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Did eBay Ruin Autograph Collecting?

5 February 2010 No Comment by

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.

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About Kelly Rowles


The founder and creator of The Convention Fans Blog is Kelly Rowles. She created the blog back in the fall of 2008, and has been working on it ever since. She started attending fandom conventions back in Orlando, Florida when she was just a teenager. Now based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she’s exploring all the tri-state area has to offer. While she’ll attend just about any convention out of sheer curiosity, at heart she’s mostly a Star Trek fan looking to meet every major cast member from each series. She’s getting closer to that goal than she ever thought possible.

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