t know which one is the liar but this sort of misrepresentation should be illegal and one these companies should be penalized (in my humble opinion).

Perhaps I am upset because after all the “BS” they put into the advertisements what you end up with is hundreds of channels and nothing worth watching!

Right now I am using Cablevision and I have had all kinds of problems with the service. We ordered the special Russian channel package and half the time the stations wouldn’t work. I made numerous calls to Cablevision and they never fixed anything. After almost a year of this problem the channels suddenly started to work.

The only problem is now the internet and phone will randomly cut-out on us. I need to regularly reset the modem to restore our service.

So I should switch to Verizon, right? No!

I had Verizon for a short while. Within the first 3 months we had problems with our bill. One month they accidentally billed us for over $400 and it took almost 2 months to get the money back. Their customer service was crazy bad.

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Well since I can’t get a dish (too many trees blocking the satellite) I’m seriously thinking of cutting the cord and telling them all goodbye.

No more internet (ouch!). No more phone (I’ll use my cell). No more television (except movies I rent our buy).

Please let me know by leaving comments on this post what you think. Have you had these kinds of problems too? What solution have you come up?

Through all of 2011 WatchMojo.com saw a 75% spike in profit and “broke-even” for the first time by generating more than 1 billion impressions through its various distribution channels.

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