Rules and Facts for Our Celebrity Pictures and Autograph Bidders

Please be sure to read the complete Terms and Conditions of Sale for our celebrity pictures, Guide for Prospective Bidders, and related information about celebrity autographs for sale presented on the page below. The rules of the auction are designed to encourage and reward bidding. You will be at a disadvantage if you do not read them. A short synopsis of the most frequently requested information about celebrity pictures appears immediately following this paragraph.

Terms And Conditions Of Sale

Shipping Info:

Autographstore.com uses USPS Priority Mail to handle all domestic (USA) shipping. All celebrity pictures are shipped Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation tracking. Our shipping charges are $7 for the first item won and $0.50 FOR EACH additional celebrity autograph won during the same auction. With this service there is no signature required and the package will be left at the location should no person be at the home or business to receive the celebrity pictures. A tracking number for your package will be e-mailed to any winning bidder upon request. Should you require any other shipping method please send an email to info@autographstore.com prior to payment so another shipping method can be secured (additional fees may apply). Winning bidders must provide us with a STREET OR PO BOX ADDRESS in order to receive their auction merchandise/celebrity autographs. International (NON USA) shipments will be sent via Global Priority mail. The global priority mail shipping charges are $11 for the first item and $0.50 FOR EACH additional item won during the same auction. Registered bidders can check to make sure their information is current or update it by logging in and clicking the My Auction Account button at the left of the page under Bidder Information.

Payments methods:

Pay Pal is our preferred method of payment please send payment to payments@autographstore.com We accept personal checks. Checks are held until funds are collected which takes 7-10 business days; it may take up to an additional 7-10 business days after funds have been collected before shipment of the celebrity pictures will occur. We also accept cashier’s checks, certified checks, and money orders for all celebrity autographs for sale. These forms of payment are registered immediately and shipment of the celebrity pictures occurs up to 2-5 days after posting. We thank you in advance for your cooperation. Please mail payments to Autograph Store, 370 West Pleasantview Ave #256, Hackensack, NJ 07601.

Payment Of Invoices:

Invoices for the celebrity autographs will be emailed to winning bidders the day following the auction. Please do not call or email our office regarding invoices prior to the day after the auction closes. Please remember that all invoices must be paid within two weeks of the invoice date. This term of sale is very important as prompt payment of auction invoices is essential to an orderly reconciliation of the auction. Any bidder who has not paid for their celebrity pictures n full without having made prior arrangements for late payment will have future bidding privileges revoked.

A Word About Starting Bids

Autographstore.com believes what makes a good auction is quality material and reasonable starting bids that reflect the value of the celebrity autographs for sale. The vast majority of the minimum bids in our auctions are extremely low. Most represent somewhere between 10% and 50% of fair value for the celebrity autograph for sale. Many might be best described as nominal. The purpose of the minimums in all Autographstore.com's auctions is simply: 1) To limit inquiries to those bidders who are sincerely interested in a given item; and 2) To ensure that (virtually) all lots will be sold. We NEVER use a reserve in any of our auctions.

Bidder Registration:

If you are not currently a registered Autographstore.com bidder, you can find out more about the registration process or actually register to bid online on our celebrity autographs for sale by clicking here or on the "REGISTER FOR FREE" button found at the top of each page. To complete your registration process, you will need to provide basic information such as your name, address, etc. If you bid with us before, you are already eligible to bid in our auction. Your user name and password will remain the same. If you do not recall your user name and password, a new one can be issued by clicking on the "FORGOT PASSWORD" buttons found at the top of our homepage. Click the "OBTAIN PASSWORD" button and follow the simple instructions on the page this takes you to. For registration, bidding or technical questions, please e-mail info@autographstore.com.

Guide for Prospective Bidders

Placing Bids:

We strongly urge bidders to place initial bids on celebrity pictures early. Bids are welcomed and encouraged before the closing date of the auction. Most bidders choose to place their initial bids days before the closing dates.

Bid Notifications Via Email:

You will receive bid confirmations and outbid notifications via e-mail on every celebrity autograph for which you are bidding, except when you are immediately outbid upon placing your bid due to an existing higher ceiling bid. In this case you will be notified on your computer screen. It has been our experience that many internet service providers (AOL in particular) and email programs will randomly identify these e-mails as spam and will delete them or delay delivery. As this is out of our control, we are unable to rectify this issue. As a result, we strongly recommend users track their bids as we cannot guarantee timely delivery of the notification e-mails through many ISPs.

Max Bids" (Up To, Ceiling or Limit Bids):

"Max Bids" (sometimes called UP TO, CEILING or LIMIT BIDS) are an option when bidding on celebrity pictures. When placing such a bid you are instructing Autographstore.com to competitively bid on your behalf up to, but not over, a given limit. Such bids must be calculated in the appropriate 10% increments for items bid up to $1,000 to ensure that other bidders are not being outbid by less than the appropriate bidding increment. The website automatically calculates these increments for you. Please note that the "Up To" bid increments that will appear for an item will skip an increment to prevent a bidder from occupying two consecutive bids. For example, if a bid is placed of $100, the first available "Up To" bid will be $121, skipping $110, as an increment must be left available for another bidder to enter his bid. The bidding system will automatically execute "Up To" bids within seconds after a bid with an "Up To" has been topped. Remember, all bids must comply with the minimum bid raise rule.

"Straight" Bids:

Bidders may place a "Straight" or "Absolute" bid on a lot of celebrity pictures. A "Straight" bid is defined as a bid placed at a level higher than the current next incremental bid. All straight bids must be placed in appropriate increments for the specific lots to which they apply, for example, such as on certain celebrity female pictures. In the event of tie bids, the earlier received bid will take precedence. This is especially significant with reference to "Straight" bids because if a "Straight" bid is placed at a higher than normal incremental increase on an item on which another bidder has left an "Up To" bid, such "Up To" bid will have priority. For example, if a lot is bid at $100 by Bidder A with an "Up To" of $121, and Bidder B attempts to top the current high bid of $100 with a "Straight" bid of $121, then Bidder A’s "Up To" will automatically be executed and Bidder A will be the high bid at $121. Bidder B will be informed that he is not the high bid at $121, and that the next bidding increment is $133. In this way, the bidding process can accommodate bidders wishing to place "Straight" bids while not compromising the bidding strategies of "Up To" bidders.

Auction Results:

Full auction results for all our celebrity pictures and memorabilia are available immediately following the close of the auction on our website at www.autographstore.com Complete auction results will be e-mailed to all winning bidders for the items that they have won.