From: Association of Collecting Clubs
18222 Flower Hill Way #299
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
301.926.8663
Info@Collectors.Org


To: Digital Reprieve, Inc.
From: Association of Collecting Clubs

Subject: ACC Update, Vol 3, No 8, September 24, 2005

Atlantique City Coming Soon!
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The Atlantique City Antiques & Collectibles Show will be here soon - Oct 15-16. ACC will again have a booth, promoting collecting clubs and associations. Through partnering with the show management, we have 3 booths and will probably be representing nearly 250 clubs.

The visitors to this show are serious collectors and our booth has always been a popular stopping point. For those clubs who have participated in the past, unless you heard directly from us within the past 3 weeks, you can assume we have enough of your materials for this coming show. We wrote individually to some 40 clubs who we felt either had outdated material or the supply was exhausted.

We also wrote to a number of ACC member clubs who have not participated in the past. It's not too late to send us promotional brochures or membership fliers for this show. Send them to: ACC, 18222 Flower Hill Way #299, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 by Oct. 8. If you have any questions please call 301.926.8663 or e-mail: AtlantiqueCity@collectors.org

If you are planning on attending the Atlantique City Antiques & Collectibles Show, please stop by the ACC Booth - #1991 - and say "hello".


Hurricanes and Collectibles
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Our office has received several heart-breaking phone calls over the past two weeks from people in Mississippi and Louisiana who totally lost their homes including sizeable collections. Other than homeowners' insurance, none of them had special collector insurance policies, although most realized that they should have had a special policy but just "never got around to it."

We're trying to help these people find appraisers and possibly get some partial payment from their home owners' policy.

We have mentioned this before, but we're going to keep hitting it. Making sure your members have insurance on their collections is one of the best services a club can provide.

There are a number of special policies you can check out, however we feel the Collector Insurance Program provided through Association Insurance Administrators, which ACC offers our clubs, is one of the best and it is the most reasonable. Go to: http://insurance.collectors.org and check it out.

Not only can you promote individual insurance policies for your club members, but your club can have your very own club-sponsored program through the Collector Insurance Program and the club receives an administrative fee for each policy written.

If you have questions, write to insurance@collectors.org or call the AIA Office at 1.800.287.7127.


Join A Club - Helping Clubs Recruit
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As we mentioned in our last ACC Update, most of our efforts at ACC during the past five months have related to this new program centering on membership recruitment for your clubs and societies. This program will use the larger antique malls, antiques & collectibles shows, collector publications and auction houses to provide an entree for collectors to request "more information" about clubs in which they have an interest.

The last of the printing jobs relating to this project are scheduled in this coming week. We plan on launching the program at the Atlantique City Show. The program has its own website at: http://JoinAClub.Org Be sure to check out your club's information, particularly the contact information. If you are not listed, please let us know.


Club Directory - Time for Update?
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Closing out the "convention season" for many collecting clubs - which often means changes in officers and in contact information - its probably time to take a look at your information on the Club Directory. You can go directly to http://collectors.org/CD/Club_Index.asp to check it out.

You can sort clubs by club name alphabetically, or by type of club. This groups clubs by collecting areas. By "clicking" on any club, you can scroll down and find the form for submitting new or updated information.

The Club Directory on the ACC website is the most up-to-date directory on the Internet. This popular directory is produced by the Association of Collecting Clubs in partnership with David Maloney. All entries appear in both the ACC Club Directory and in the Maloney's Antiques & Collectibles Resource Guide.

With over 2,500 clubs currently listed, the directory provides such information as the club name and address, the name of your publication, a description of the club and your website address. In addition, the directory allows visitors to search the clubs by club type, club name, club description or name of club publication. No other directory provides all of this high visibility information on your club...and at no cost to you.

Make sure your club is listed. And, make sure your information is current.


PriceMiner - Special to Collecting Clubs
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PriceMiner is the most comprehensive pricing tool in the world, containing data from eBay, GoAntiques, and TIAS. Combining millions of prices realized from eBay and the leading sites for Art, Antiques and Collectibles gives you unprecedented power at your fingertips. PriceMiner, recently launched, is a product of GoAntiques, Inc.

PriceMiner presents historical price data for same or similar items that you search. Search/sort criteria include price range, category type, sale date, data source and currency (converted to US dollars). In addition, you get instant analysis in the form of graphs and charts that include average price, number of items included in the average, price range from highest to lowest, and a current estimate based on today's market conditions with a confidence factor.

Special to collector clubs. Through ACC, in cooperation with GoAntiques, you can go to: http://tradeshow.collectors.org and "click" on Affiliate Programs and join the PriceMiner.com Affiliate Program to make more money for your club. PriceMiner.com not only provides the most advanced pricing tool on the market, but also contains millions of pictures assisting your members with identification of their collectibles.

By your club joining the affiliate program and linking to PriceMiner on your club's website, the club can earn commissions every time someone subscribes to PriceMiner or links to PriceMiner through your site. There is more information on the Club Special on the ACC site.

It is FREE to join and only takes a few minutes to do. Start earning money for your club...by providing a new service helpful to your entire membership.

That's all for now. Let us know any time that we can be of assistance.

Larry Krug & Rick Moses
Association of Collecting Clubs
18222 Flower Hill Way #299
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
301.926.8663
info@collectors.org
http://collectors.org

 

Previous Newsletters: 

• Vol 3, No 7, August 31, 2005

• Vol 3, No 6, June 21, 2005

• Vol 3, No 5, June 16, 2005

• Vol 3, No 4, May 17, 2005

• Vol 3, No 3, April 17, 2005

• Vol 3, No 2, March 6, 2005