Did eBay Ruin Autograph Collecting?
5 February 2010
by Kelly Rowles
I’m one of those people who has been collecting autographs for years. I didn’t intend to. I know lots of people don’t. I even know some people who look down on people who do. I never intended to start, honest.
I became an autograph collector inadvertently. When I was in my mid-teens, my mom took me to Kennedy Space Center’s Star Trek day. It was a chance to meet some stars from the franchise, which was a first for me, because I hadn’t started attending conventions yet. Part of the deal was that you could get an autograph for free when you met them. I thought this was pretty cool, so I got an autograph from Garrett Wang, Rene Auberjonois, and Walter Koenig.
