From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   Oh yeah, the bad news from though was if you go there, don't bring any   
   contemporary autographs at all unless you have Marily Monroe or James   
   Dean etc.  But even on those, they are looking for either a special   
   story or something like you found it in a dumpster.  They don't want   
   "I bought it on Ebay".  So don't take anything you got from Ebay   
   unless it's something super rare, valuable and you've no doubt it's   
   legit and interesting.  Pretty much all this convention stuff and ebay   
   and even like my Star Wars collection, it's worthless to them.  Now   
   mine MIGHT be of minor interest because of the sheer amount and the   
   type of ones I have, but all these Dave Prowse and stuff you are all   
   paying 40-60 bucks for and all this crap, it's worth less than half   
   what you paid for it on the secondary market and in a  few years it'll   
   be worth less than 5 bucks.  It'll be only when you're 90 that the   
   prices will go back up and by then your families will have thrown the   
   crap out.  It's all "mass produced" and everyone is selling graphs and   
   they are common now.  So nothing unless it's 1960's or before they   
   proabably won't even look at (unless you have a story about your mum   
   working for Princess Di and she gave you a signed letter with a story   
   etc).  LOL  You think I joke; but I know my stuff.   
      
   On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:51:36 -0400, Sue H  wrote:   
      
   >Yeah, it pretty much was like NOT about the fans of the show.  What it   
   >seems like to me (and this includes me reading their rules and the   
   >booklet I got) that this is geared to what the appraiser's like   
   >personally.  I got a feeling the producers let the appraiser's talk   
   >them into certain objects etc.  I think from there, the producers take   
   >all the suggestions and weed some out (for example if they had two   
   >people with the same type pottery or too many that had  baseball   
   >related items they'd nix the ones who either didn't show well on   
   >camera etc.  I think for the feedback booth they want people perky,   
   >funny or who say unique things.  I don't think looks of people have   
   >anything to do with if you get aired but you have to be able to   
   >communicate; but the star of the show is the item.   
   >   
   >Furthermore, I learned that the people who appraise (with possibly the   
   >exception of the Keno brothers but I am not sure) do it FREE. I heard   
   >they even pay their own airfare and hotel.  So I think they do it for   
   >two reasons:  1) National exposure for their career or business and 2)   
   >so they can buy at a good price the items people have (I think people   
   >will contact them after the venue because they leave their business   
   >cards on the table; so say that guy thinks 15k for his diorama is   
   >good, he'll call the guy to buy it after (and it really might fetch   
   >20k or perhaps the guy will buy it for 10 and sell it for 15).   
   >   
   >That's my take.  It wasn't glamorous one bit; but like with most of   
   >the events I go to, the best fun is the people watching and   
   >interacting with others.   
   >   
   >On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:44:01 -0700 (PDT), barefoot   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>i actually think this stinks.... i think we touched on this when you   
   >>had tickets..and you've just confirmed what i said then and what i was   
   >>told before....who knows..   
   >>mike   
      
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