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How long before you give up on a reply?

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:52 pm
by zach8270
This may have been posted before, but how long does everyone usually wait before they chalk up a TTM request as a loss?

Re: How long before you give up on a reply?

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 12:36 pm
by goswannies
zach8270 wrote:This may have been posted before, but how long does everyone usually wait before they chalk up a TTM request as a loss?
I'm sorry, but this is a somewhat ridiculous question. You wait as long as it takes to get it back. I recently got an autograph back about 8 years after I sent it and it was returned to an old address that I hadn't lived at for 6 years. I'd actually moved residence 3 or 4 times since I sent it. Autograph collecting is about patience.

Re: How long before you give up on a reply?

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:14 pm
by BossC
I don't give up on replies for a few years but I do start looking for other addresses after 6 months to a year.

After vv usually 6 months.

I love getting long lost replies-sometimes I have gotten them another way, sometimes not, this is a tricky hobby.

BossC

Re: How long before you give up on a reply?

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:17 pm
by Newbie007
Yup VV you could give up on, though sometimes they just take a bunch of mail with them and sign it all at one (eg Hugh Jackman, though he auto-penned it all)