Hi Everyone,
This is Yoc talking as a member of GAC. I'm am NOT making any demands of you as a Staff member and the GAC site and admins are
not forcing anyone to contribute to this fund. But speaking as a fellow fan of golden age scans I hope you will consider the following...
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Someone once brought up the idea of starting a fund to buy choice books off eBay for the site. The logistics of such an idea made it a non-starter. But here is a chance to really add a LOT of missing books to the site!
But it's time to step up if we want to keep the JVJ Collection Project running smoothly.So far Jim has trusted GAC members Jon, Geo and soon OtherEric with scanning books from his collection without any problems. We've all gotten to enjoy these scans at no cost to us. But it does cost Jim money to send out these books and he is a retiree on a fixed income. Surly we don't expect him to bare the cost of letting US get to finally see these books? So for those postage expenses not already being covered by our scanners we need to help.
It's time for GAC members to help out on a truly vital project!I feel we should be trying to make this project as painless as possible for Jim. After all he's trusted what basically are
complete strangers with books he's spent his own money collecting over the years. And if you've seen the INCREDIBLE list of books he's willing to share from if continued it could add THOUSANDS of dollars in Overstreet value to the site for only the cost of postage! You will NEVER find a chance like this again! Please don't allow this project to wither just because Jim can't afford to send out his boxes of comics to our scanners!
And please remember - for many of these books this might well be the
only chance we have of getting them scanned. Many of them are so obscure you couldn't find them or so desirable by collectors you could never afford to buy one even if you could find them! With this project the cost of a single choice book on eBay or Heritage could keep the project going for another month or two enabling Jim to send out
dozens of books!Might I suggest that some members forgo their next eBay purchase or that new BlueRay disk and contribute to this fund? The number of books we've already added has been just great and things are only going to get better as OtherEric and perhaps even Narfstar join the ranks of scanners and we start seeing scans from these two respected members.
It truly is a win-win situation for everyone. We can preserve these slowly ticking pulp time bombs for posterity and get to read scans of some Very Obscure, often Prohibitively Expensive books for pennies on the dollar of their Overstreet values!
Make me proud GAC members - please help!-------------
Anyone who can send a donation PLEASE make a note of it here in this tread.
I've also asked Jim to keep us informed on his postage expenses.So to start with Jim has spent
$50 so far.
I Personally have cut that in HALF with a
$25 US donation via
PayPal. I know some abhor the company but it seems the easiest way to get Jim the funds. Especially for our foreign members.
PayPal asks for an email address for Jim - PLEASE use the following address when making a PayPal donation to the fund:
orders@bpib.com
Jim's outstanding costs as a running total so far - $25
