by renef09 » Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:37 am
You'll see, even if you want to get a fast reply (who doesn't?), sometimes you'll have to wait. In my short experience as a collector so far, my longest waiting time for a reply is of
nine months (which is only surpassed by a
ten months waiting time but I only got a pre-print from Clint Eastwood, so I'm not even counting it, although I thought that one was lost), can you believe that? Not nine days, not nine weeks, but nine months. Actually, my first request ever was a mess, because I didn't quite understand things very well at that time. I sent just a SAE, the envelope was way bigger than the picture I sent, no cardboard to prevent it from bending, no stamps... Well, just an envelope, a letter and a picture. After I sent it, I remembered not including any money for return postage, so I was worried about that. After some time, I completely forgot about it. As mentioned above, nine months later I got a reply and it was very cool. He didn't sign the picture I sent (he's no longer signing I think) but he sent his own pre-signed picture.
Well, that was my
first success experience!
If you are looking forward to collect autographs, I'm pretty sure that you already have some people in mind to write. In my case, when firstly wrote to John Williams (my first success) it was by chance, as a friend of mine told me about this website because he was traveling to the US, I don't know how he found Fanmail.biz. By that time, I wasn't even aware of autograph collecting, and being John Williams a composer I admirer a lot (mainly for SW and Indiana Jones), I gave it a chance. And voilà , now it's more than two years since I joined this forum.
Sometimes, when you wait for so long, you may even forget that you sent that request. When you finally get that reply that you forgot about it's like a sweet victory!
What's the point about this? Don't worry about the waiting time, just write to those you admire and would like to have in your collection. I live in South America, and replies will always take more than three months, generally, so tell me about it!
Good luck and happy collecting
P.S.: I see that Sir Ian McKellen is one of your most wanted! Write to him using the addy in the database and you'll have a reply for sure.
You'll see, even if you want to get a fast reply (who doesn't?), sometimes you'll have to wait. In my short experience as a collector so far, my longest waiting time for a reply is of [b]nine months[/b] (which is only surpassed by a [b]ten months[/b] waiting time but I only got a pre-print from Clint Eastwood, so I'm not even counting it, although I thought that one was lost), can you believe that? Not nine days, not nine weeks, but nine months. Actually, my first request ever was a mess, because I didn't quite understand things very well at that time. I sent just a SAE, the envelope was way bigger than the picture I sent, no cardboard to prevent it from bending, no stamps... Well, just an envelope, a letter and a picture. After I sent it, I remembered not including any money for return postage, so I was worried about that. After some time, I completely forgot about it. As mentioned above, nine months later I got a reply and it was very cool. He didn't sign the picture I sent (he's no longer signing I think) but he sent his own pre-signed picture.
Well, that was my [b]first success[/b] experience!
If you are looking forward to collect autographs, I'm pretty sure that you already have some people in mind to write. In my case, when firstly wrote to John Williams (my first success) it was by chance, as a friend of mine told me about this website because he was traveling to the US, I don't know how he found Fanmail.biz. By that time, I wasn't even aware of autograph collecting, and being John Williams a composer I admirer a lot (mainly for SW and Indiana Jones), I gave it a chance. And voilà , now it's more than two years since I joined this forum.
Sometimes, when you wait for so long, you may even forget that you sent that request. When you finally get that reply that you forgot about it's like a sweet victory!
What's the point about this? Don't worry about the waiting time, just write to those you admire and would like to have in your collection. I live in South America, and replies will always take more than three months, generally, so tell me about it! :lol:
Good luck and happy collecting {up}
P.S.: I see that Sir Ian McKellen is one of your most wanted! Write to him using the addy in the database and you'll have a reply for sure. ;-)
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