Items on ebay

[briantrainman]

There is a constant stream of postings on ebay of DAR related items. As many of these are photographs that would greatly add to the Wiki site, I am sure that more than one of us has bid against the other in the hope of winning these auctions. I was wondering if we could start a fund for bidding on these items, That way we would not be driving up the price by bidding against each other. We could then post the photos on the Wiki and then maybe donate the photos to a museum interested in DAR items or resell them. Please chime in with your opinions and suggestions. Brian

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Interesting idea! Too bad we didn't think of that when the MacIntosh slides first started.

What I actually was doing was contacting buyers and asking them if they'd share a scan with the DAR, therefore avoiding any purchase at all. Interestingly enough, we made a lots of freinds that way and over half of the MacIntosh buyers have contributed scans of their purchases. As a side note, probably because of this, eBay started hiding the winning buyers names about half way though the sale of the MacIntosh slides so I was unable to continue this practise and no longer can properly credit all the slides to their righfull owners.

What is more likely to net some additional scans is perhaps putting on a drive so that everyone reviews their collections, scans everything they have and uploads it. In most cases, most people have only scanned and uploaded a smal fraction of their collections (me included).

As well, there are many gems to be scanned in the Museum as well if we could organize something to start that. The museum is fully supportive and but scanning and cataloguing their collection, it would actually help them to apply for more funding.

So interesting idea that opens up a lot of options.