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Does anyone have any suggestions regarding who the most reputable match worn shirt and football memorabilia dealers are?

Does anyone have any insight, positive or negative, about the sites below?

footballmatchshirts.co.uk
matchwornshirts.com
urmyhero.co.uk/
A1 Sporting Memorabilia (bigbluetube.com)

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

All those are good and trustworthy.

All good but footballmatchshirts.com tends to sell a lot of player issue shirts as matchworn which means that they are sold for about double what they are worth. It is very hard to know which are which, best stay clear imo. A lot of the bigger collectors wont touch them but others think that they are fab. I bought a shirt from them and for years i thought that it was great but when I tried to sell it on with the the certificate from them, all the main collectors said it was worthless as they knew who owned the shirt that was worn in the game that I had and so I went back to them with this, they said that the shirt was worn in the second half but the player got subbed at half time and it was a euro cup final and I paid silly money and they said that I was to late to get a refund and that I had to send the shirt back anyway which I refused to do as they could sell it again if they wished to.

Thats a bit harsh! I know that Footballmatchshirts also sell Issued shirts but not certain that they sell them as match worn. I dont use them myself because they are too expensive and when you do buy from them they keep contacting you with other shirts that they think that you would want.

how is it all these "collectors" seem to be able to get so many "rare" shirts and items that the regular person/fan cannot

is it the club give htem to sell or sosmething
that i can never get is how it seems only these collector/dealers can get anything

he would not know what worn meant

if its been in the same city as the players's worn shirt he would sell it as bench worn

total rip off merchant that shakey is

Hold on here. Just read again the filth that the last poster has written. Does he strike you as a Mature, Knowlegable articulate, trustful person.
I'll rest my case !!!

Really brave and mature that. Coming on a forum and threatening violence over a football shirt.

From experience of buying from 3 of those, there is only one smug faced pushy story telling bad apple in there and it most certainly is not footballmatchshirts.co.uk.

Maybe its the cronies of this real bad apple seller who have hijacked this thread. Except for Hydey of course who just seems to have a personal issue with somebody.

So in answer to the original question, top two on the list are absolutely fine, and i didn't realise A1 Sporting Speakers sold match worn shirts, well certainly not in any volume. As another poster has said also try classicfootballshirts.

What do you think tomas? just sit back and watch this thread kick off?

I have bought from all of those mentioned at one time or another and all are good in my experience. Problem is they all dislike each other!
Whether its rivalry or just personal issues I dont know but they should realise that they arent helping themselves by constantly bickering over whos the best, most honest etc
Maybe it would be very good for them all and for shirt collectors if they learned to get on with each other.
That would be nice and make me feel better about buying from all of them as the negativity just puts me off buying match shirts altogether.

Having been a member of various Football Shirt Forums for many years tryer i recognise the Hallmark signs of this thread.
You will never find Simon at Footballmatchshirts getting involved or resorting to starting threads to slag others in the dealer world. Unfortunately of late every Shirt Collecting Forum has had a thread of this nature started in an attempt to undermine him. By the same bunch with different user names.
It is obvious why. The current financial climate is causing some people to use these tactics to try to ruin a very genuine person who many have bought from for a lot of years.
His links within the Football world speak for themselves including a lot of Charity involvment as many people know of Simons Health issues !
But this how low some people will go.
Never be put off from dealing with Simon and dont let others sway you into believing all Dealers are bad.

If its Celtic shirts you are interested in, I know of a couple of dealers in Glasgow that can get player shirts.

Stu

I am very lucky that I am reading all these advice as I very soon to buying a Wesley M Brown shirt from one of these shopping for an amount of money for certain but halted now. Hey guys I am appreciation of your help and for certain I am looking for Manchester shirts with guarantee trusting of club.
Rooney Giggs Ronaldo and everybody

I have been looking for other forums on shirt collecting, can anybody let me know where they are at please?

I dont hide my name and i am not Simon !!...My collectionf of Swedish match worn shirts can be seen at : www.flickr.com/swedenshirts. I have got no need to hide.
I am defending him because i know how genuine he is !!
Anybody with any common sense can see what has happened here !!
1.First of all we get an anonymous person asking for genuine dealers
2. Shakey is suddenly brought into question.
3. Some anonymous people ask for help with a certain shirt.
4. Then the obvious Memorabilia investor site advert is planted run by a rival dealer.

Come on people...use your brains !!