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iPod Shuffle Signed by Steve Jobs Available on eBay
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Could you please explain why you call this a Nastygram. If a famous person wishes not to provide their autograph, that is their prerogative. The letter you received seems quite nice and reasonable and bears no hint of being nasty. Indeed, I think it was nice of Apple to assign someone to respond to such requests.
Could you please explain why you call this a Nastygram. If a famous person wishes not to provide their autograph, that is their prerogative. The letter you received seems quite nice and reasonable and bears no hint of being nasty. Indeed, I think it was nice of Apple to assign someone to respond to such requests.
I don't.
The 's' in Jobs are very different between the two images. A forgery, most likely.
It is a BIT (huge understatement) different with people actually meeting and making the request, and an autograph collector just sending in mailed requests to all kinds of people.
People's signatures do change over the years or even by situation. An expert would have to make that decision. Both of the examples look different than the one my friend got, for example... and as I noted above there were dozens of witnesses (including a Wired reporter) that could verify my friend's is authentic. A few tech geeks aren't going to look at the examples shown here and make that determination.
it is hard to sign such a small surface plus considering the height of the box when put flat on a table. The hand is mid-air and some differentiation from signing a piece of paper is rather likely.
Another discrepancy is the length of the horizontal bar (the cross) of the 't' in Steve.
I agree that a handwriting expert would need to examine it and even they are not infallible. The fact that Steve rarely autographed things makes this more dubious.
A professional athlete or movie star who signs tens of thousands of autographs would have a large body of signatures for comparison.
I don't think this is authentic. If you look at his S's compared to official signatures, they look a tad too bubbly. Also, "jobs" itself seems like somebody wrote it slowly while they were trying to copy a picture they were looking at. Just seems fishy.
As there is no proof legitimacy of the autographed iPod Shuffle, it seems to me that the winner of this will be paying a lot of money for a story rather than knowing that they got the real thing.
The bid is currently at $15,655.55
No doubt helped by this free publicity given to it by tech sites.
BRB, looking for my baseball signed by Steve Jobs.
BRB, making up a good story along with it.
Profit?
LOL, I bet this auction spawns several fakes if someone can sell one for that price that is not even authenticated.
The last four bids were made by indiviiduals who each have made 0, 2, or 4 purchases each.
Either shills, or a bunch of kids messing with the seller.
I suspect the latter. Over the next 5 days, I predict the bidding war will force it up to 100k, and the purchaser will melt away. If tracked down, he will be less then 18yo, and nothing will be done.
And I agree with all the handwriting "experts"... Looks forged to me.
Either shills, or a bunch of kids messing with the seller.
I suspect the latter. Over the next 5 days, I predict the bidding war will force it up to 100k, and the purchaser will melt away. If tracked down, he will be less then 18yo, and nothing will be done.
And I agree with all the handwriting "experts"... Looks forged to me.
This is why sellers should use the option to block buyers with under 10 feedback if they're selling valuable items. Filters out a lot of those guys in the latter group, since they usually start new accounts with disposable e-mails to avoid their main accounts being suspended.
That was a ******** story. Jobs never would have went on and on about why he doesn't sign, etc. Also, this individual chose an iPod shuffle because it was the CHEAPEST to use in case he messed up copying the signature and had to buy another and try again. The thief assumed either way he'd be making bank even if he had to buy 2 or 3 Shuffles. The listing's been removed. Nothing to see here.
Maybe, but not necessarily. Looks like it's signed in Sharpie, a little isopropyl alcohol will take that right off of plastic.
Seller stated that at the bottom of the ad that he was likely to remove the ad whenever he wanted. Sounds like someone afraid to get caught to me. Plus it's gone now. Not sure if ebay took it down or the seller did but still.
Plus, if that story is legit, I doubt apple would be giving away the cheapest thing possible. On top of that the signature looked fake, had no proof it was legit (if it was then he would have gotten it appraised to raise the bids) and the story itself just didn't add up.
Plus, if that story is legit, I doubt apple would be giving away the cheapest thing possible. On top of that the signature looked fake, had no proof it was legit (if it was then he would have gotten it appraised to raise the bids) and the story itself just didn't add up.
Do you really think the guy who pulled this was that smart? You have to put yourself in the mind of a criminal... basically, remove all common sense and replace it with mind-clouding giddiness at the thought of walking away with a 10-grand plus profit from a $49 item.
I wonder if the guy ever thought it would get that high. The funny part was that the listing still had over 5 days left before the auction ended. Kinda makes me wonder what would have been the winning bid amount.