Thanks. I do know a little bit about how these things go. Usually a company contracts with the celebrity to sign x amount of items and sends them to the celeb. For guitars for example, they send that plastic thing near the strings called a pick guard. They might send 100 or more for the celeb to sign and send back. Then the company glues them on crappy guitars and sells them for much more than they are worth. (I saw this on an episode of Pawn Stars where someone tried to sell a crap guitar with a popular signature for way too much money).
It is possible the contracted company that Greenwood used did the same - especially since they glued the page in.
That said - they could have also copied the signature, made their own pages, and pasted those in while they sold the real sigs somewhere else and pocketed even more money.
If your sigs exactly match the sigs posted by u/GodLovingPatriot I would immediately sue the company. In the mean time I would send a tweet or truth to Trump, Don Jr, and Lee Greenwood and let them know you suspect that the company used is committing fraud. You might have a better chance of getting a response from Jr. He would certainly have his dad look at it.
Some of them, like the “Official Trump Watch Collection” — where one model costs $100,000 — were listed as affiliated with CIC Ventures LLC, a company that Trump reported owning in his 2023 financial disclosure.
Turns out the guy listed as owning that LLC is John B Marion. He was (is still?) a Trump attorney. He helped force the local city council to allow Trump to live at Mar-A-Lago even though it was classified as a business (the golf club).
I wonder if Trump paid him by signing stuff so he can sell it? If you look at this business site put out by the State of Florida - so it is official - you can see info on the company. If you click on the PDFs at the bottom you will see John B Marion's name in the annual reports. There are also email addresses in those documents - you might want to try those.
Thanks. I do know a little bit about how these things go. Usually a company contracts with the celebrity to sign x amount of items and sends them to the celeb. For guitars for example, they send that plastic thing near the strings called a pick guard. They might send 100 or more for the celeb to sign and send back. Then the company glues them on crappy guitars and sells them for much more than they are worth. (I saw this on an episode of Pawn Stars where someone tried to sell a crap guitar with a popular signature for way too much money).
https://www.soundpure.com/a/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Parts-of-an-Acoustic-Guitar.jpg
It is possible the contracted company that Greenwood used did the same - especially since they glued the page in.
That said - they could have also copied the signature, made their own pages, and pasted those in while they sold the real sigs somewhere else and pocketed even more money.
If your sigs exactly match the sigs posted by u/GodLovingPatriot I would immediately sue the company. In the mean time I would send a tweet or truth to Trump, Don Jr, and Lee Greenwood and let them know you suspect that the company used is committing fraud. You might have a better chance of getting a response from Jr. He would certainly have his dad look at it.
Thank you.
Oh this isn't good...
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/donald-trumps-latest-branded-venture-is-guitars-that-cost-up-to-10000/
Turns out the guy listed as owning that LLC is John B Marion. He was (is still?) a Trump attorney. He helped force the local city council to allow Trump to live at Mar-A-Lago even though it was classified as a business (the golf club).
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/donald-trump-attorney-defends-mar-a-lago-residency-town-council/
I wonder if Trump paid him by signing stuff so he can sell it? If you look at this business site put out by the State of Florida - so it is official - you can see info on the company. If you click on the PDFs at the bottom you will see John B Marion's name in the annual reports. There are also email addresses in those documents - you might want to try those.
https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/corporationsearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=CICVENTURES%20M210000044030&aggregateId=forl-m21000004403-3a3d1546-28ce-4220-adee-cbeb943dd850&searchTerm=CIC%20VENTURES%20LLC&listNameOrder=CICVENTURES%20M210000044030