I've sent to one who I know quite well now - I lived very near to him and about 50 miles from his "fanmail address" and it came up in the yellow pages, so I gave it a try and got a great success! We met IP at a later point and now we're friends!

Beau wrote:I agree with chriscollector. If you don't get a reply, they don't want to be bothered. And some celebs do use other names for their home addresses.
And there are plenty celebs that are happy to reply your requests.

But I am curious, smoxsamantha, are you talking about a specific celeb??

nope, i was just curious as to whether or not people would send to a celeb's house if they had the address.

I would. But only if a celebrity is really hard to get. Also, I wouldn't give the address I used out in this case as the private addresses of famous celebrities are extremely hard to find and I wouldn't want it to get spammed.
The addresses of retired wrestlers and not that hard to find and usually the only way you can get a success is using their private mail address.
If Johnny Depp was signing via private address it would have become spammed quickly.

I agree with chriscollector. If you don't get a reply, they don't want to be bothered. And some celebs do use other names for their home addresses.
And there are plenty celebs that are happy to reply your requests.

But I am curious, smoxsamantha, are you talking about a specific celeb??

^ Obviously they do not want to be bothered with fanmail. If they don't send anything through their fanmail, agent, and VV you have the answer to if they will sign or not, already.

If you did that and "need" the autograph that bad just send to the address you think is the home address.

Whitepages might have the name you are looking for but not their home address. Often you google the addy and find an empty lot, highway, or a shopping complex. Finding a celebrity home address isn't as simple as the phone book or white pages. Heck most celebs real name isn't even their credit name. Many females are married and their legal name is different from the credit name. Most superstars specifically have their homes listed in their agent, or family members, or even their own LLC name so they don't get bothered at home.

Honestly if I get 2+ failures I just move on. It's one autograph and there are PLENTY of other stars who are willing to be good to their fans. You can't force someone into signing TTM.

sending if they don't have a fanmail address is ok, but what if you send to their agent and VV and get no response? would you send to their house address?

Beau wrote:Ok, I see your point. Yeah, in that case, I would send it too the home address. But only when he/she doesn't have a fanmail address

I too, only use a home address if there is no other way to contact the person. I use the site http://www.zabasearch.com and is always were I start.

Ok, I see your point. Yeah, in that case, I would send it too the home address. But only when he/she doesn't have a fanmail address

Yes, like others have stated, I would only use a celebrities home address if that was the only way of contacting them and as long as it was clear that they didn't mind. I have only used a home address once (for Mary Costa) and received a lovely reply. It seems that the only way to contact her is at her home address and since she had sent some lovely responses to people before me it was clear that she didn't mind.