Probably 70% of my collection has come from eBay. But eBay also provided a way of contacting other collectors. For the longest time, I thought that I was the only pre-pro collector and my knowledge on the subject was limited to what I had read in Barb Edmonson’s wonderful books. Once I started talking to the competition on eBay, I was amazed to find that there were many similarly afflicted folks out there, and what a wonderfully smart and eclectic group they’ve turned out to be. I’ve made many new friends through eBay that I wouldn’t have otherwise. That’s turned out to be the most valued and least expected part of collecting these glasses.
Perhaps there's a need for an internet collector’s club?
Well, that’s partly what www.pre-pro.com is about. Clearly there’s not enough of us out there to support local gatherings, so pre-pro.com was intended in part to be somewhere for collectors to congregate and communicate.
For example, we have “The Circle”, a blind e-mail list that can be used to send messages to other collectors (we have about 30 or so collectors in The Circle at the moment) plus there is the Discussion Room for online postings. I’m not sure that this is really the place to go into the details of pre-pro.com – but perhaps it might be interesting to have a conversation about the direction of the site in another column?
It certainly would be. Tell us about your shot-glass collection.
Well, I’m one of those sad collectors who never met a pre-pro glass they
didn’t like, and my collection reflects that. I have some real dinged dogs
in there but some true beauties also.
