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Proposal - Starting A Comic Buying/Scanning Group

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Jay374:
These rare treasures are being lost everyday to collectors or speculators, who may not be interested in having the comic book scanned and preserved, and that is their
perogative.

I have held discussions with other members of the collecting community, regarding forming a "purchasing group" and supported by member donations, to purchase these unscanned comics. The comics could then be scanned. The scans circulated in normal fashion, and the original comic be placed on Ebay once again to recoup some of the funds (perhaps all or more) for replenishing the treasury for purchasing yet other needed titles.

Such an endeavor should not be affiliated with DCM directly, but consideration to DCM guidelines should be made.

Just curious to see what others may think of such an undertaking.

I have contacted another who may be interested in spearheading such an effort, and I await a reply.

Your thoughts please
 

Yoc:
Hi Jay,
To avoid this post being lost in the eBay messages I gave it it's own topic.

John C:
To recap for you, Jay, the idea comes up once in a while (here and GAC), but never seems to come together as anything.  My guess (with no consultation with anybody else) is that it's because it's always presented as "an idea," rather than "I've set this up, am doing this, and am taking donations."  It's a good idea, but lacks the bulldozer to sweep everybody up.

That's all to say that you shouldn't be discouraged by a lack of response, and if you need help getting it off the ground, ask away.  Quite a few people are looking for such a thing, so I'd expect it to get loud, once it's running, but sadly not much before.

Yoc:
It might also depend on the book being considered for purchase.
Something 'exciting' might bring more interest. 
Just a thought.

Geo (RIP):
Also announce your choices as some maybe already available for scanning, just not released yet, shouldn't have to buy something someone else already has.
Just a heads up for buying books. I've had it happen to me even with telling folks I have the book ready to scan and it was on my pile, they'd go ahead and release a scan they found on the net. I will eventfully release those books even though someone else already did, they've just been bumped backdown on my scan pile list.

Geo

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