SIGNED ITEMS - We are often asked why we don't include more signed items on our site. Well the simple answer is unless we can guarantee 100% that a signature is valid we don't consider them worth the risk or the of much value. We have be sure the signature is genuine and that gets harder each day with modern technology. Not only that players are signing so many times today the market is just too saturated and we do try to lead customers into good investments and most of today's signed items will never increase in value. In fact player loyalty is almost non-existent so heavy losses on things like signed shirts are very common now. We don't feel happy selling a £25 replica shirt for £500 when it might only be worth £25 again almost the next day, some are but we are not.

A valid signature as far as we are concerned is one written by the person, in the right context and right time. A 1966 world cup winners signature signed on that day in 1966 for example would, to us anyway, worth far more then the ones that can be obtained by queuing up with 100 other people and paying a few pounds at an event today.

PROGRAMMES, TICKETS ETC - The advent of the internet has given anyone the access to mass selling gateway and computers make it easy to replicate printed items. For this reason people must choose very carefully what they buy and where they buy from. Fake programmes, tickets etc. and reprints are now very commonly sold as genuine football memorabilia. Almost weekly we reject such items but it gets hard each day.

As you will see we clearly mark reprints on our site and together with our no quibble return policy we feel this should give people the confidence they need to trust us once and from their it's up to us to provide the service. Unfortunately we can't stock every item you might want so we will list items here that you should be weary of because we have seem reprint or fake items sold as genuine, most can be uncovered often by examining the paper and the poor quality print. Although in some cases it's a judgement call, please don't ask us to referee ;

1966 World Cup Final Programme (The blue one) at least 4 reprints since 1966.
1966 World Cup tickets
1970 World Cup tickets
1974 World Cup tickets
1951 European Cup Final
1968 European Cup Programme
1964 FA Cup Final Programme - does not say reprint on the product
1965 FA Cup Final Programme - does not say reprint on the product
1961 Tickets regarding Spurs success
1957 Teamsheet Copenhagen XI v Manchester United friendly match on 23rd May
1968 Ticket World Club Championship Estudiantes and Manchester United.
If you can add to this list please let us know, we haven't put much time into the list ourselves.

EBAY - Care should be taken with buying or selling transaction with people you don't know and can't track down if needed. You need to also check the support levels of the site if you choose to use an online auction site. They may give compansation but most seem to start at a level above the average transaction. Ebay are often in the news for allowing people to trade in fake goods, here's the latest press - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=558253&in_page_id=1879

Here's A good Article of Collecting Football Memorabilia