Well is it? We hare at Wynnco.com have been buying and selling record awards since 1978. The reason I feel like this guide needs to be written is the huge amount of fake record awards for sale on Ebay. All this 'RIAA MEMBER" stuff is not real! These are not RIAA awards. They have never been awarded to anyone. They are just made up to be sold on Ebay to people who don't know what a real record award is supposed to be.

The only record awards that are official RIAA awards have an RIAA logo or an RIAA hologram in them. I see what is known among collectors as the RIAA "strip plate" awards on ebay all the time in black frames. These are not real. They we're never made in black frames. Again, I write this because it is sad to see so many of these fake "RIAA MEMBER" awards listed on Ebay everyday and people bidding on them. The re-sale value on these is going to be nearly nothing and a knowledgable collector woundn't take one for free because they are not really even record awards.

For more information before buying you might want to check out the RIAA's web site for the history of record awards. Stop letting these people rip you off!