Thank you everyone for your feedback.
Here are some of my thoughts:
Guest posts. I read the Tom Owens blog Baseball by the letters. It turns out he was also the autograph corner writer in the old Baseball Card News that I subscribed to when I was in my early teens. His articles got me started in TTM autograph collecting. He also wrote a book about autograph collecting that I bought used.
More pictures. I am guilty of this as well, although I did post my three Pricess Leia autographs, some hockey successes, and some IP from a minor league game. For the most part I don't go through the trouble. I do check all of the success threads and love seeing everyone else's pictures. Sometimes I have sent players I normally wouldn't have based on this.
I miss having RHauch share his Harvey list. I know it was a great deal of work, but there are several guys from my 1979 set I would never have gotten without his help. I am not sure what Harvey would have thought about me having free access to his list.
Random fun stuff. I normally focus on baseball, but have gotten some Magnum PI cards signed by Tom Selleck and some Star Wars cards autographed by Carrie Fisher. I would love to get some A-Team cards signed by Mr. T and Murdock and Face.
I have not heard of Tom Owens blog before, I should check it out.
The thing that hurt me was photobucket changing their interface, it used to be very easy to post photos, after their hip, fresh, new, look it became way to cumbersome. I sure miss it as I don't even use it anymore. I use the photo hosting here or on SCN.
I miss Ron's list too and helped out when I could. Frustrating was that there didn't seem to be enough please and thank yous and we never seemed to know if people were getting success or what. I always had the feeling that there was too much "asking just to ask" and people wouldn't actually send to half the guys they asked about.
I would like to post photos of successes, but I don't have a photobucket, nor am I really interested in doing so..... but I would like to figure out doing a blog to share some of the drawings that have been helpful for me in getting my successes. Anyone who knows a good tutorial for a beginner I would be interested in....
Also, it would be nice to have an area where folks who are looking for cards that they need for ttm purposes get help in procuring them. I have lots of needs and the cards don't have to be in that great of shape.....
Finally, it would be cool to see traders fan out more with making their extra ttms available for trade, etc....
There is a photo hosting option here on the Bench, if someone made a tutorial on how to used it would that help?
Maybe a thread for one or two cards only, "who has this random common that I can use for TTMing?"
As far as people making there tradelist available there is not much more that can be done on that, we have the forum, people just have to do the work.
Ed,
Sorry to hear about your job, I too am laid off, as is a cousin of mine I just found out, this seems to be the year for it! We will pray for a good job coming your way!
It was a bit of a shock to be laid off after 8 years of a job well done but the new management is so bad it's not all that shocking, I wasn't the first and I won't be the last.
I wouldnt mind seeing some of the stickys gone since no one has commented for a couple years and to find something on them takes forever.
wouldnt mind seeing a post where theirs some addresses for the non baseball players of the allen and ginter sets so people can try to do the complete sets
maybe some of the guys who are good at creating cards with their computers can write a couple tutorials on a sticky for people who just isnt that tech savvy. Pics of their cards, how tos, what they want in return for a card made. That sort of thing. Have seen some really good home made cards out their. Wouldnt mind seeing a email address list either. Have recently added pat summit, geno aurriema, coach k, gus malzahn just by sending a nice email.
Good point on the stickys, I cleaned some up and updated some others.
I'll play around with some ideas for non/other sport stuff. We for years had an email list but it was so old I just unstuck it.
Would also like to see maybe a other sport addresses also. I have golf and nascar addresses. But lacking in the mma. Boxing, olympic type addresses. Thanks
