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Latest News Soccerbid News 30/4/08 Soccer bid News It was wonderful to see quite a number of you at our Newham show in East London on the 18th April 2008. We were slightly disappointed with the turnout for a venue that can take 1000 people. The hundreds of you that turned up were delighted with the show and lots of memorabilia business was done. We now roll on to the 12th May 2008 for the Forever Blowing Bubbles Show at Southend. Once again we look forward to anybody who wishes to come to meet the Soccer Bid Team and also have a great night of entertainment, with Tony Gale, Billy Bond, Alan Devonshire and Tony Cottee. We will be charging for an autograph session after the show and selling quite a lot of memorabilia on the day. Dust has started to settle after the Chester court case, and we are waiting for results of the court papers that list all the people that Sporting Icons supplied allegedly . You would be surprised at how many people have bought fake memorabilia, how must they be feeling at the moment? Moving on and away to more positive things, business is still good, you would have notice that we have invested in Champions League semi finalist shirts and it would be fair to say that these are in such a short supply this year; we will be putting the price up once we know who is in the final. We will be announcing in the next few weeks tie up with a major auction house, where literally hundreds of you that contact us wishing to sell items and we are not interested for our own stock, but would be pleased to recommend a superb auction house who will be delighted to take your items off you and put them into an auction. They will obviously charge a facility fee for doing this which will be fairly low or commission if it sells. But with so many people wishing to sell memorabilia, which they have just discovered in their loft or have been left to them or just a case that they have bought an unwanted item at an alcohol fuelled event in the last ten years. So watch this space for this information. With the recent news from Chester concerning the fakes and the memorabilia company writing many famous signatures them selves followed by a report in the Daily Mail about fake items on Ebay when will people learn we have been banging the drum for 3 years now buy from someone who can be trusted here is our guide lines again for any buyer of memorabilia We are constantly asked about authenticity particularly concerning a certain international Web site. If you have read our introduction on our home page you will see as part of a very busy football agency (we are constantly working with sportsman on a commercial basis almost on a weekly basis). Our memorabilia company stemmed from the football/sports agency. It was amusing at the Ideal home exhibition we were offering Geoff Hurst signed items and Geoff was on the stand and still people asked, “Is it really signed by Geoff Hurst?” We along side 50ish other companies now have a network of direct contacts with major sportspersons around the world. With our own clients we supply other memorabilia companies. With current footballers we deal with them directly. If you want a Muhammad Ali we deal directly with Ali’s manager appointed distributor, if you want a Tiger Woods we deal through an American associate whom Tiger has a well-documented commercial arrangement with and so it goes on. The certificate of authenticity is important but if you had a printer and a fancy design programme you could print them. Our certificate of authenticity has our office address, our company registration number, our accountant’s address, and our VAT number. (The only thing we do not give is our warehouse address for security reasons) How many other companies even have an accountant specifically for their memorabilia business? How many have a Vat number, how many have been in business over 10 years? (This is our 28th year in business) If you are concerned about another memorabilia supplier ask them for their Vat number, their registration number etc etc. Just compare memorabilia to a pension fund both are accepted as investments. Would you trust putting money into a brand new company with no track record no experience running from the front room of a housing estate? Having 100’s of satisfied customers selling kettles that gives you a wonderful sellers rating does not make you a doctor. Please Please put your trust and buy from a proper memorabilia company hopefully us! We are not the only reputable memorabilia company in the World but certainly one of a very small group. Guess what we are the friendliest. It’s been an interesting month. It would be fair to say that we have been quieter than we expected. While all our competition is claiming to be earning millions and millions we would rather be honest with our readers. It seems eventually we are starting to feel that the recession that everyone is talking about when we look back on previous notes and seen how we have been busy and everyone else have been moaning it seems a little bit of a turnaround. We are not completely dead however the level per spend for each sale is certainly down from previous months; however a strong Welsh contingent in the company means that we are absolutely delighted with the Rugby however the Hammers amongst us are dreading each West Ham game because of the results that are coming through. Tickets are selling well for our West Ham Billy Bonds evening at Newham Leisure centre and we look forward to seeing you there. We will have a memorabilia stall there. Valuations are still busy as ever with a record week last week 1947. The guys were desperate to get to 2000 valuations; however with 16 hours a day was about all they could manage and by the end of the week they were sick of valuing people’s properties and didn’t want to take another valuation. It would be fair to say where they were promised a night out with a couple of glasses of lemonade and