by nightowl » Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:03 pm
Excuse me sponchild but you are wrong.
I have gotten MANY successes sending requests to PO's. I have had the PO hand my letter directly to the actor themselves. Or they have given it to their assistants right there on set. And the timing, and cancellation stamp, provide further proof that it was returned from the set and not their agency.
Yes, it is true that some PO's do not forward mail at all, or they send it to their Manager, or their agency.
That is why you have to call the PO and ask them if they forward fan mail. If they say yes then ask if that will be given to them on set, or sent to their agency.
Again, that is no guarantee of a success. Everyone has to do their own research and find out if the actor signs VV. Are they consistent? Or sporadic? Or do you want to take a risk and send to an actor that has been said not to sign and give it a shot anyway. I have done that too, and gotten some pretty amazing successes that way. But you have to be willing to take the risk to get it. That is all part of collecting.
It is also true that there are actors that sign "authentically" through their agency, and if they do that would be the easier way to go. BUT not all do. Again each person just has to look that information up in this forum and find that out.
If a VV addy gets spammed then it may be that no one will get a success, or only one or two may get signed, and then they stop after that. I can understand Kyrandia's concerns. That same thing happened to me. I decided to help out the forum with some VV information I had found myself and the addy got so spammed that no one got a success. The reason I know this is this topic had a large thread and there were a lot of people saying they were sending to this addy. BUT I saw successes after that, at other venues for this came celeb, when only one person sent a request.
Excuse me sponchild but you are wrong.
I have gotten MANY successes sending requests to PO's. I have had the PO hand my letter directly to the actor themselves. Or they have given it to their assistants right there on set. And the timing, and cancellation stamp, provide further proof that it was returned from the set and not their agency.
Yes, it is true that some PO's do not forward mail at all, or they send it to their Manager, or their agency.
That is why you have to call the PO and ask them if they forward fan mail. If they say yes then ask if that will be given to them on set, or sent to their agency.
Again, that is no guarantee of a success. Everyone has to do their own research and find out if the actor signs VV. Are they consistent? Or sporadic? Or do you want to take a risk and send to an actor that has been said not to sign and give it a shot anyway. I have done that too, and gotten some pretty amazing successes that way. But you have to be willing to take the risk to get it. That is all part of collecting.
It is also true that there are actors that sign "authentically" through their agency, and if they do that would be the easier way to go. BUT not all do. Again each person just has to look that information up in this forum and find that out.
If a VV addy gets spammed then it may be that no one will get a success, or only one or two may get signed, and then they stop after that. I can understand Kyrandia's concerns. That same thing happened to me. I decided to help out the forum with some VV information I had found myself and the addy got so spammed that no one got a success. The reason I know this is this topic had a large thread and there were a lot of people saying they were sending to this addy. BUT I saw successes after that, at other venues for this came celeb, when only one person sent a request.