Best trick? [b]Always include SASE[/b]. Make it easy for the celeb.

Otherwise nice and sincere letter will always be better than just "hi, I want your autograph, thanks" because some celebrities actually do read their fanmail.

But that is a point of view from a person (me) who is and writes letters as a fan, not an autograph collector.
I only write to people that I admire. On the other hand, why should a collector pretend they love the celeb´s work, while they only want another addition to their collection and otherwise do not really care... 8)

Find a valid address.
Want the best reponce...write a nice letter(Longer the better in some cases)

"..good, truthful, sincere letter.."

exactly! (there's your trick....lol)

No real tricks, although I'm currently developing some kind of potion to combat that.

Haha, seriously though, you need to just write a good, truthful, sincere letter, and include everything necessary to get a response. :D

I picked up writing again at the end of May, and since then a little over half of my requests have come back. So that's 6 months in total, but come to think of it, the majority of those came within 4 months.

Yeah, every one of my successes has come within 4 or so months. The only one that took longer was due to a post office error.

[quote="RYAN J."]Yeah I never consider a request to 'Gone for good' unless the person passes away. But even then if they happened to have a bunch of pre-signed photos on had before they passed, you may get lucky. {up}

RYAN J. 8)[/quote]

agreed! :mrgreen:

[quote="johnnylightning"]well 98% of mine did...[/quote]

hmmm.....

Yeah I never consider a request to 'Gone for good' unless the person passes away. But even then if they happened to have a bunch of pre-signed photos on had before they passed, you may get lucky. {up}

RYAN J. 8)

well 98% of mine did lol Ask me again in 3 years lol