a shandy they opted for an early night and one of our valuers said he was even dreaming of valuations in his sleep. The fashion seems to be changing in the memorabilia side with more and more people buying Un autographed images. The latest fashion seems to be 4 or 5 photographs round a subject with an engraved plate. The price under £75. We will do some experiments with these and see if this is a passing fad or indeed if this is something our customers would be interested in. Its amazing since the Tottenham and Carling cup win the interest in Tottenham memorabilia seems to of increased and now with the major clubs out of the FA cup will be an interesting year and probably good for memorabilia having some different teams in the final. We have experimented with a couple of the items on the site and put in quite a lot of new details about the actual subject featured in the item of memorabilia. The first one we have gone over the top with is a Tommy Docherty item and your comments would be appreciated whether you want information on the item you are buying or information all about the subject featured in the picture. We are just looking for new ways to keep you fixed on our site. Please see this month the new do it your self assembly shirt frame. In these quieter times we thank you for your consideration and thank you for looking at our site and we are still trying to bring you new items every month for you to spend your hard earned money on. The court case in Chester is making the news at present if the right judgement is given it will good for the memorabilia industry however who knows with juries now days? The media appear to love us as present but we cannot get too complacent and we all know one minute your loved the next we are hated. Well done to Spurs in the Carling cup we are not supporters of Tottenham or Chelsea however it’s good for the game of football to see another side win something. Next time Chelsea get to a final which they will it will not be a case of a foregone conclusion which is great for the fans. The Sun newspaper did half a page on our company and from that resulted hundreds of valuations and interest in our company. We are absolutely delighted with the interest that soccer bid is now generating; so much so our boss is wondering whether the service people have come to know and expect from soccer bid can be sustained. (Editors comments Yea 12 hour days are becoming exhausting!!!) The Observer magazine did a page featuring out items last weekend. People say just get some new staff however it’s the management and the administration that we are struggling with particularly where people know and trust us and have come to expect good service. However that’s a lovely problem for us to have and once again we can’t thank you enough in being generous in your consideration of using soccerbid. Busby babe’s memorabilia is now a long time high. We are not going the hype the price up just because it’s the anniversary we have continued to sell Busby babes over the last few years and this month you will see a photograph signed by Dennis Violet obviously we have a number of items signed by Bobby Charlton. It was with regret people (laugh at this) the passing of Jeremy Beadle. Jeremy Beadle forgetting his television exposure as a presenter was a great fund raiser and loved memorabilia. Quite a number of times he bought our memorabilia usually through third parties at various dinners at auctions we supplied across the country. You will notice that we have an influx of boxing gloves while boxing seems to of comes to the fore and Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe signed gloves along with good old Frank seen to be as popular as ever. An ideal present for dad better than an Easter egg far more interesting doesn’t put on the calories and bit of memorabilia that he would savour. The new look England team is interesting we are all waiting to see if David Beckham would make his 100th cap. It’s generally a feeling that he will at some point get this cap but who knows. Our competitors have criticized us for selling quite a number of magazine signed pictures. The reason we include this as part of our regular stock is that over the years particularly in the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s before memorabilia in this country really took off the only thing to get signed by your hero was either a shirt of a picture from a magazine. A lot of those collections have been passed on even our boss has a collection of around 2000 pictures signed by various legends particularly from football over the years. In a nice way of introducing memorabilia to particularly young audience is for them to have a signed picture of a legend from their favourite team without necessarily breaking the bank. Once you put one of these pictures into a mount and a frame there you have signed on your wall something framed very often for around £25 to £30 this is now in reach of the kid’s pocket money and perfect for the present for the youngsters and also it then gets them into memorabilia. You will find a lot of the signatures were far better signatures than those obtained from celebrities now days. We will in the period of the next few weeks make up some montages collating a number of these magazine signed images together and to get a montage signed by a number of legends of a team less than £250 is a real bargain. It’s the frame that actually costs the money. We have been asked numerous times to set up a “Soccerbid Club” we need a thousand of you who love memorabilia who want to continue buying memorabilia and like to meet celebs from the Sports World who want to opt in to our scheme we are putting together a benefits package at present it won’t cost anything to join we will need your email address, plus name and address and phone numbers. Even if you have not bought anything from us you can still join. So at these early stages if you fancy this please send us an email to