by RYAN-J » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:28 pm
To put it simply, there's members on here who collect for the wrong reasons. They see autographs via email as an easy way to 'boost' there collection, and don't care of their a fan of that person or not. so long as they get a signed photo without little or no effort.
A member some time ago, use to email everyone he could find & then make videos of the successe he got, and couldn't name half the people he requested from, he'd sit there & go 'Not sure who this is, but it's nice'. :neutral:
There have also been a couple cases in the past of celebrities finding this website and figuring out why they suddenly are getting bombarded with requests. and they were not happy.
I see members on here selling photos they got via email all the time, and that makes a lot of collectors mad as well. making money off of something that was given to them for free.
I'm not against emailing for autographs at all, but I personally do not give them out & don't write to EVERY email I find. If i'm not a fan, I don't write. I see no need to have names in my collection that mean nothing to me, when there's trues fans of that person who would enjoy one.
And finally, if you look at the forum statistics, it shows there is currently 34,386 registered members who have been on this site at one time or another, and that's not including all the people who just troll, but don't register & can see the same information. so if we start posting emails freely, EVERYONE can see it, and even if 5% of people sent to it, that's almost 2,000 emails right there.

which you can guarantee no celebrity is going to reply to that many.
RYAN-J

To put it simply, there's members on here who collect for the wrong reasons. They see autographs via email as an easy way to 'boost' there collection, and don't care of their a fan of that person or not. so long as they get a signed photo without little or no effort.
A member some time ago, use to email everyone he could find & then make videos of the successe he got, and couldn't name half the people he requested from, he'd sit there & go 'Not sure who this is, but it's nice'. :neutral:
There have also been a couple cases in the past of celebrities finding this website and figuring out why they suddenly are getting bombarded with requests. and they were not happy.
I see members on here selling photos they got via email all the time, and that makes a lot of collectors mad as well. making money off of something that was given to them for free. {down}
I'm not against emailing for autographs at all, but I personally do not give them out & don't write to EVERY email I find. If i'm not a fan, I don't write. I see no need to have names in my collection that mean nothing to me, when there's trues fans of that person who would enjoy one.
And finally, if you look at the forum statistics, it shows there is currently 34,386 registered members who have been on this site at one time or another, and that's not including all the people who just troll, but don't register & can see the same information. so if we start posting emails freely, EVERYONE can see it, and even if 5% of people sent to it, that's almost 2,000 emails right there. :shock: which you can guarantee no celebrity is going to reply to that many.
RYAN-J 8)