Oh dear AP or secertary or PP's are just a waste, of postage money.

Sadly, with each passing week, we find out, that more and more of our collection, are only fit for the Rubbish/Trash can

I would much rather, wait a year for an authentic, then a week for a secertary's autograph.
Mind you, we can always give ourselfs a better collection, by only sending to a venue {thumb2}

When I take official count of my autographs (which REALLY needs to be updated, because I received so many things TTM recently), I add EVERYTHING. Index cards, PPs, APs, Secretarials. Everything gets counted and whether or not it's authentic, it's a success to me.

I don't count them. I just throw them away.

I do count my PP as successes. I have never recieved an autopen.... Anyway I wrote a letter and recieved something back. To me, that's success. It's not good,great,or splendid success. It's okay success. Notice: okay "success". In my binder, the PP and fakes are separated from my authentics, but when I take an official count, I add them in.

I don't count my PP / AP / Stamped pictures as TTM successes either. I keep them separate from my authentic successes, which I put in a binder with acid-free page protectors. My PP / AP / Stamped pics just sit in a stack on my desk.

If I receive a PP/AP it just goes the trash. So I do not count it all as a success. Also, I do not write to people who a rumored to send secretarials.

I do not count PP/AP autographs in my autograph count. So the 100 and whatever I have (you can see it in my sig) are all the ones I believe to be authentic that I've gotten TTM (again you can never be 100% sure if it's authentic unless you actually saw it signed. Anyway yeah that's my take on it.

I was just wondering, do you keep and/ or count your SFM and CM "autographed" pictures seperate from regular TTM successes?

Personally, I just seperated my SFM and CM pics from the other TTM successes. I've just been collecting since April of this year so I only have 10 regular TTM autographs. Out of the 1o there are 3 that I know are autopens or preprints (Orlando Bloom, Mel Gibson, and Johnny Depp.) Do you store autopens and preprints (and maybe even secretarials) seperate from classic authentics? Personally, do you even count autopens, preprints, and secretarials as valid TTM successes?