sales@soccerbid.co.uk in the subject heading put “Soccerbid club” You will notice we were selling 2 Brazil shirts from the World Cup in 1970. How do we get these I hear you ask and are we happy with the authenticity? Memorabilia like any antique or classic car has a set time frame with an owner. Sometimes people need to realise some funds, other times they are fed up with paying the insurance, sometimes the wife wants that item out the way “its collecting dust” is something we often hear. If it’s been a players or in a players family they just want to get rid of all the “stuff” he collected over the years! When players move on to the great football Stadium in the sky some families just want to get rid of everything. We as a company have a network across the world of contacts it has taken us nearly 30 years to build up this net work. Re the authenticity we turn down more offers of items than we take then we notice other people selling them and making a lot of money! We are trusted by our customers we do not need the extra few pounds just to sell an item and this is paying us back a hundred fold. Why do the media love us? If you go over the top trying to be squeaky clean they will embrace us waiting for us to fall! We already have had a few suspect calls and offers of making thousands out of suspect signatures we would not even let the person come and see us! We know who you and your firm are!!! We hope you had an enjoyable Xmas and let us wish you a happy new year. When we look back at the previous year Soccerbid has grown from Strength to Strength. Over a million people visit the site every month we have the stats to prove it please all spend £1 each every month and we would be very happy. We have now been approved and accepted as a UACC registered dealer (number RD294) The UACC is the largest autograph organization in the world today with approximately 2,000 members in over 25 countries. There seems to be only a few hundred registered dealers for which we are now one. The UACC has a Code of Ethics that all members are required to abide by, as well as an aggressive Ethics Board to mediate disputes and uphold standards. Why you may ask do we need to become associated with the UACC when as an agent for a lot of our clients whose autographs we sell there is no question what so ever re authenticity? We felt that especially as our company is now supplying autographs across the world being the agent for e.g. English Sporting legends does not add up too much when you are looking to buy in e.g. Canada. Being a registered dealer of the UACC is another weapon to show our company has passed the vigorous vetting procedure it has taken a few years to be accepted and to gain full dealer membership it not a case of just paying a few pounds and your in. If it means we get sales from people through being one of a few hundred recognised dealers in the World that’s good enough for us. The New Zealand Herald did a nice piece on us just before Xmas so hello to all our new friends from that wonderful part of the world. As the old year says good bye we are delighted that 2007 we provided stock and staff to help raise £987,348.00 we are the quiet ones who do the work in the background and lots of others take the credit for raising the money. Fact our company supplies more personnel and memorabilia for fund raising than anyone else in the UK. We had a wonderful endorsement from The Times in October. BBC breakfast news used our master of wines (The one who does the tasting notes on the 1966 champagne) BBC Essex used us to talk about memorabilia and give some free valuations. The Student Times gave us a front page endorsement concerning our fund raising and helping the charities. Choice magazine which is principally for the over 50’s has done a feature on us. The Sun is running a piece about our tips for the New Year memorabilia wise. Reuter’s news agency ran a piece about memorabilia and quoting us as a source. That’s the ones we know about! It seems we are liked by the media. Hopefully all that will ensure the till rings even more! The giveaways have proved to be popular. The free post option works fine however some people still think we should send a £10 item recorded delivery and not charge postage! Our plans for the New Year you will have to wait and see. We have a number of signed magazine pictures there is an argument the quality of the image is never as good as a photo however price wise its almost half price and our business sadly is becoming price driven. We still will be supplying signed photos however we do listen to our client and parents who want images for kids or managers who want signed images for their football team’s fund raising under £50 this is for you. Montages seem to be coming back again. The New England manager lets see what he can bring to the countries team. Mr Steve McClaren does not appreciate what he has done to our business. Let alone those 13 so called footballers, it shows that that team of 1966 were still the best England have produced. This summer we all will be looking at each other. Any one interested in the Olympics! This is why we love sport it’s so unpredictable lets move on to more positive news. Our clients tell us that some of them are addicted to our site looking every day for gossip and different items and looking for price drops so this big HELLO is to Darren Seswin from Nottingham. Let’s see how long it takes you to recognise your name in lights. Once again the legal industry is using soccerbid for a benchmark in what will be a high profile case and our company is being used in an expert witness situation we cannot tell you any more sorry! We are being asked for suggestions for investments for memorabilia on a regular basis. We will not lie to you and tell everything is an investment but we have a set amount of clients that buy usually once every 6 months and we try to sell them something that they will enjoy that might go up in value in due course we call them our diamond