ACAF : Autograph Collectors Against Fakes

AUTOGRAPH

COLLECTORS

AGAINST

FAKES

Autograph Collectors Against Fakes

- The Website of the eBay Autograph Collectors Forum -

The ACAF website launched in July 2008 as an extension of the successful eBay Autograph Collectors Forum. With over 2,400 members, including collectors and dealers from around the world, we hope you will find this site a useful tool to help you with your hobby. For more information on ACAF, please use the links at the top of the page.

ACAF is run by collectors, for collectors. We have no affiliation to any other organisation. We do not accept payment from dealers to join our Approved Dealers list, ensuring we have no ties to anyone other than fellow collectors.

As we continue to fight the trade in fake memorabilia, we will conduct private memorabilia signings with celebrities from all genres, and offer these to members at the lowest possible prices.

This year we have set ourselves a target of raising at least Ł17,000 to purchase a Sunshine Coach for the Variety Club Of Great Britain. To launch this, we have joined forces with premier UK band Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and conducted our first signing with them on Friday July 11 2008.

World Exclusive OMD Signing : Rehearsal Studios, Liverpool : Friday July 11 2008

ACAF IS PROUD TO BE

SUPPORTED BY WWW.OMD.UK.COM - THE OFFICIAL OMD WEBSITE


eBAY UPDATE !!
August 6th 2008 Within 12 hours of launching our sales campaign on eBay, the account was suspended indefinitely by eBay. The reason given was that autographs are in the "high risk" category for fraud and they require a mountain of paperwork to reinstate this, including passports, driving licences, council tax bills and details of all our suppliers. After lengthy correspondence via email - and receiving little more than standard auto-response e-mails on most occasions - we are now waiting to hear if our appeal and the information sent has been accepted. It seems that while the real crooks can carry on trading unabated, our efforts to highlight the scale of the fraud is not acceptable. We are, therefore, looking at further ways to promote the group whilst we get the eBay account reinstated. More details as we have them. In the meantime, the group moderators are continuing to purchase from a number of fraudsters and compile reports for trading standards and other associated authorities. Whilst we may appear quiet, you can be assured that there is a LOT of activity going on behind the scenes. Watch this space...

ACAF Approved Autograph Seller Membership Number : AD001

ACAF : PO BOX 1051 : BB9 4BH