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Originally posted by Kryten67:
Carolyn Edwards Facebook Post
Hi all, I'm looking for some eagle eyed Sketch Card fans to let me know if this Buffy Artist's Return card turns up on eBay, or anywhere else for sale please?
It has been 'lost' in San Francisco, despite being tracked and insured, and signed for, and everything! Any info at all on its possible whereabouts would be greatly appreciated, many thanks.



I Know the Seller & The BUYER..... & I WILL BE WATCHING! If You Sign for it & Open a Claim saying you didn't get it..... You're a Smeghead!

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Originally posted by Logan:
If it was signed for by the person it was being sent to then how in the world can the seller lose that case? I would think the signature would make it an easy victory for the seller should a case be opened for "item not received".

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Originally posted by Logan:
Topps has gotten Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign for their upcoming 2017 Star Wars Masterwork set and judging by the image, it looks as though she left the "Gellar" off her signature just like on her books. Who knows but her Buffy autographs may be the only time she signs her full name on a trading card.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Logan:
Topps has gotten Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign for their upcoming 2017 Star Wars Masterwork set and judging by the image, it looks as though she left the "Gellar" off her signature just like on her books. Who knows but her Buffy autographs may be the only time she signs her full name on a trading card.

Yes, it was a given that this was going to happen. I don't think TOPPS had to try real hard to land her now.

But the image is from the animated series and her signature seems to have now lost the last name, so the older Buffy autos will be preferred, unless its Star Wars that is more important to the collector.

You still can't count on the supply of her full signature being very limited though. I'm sure that Buffy Series 3 will have to have 1 or perhaps even 2 new SMG autographs in it. It won't sell at these prices with just the 1 mystery signer. So it depends when she did her autographs and if she used her old 3 name autograph or her newer 2 name autograph.

If the new Buffy series increases the supply of the preferred 3 name signature, it won't get any premium for it beyond the market price. It will just be that her shortened Star Wars autos will be cheaper, which you can expect anyway because it is not her big character. Only if it looks like she is not increasing the supply of the 3 name autograph, will it start to earn a premium.

Unfortunately, how can you ever depend on that? Some celebrities use different versions of their signature all the time. All you can do is decide which one is the best looking one for your money, but which one is the more limited version is something that takes a long time to figure out and SMG is nowhere near telling. She has just gotten started.

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Originally posted by MarcG:

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Logan:
Topps has gotten Sarah Michelle Gellar to sign for their upcoming 2017 Star Wars Masterwork set and judging by the image, it looks as though she left the "Gellar" off her signature just like on her books. Who knows but her Buffy autographs may be the only time she signs her full name on a trading card.

Yes, it was a given that this was going to happen. I don't think TOPPS had to try real hard to land her now.

But the image is from the animated series and her signature seems to have now lost the last name, so the older Buffy autos will be preferred, unless its Star Wars that is more important to the collector.

You still can't count on the supply of her full signature being very limited though. I'm sure that Buffy Series 3 will have to have 1 or perhaps even 2 new SMG autographs in it. It won't sell at these prices with just the 1 mystery signer. So it depends when she did her autographs and if she used her old 3 name autograph or her newer 2 name autograph.

If the new Buffy series increases the supply of the preferred 3 name signature, it won't get any premium for it beyond the market price. It will just be that her shortened Star Wars autos will be cheaper, which you can expect anyway because it is not her big character. Only if it looks like she is not increasing the supply of the 3 name autograph, will it start to earn a premium.

Unfortunately, how can you ever depend on that? Some celebrities use different versions of their signature all the time. All you can do is decide which one is the best looking one for your money, but which one is the more limited version is something that takes a long time to figure out and SMG is nowhere near telling. She has just gotten started.

Is this set being released around November 2017?

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Originally posted by BornToBeAPopstar:
After almost two months, the "missing/lost" Carolyn Edwards Buffy AR card finally showed up at my house today! I had thought for sure it was lost or delivered to the wrong place, considering the last trace on the package was March 27th at a Customs facility. Randomly a few days ago the package had it's first movement in almost 7 weeks! It went from San Francisco to New Jersey for some reason and then sent back to California and eventually San Francisco. Also the package was a little damaged when it arrived and looked like a label was re-applied on to it. I'm not sure what happened with the post office, but I'm just glad it arrived finally. I never had a chance to reply in this thread about the delivery drama because after buying two sketch cards that got "lost" I got really depressed and stopped checking the thread. But yes, I never signed for the package months ago like was being stated in here. I didn't sign for the package until just now when my mailman personally handed it to me and got my signature like he was supposed to.

Also, I'm not sure how reliable your local post office is with deliveries but I have "lost" THREE packages in the past two months. Two of those packages were sketch cards. One has now finally arrived, but another is still at large. The issue with the other package is that it was signed for by a "neighbor" but none of my neighbors signed for the package. After going to the post office and seeing that someone signed for the package with MY address. I filed a formal complaint on my local post office and it looks like someone was finally listening because the store manager just got fired. Also the one specific mailman might also lose his job because he got a signature from a random person and left my package with them, and he can't tell me exactly which house it was. In my opinion, this means he delivered it to the wrong place either by accident or just by being lazy. The local post office has guaranteed me a refund for that one because it's illegal for him to do that. I guess the one upside having to do with all this is that I've become very close with the new mailman delivering in my area and I feel like he'll do his job with a little more caution from now on.

Anyway, with all that said the Edwards Buffy sketch is extremely beautiful in person and it's now officially the favorite card in my entire collection. Funny enough, this was such a stressful delivery process but in the end I'm just happy that it's here.

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Originally posted by Raven:
It is still possible that the package will turn up. Or it could even be returned to the sender without any system entry, as mine was a couple of Christmas' ago. Tracking is a great automated system, but the human element is still required. If it doesn't go thru a scanner, or the mailman delivers without clicking the handheld, the tracking just stops at the last scanned location.

The good news is that the insurance has to cover if the PO can't prove delivery, so at least the person stuck paying will get their money back.

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Raven:
It is still possible that the package will turn up. Or it could even be returned to the sender without any system entry, as mine was a couple of Christmas' ago. Tracking is a great automated system, but the human element is still required. If it doesn't go thru a scanner, or the mailman delivers without clicking the handheld, the tracking just stops at the last scanned location.

The good news is that the insurance has to cover if the PO can't prove delivery, so at least the person stuck paying will get their money back.

This.

Glad you got it, very fine sketch.

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Originally posted by BornToBeAPopstar:

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Originally posted by Raven:

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Originally posted by Raven:
It is still possible that the package will turn up. Or it could even be returned to the sender without any system entry, as mine was a couple of Christmas' ago. Tracking is a great automated system, but the human element is still required. If it doesn't go thru a scanner, or the mailman delivers without clicking the handheld, the tracking just stops at the last scanned location.

The good news is that the insurance has to cover if the PO can't prove delivery, so at least the person stuck paying will get their money back.

This.

Glad you got it, very fine sketch.

I was holding out hope that it would still show up, but after the 5 week mark I started feeling really hopeless. I knew there was a chance it might still show up, but they said the chance was extremely small and would get smaller each day it goes missing. It just makes no sense for it to go all the way from San Francisco to New Jersey for no reason and then come back here. They said that it most likely got misplaced at Customs and went to the wrong place. But for 7 weeks?! Anyway, I'm glad it's all figured out now ☺