club clients we have recently lost one to the dreaded cancer so if you want to commit to this special club of selected members please email us. In all cases remember you should only buy because you want it you can afford it and the fact that it may go up in value is a bonus. We were delighted to help “Children in need” and be part of their fund raising of 19 million pounds our part helped raise £645.000. Thanks to all of you who supported this wonderful appeal. Back to normal memorabilia things. The offers we have been doing are proving to be popular. We can here the cynics’ going “they must be quiet or desperate” Wrong on both counts so many people in previous years customers have said they started looking at our site in November then actually buy in December. We are undergoing extensive building work at head office now just to expand for you wonderful customers. Tony is back and his heart is playing up every week with West Hams ups and downs. We have been asked to supply a number of shops so soon soccerbid will be in a shop near you however it is cheaper on the net! But then they have high street rents to pay. The first of the high profile fake signature trials has taken places with 2 of our associates being asked as expert witnesses so we will report when the man gets sentenced! We understand Wayne Rooney is not signing at present we have a little stock from him signed a while ago. If he does not sign it will increase in value but then all the fakers come out so be careful! Trust soccerbid! A glowing feature in the Reading football programme for a couple of weeks ago kept us smug for a couple of days. We have made some changes to the site. Our New stock page has been changed. People complained that the retail range we showed was not changing quickly enough. We have now added a section where we will add new items on at least a weekly basis this will be above the retail section. A point we should have made years a go on the new stock some of the prices on there are a little dearer than perhaps the same item in the body of the site. These are retail prices (shop prices) look in the body of the site you may see the same item cheaper there maybe unframed but still at a saving. With our premiership advertising now paying dividends, we are now under pressure to keep all the enquiries serviced at the moment but we are not moaning business is good and the half page feature in the Mail on Sunday a few months ago certainly didn’t do any harm. We have some amazing pieces of memorabilia that we are gradually adding to the site. A picture signed by Russian legendary goal keeper Leo Yashmin and Pele. Items signed by John Charles. German trading cards signed by the 1966 team. An autograph book with pages and pictures from the 1964 West Ham FA Cup winners, a letter from Gordon Banks talking of his injury which finished his career. We are adding new items a week minimum at present so keep looking at the site. We are quite often asked the question if we are such a big memorabilia company why do we not have online buying. The answer is simple we did experiment with this in the early days with Soccerbid but its amazing how many criminals manage to use stolen credit cards to buy all sorts of gifts and memorabilia using these cards. Our sales team likes to talk to these customers we build up a bit of a relationship and in that way we protect the security of our items. With our valuations hitting a record last week of 1273 we have decided now that possibly we may offer a telephone service where people can just ring up and get a valuation for their item as opposed to getting it written. To pay for our assessor’s time this will have to be some kind of premium number but we are currently looking into this. The death of Ian Porterfield was a shock although he had been ill for quite a while but we have automatically removed a few bits of stock by him for respect for his family and it seems that this year legends are dropping like flies. Jose Mourinho's sudden departure from Chelsea we feel was on the cards anyway and it would be interesting now to see Chelsea as a team react to a new manager. We have a few pieces of Jose Mourinho items left and we’re sure these will go very quickly. We you by now hopefully will have seen our board behind the goals at Reading and Bolton bright Orange on Black it stands out and we love watching the football from these grounds to see our ads! We are the first Memorabilia Company in the world to be allowed to advertise at Premiership grounds so another 1st for us. Well done to Jimmy Filkwell who spotted our ad at the Chelsea V Reading game a signed England shirt has winged its way to him. We have introduced a policy for giving away some stock when you spend so much money with us the Forza game was very popular and it worked so keep an eye on the front page! Its first come first served. We have sold the last of the cheaper Jules Rimet trophies they have been a constant favourite but we decided with those and the currant world cup that we would go up market and have a hallmarked version its more expensive but certainly better quality. Congratulations to Steve Piftal from Burnley on the Thursday we found we had 4 tickets left for the community shield at Wembley so we said the next person who phones and buys anything will get them he phoned spent £7.50 and got 4 tickets to see the game at Wembley he thought it was a wind up until Sir Geoff Hurst met him and gave them to him was he bowled over or what and his 8 year old son has declared he now is supporting West Ham and not Burnley same colours so not a bad choice! In our company fantasy football league its Man u, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Bolton, Everton, the top 8 places and we think Tottenham and Southampton will start the season well lets look at this next May. For going down well we do not want to alienate any customers do we? For further news and detailing re authenticity look at our other news section.