Lots of goodies this week, especially if you're a Disney Collector. You might as well get ready to spend $$, 'cause you're sure to be tempted.

PLEASE, PLEASE vote in the eBay Polls. I went out to an eBay Collectibles Summit in September and met lots of folks in charge of the areas we are interested in. They really seemed to care what the participants had to say and it'll be interesting to see if our input has any direct results. I also really had the feeling that they don't think the fraud/repro issue is as bad as we do, although I was pleased to learn there are over 500 eBay employees that deal directly with different fraud issues. I have a few short articles up on the Collectibles site now and more will follow.

Participants included Kovels, Harry Rinker, Krause Publications, Wizard World, Country Home, Playthings, Maine Antique Digest, Antique Week, Antiques & Collecting Magazine, Giftware News and Pioneer Communications.
>>> eBay, The Summit

eMail Problems -- YIKES! Since I typically get about 500 email messages a day, I didn't notice any slowdown. Well, apparently one setting got changed and some messages were not getting through. I finally got it figured out when an alert eBay seller tracked me down when his emails to me were bouncing. THANKS CHRIS! When I got it straightened out, I had an additional 4000 messages to deal with -- just from a few weeks. Oh well. If you sent me something that I should have responded to, please re-send the note. It probably was in that huge pile!

Hobby Lobby has the Christmas ceramics (including jars) at 50% off this week. I haven't been there in a few weeks, but I did see the Figi Wanted snowman at the time. Check it out, most likely there will be more new pieces out.