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automan
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Autograph Shop Help

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For the last three years in my local town Basingstoke there has been a shop
called pretiege gallery. It opens from November to January and then
shuts down for another year. In the shop there are a number of things
sold. Canvases of movie poster/stars ect,posters,gift items and
autographs. All the autographs are from the likes of fully signed 2 man
utd signed footballs,gerrard,lampard.lewis hamilton,team signed shirts basicaly all the top
teams and players. Of note they have a george best signed shirt with a
coa from fa premier signings who as most of you know are well known
forgers. The worst of it is that they want £400/$850-900 for it! I
have been meaning to report these guys for sometime but im not sure
where to start. Should I go into the shop all guns blazing or go for a
meeting with trading standards? Has anyone had experiance doing this
kind of thing? attached are some blurry {down} pics.

Top to bottom

Christiano Ronaldo

overview of shop with rows upon rows of A listers autographs at £75 each inc MJ bargain :lol:

Micheal Jackson

Wayne Rooney on the team signed manutd football

Andrew Flintoff

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An early example was from WBA fans: "Duncan Edwards is manure, rotting in his grave, man you are manure- rotting in your grave". The origin of "Man Utd" is a song to insult the dead Duncan Edwards.

Liverpool and Leeds fans copied this with their own man you /u versions to insult all of the lads who died at munich.

"Man * Man * went on a plane Man * Man * never came back again"

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"Man * Never Intended Coming Home" (if you combine the first letter of each word you get the word "munich").


So... Please REFRAIN from using this term ever again!!!!!!!!
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They are obvious fakes {down}
I would probably try to email both trading standards and the police with details of this shop, as even a newbie could tell they are fakes - hopefully that could shut them down.
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I was in that exact shop on Thursday and was looking at the signed Man United balls - they are all EXACTLY the same ie the same sigs next to each other at the same angle, like its been done by machine. I think they were £200 each.

Its horrible that so many people will be ripped off this christmas.
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This is terrible :mad:
Maybe you can try writing the newspaper about this apart from notifying the trading standards.
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