This week I had this experience on my RosesButtons site. On Wednesday, I listed my collector buttons as “buy it now” instead of at auction as an experiment. And wow! Here it is Friday, and two of the four are sold already!

So, that makes me wonder if I shouldn’t do more initial listing as “buy it now” instead of as “auction” listings. So I created a poll to ask you what you think. I’ve listed the main types of listings that I do as Roses Sundries. And you can tell me what you think.

Buy It Now or Auction??

I will respect your privacy and you don’t have to give any information you don’t want to give. But if you’d like a personal response, please include the information that I need to do so.

I’ve been reading up on ephemera on the net and the reasons that people collect ephemera are as varied as the categories that the Ephemera Society of America lists on their website. You have the specific collectors that everyone knows about, like postage stamps, baseball cards and postcards. And then you have the folks who collect anything that catches their eye. I think the bottom line is that those who collect it, do so because it gives a window on our past. A daily menu from 1938 gives us a picture of what an ordinary person did in their everyday life. This is the part of history that doesn’t get written into history books. But those little glimpses are more fascinating than the accounts written in books because it allows us to imagine how it might have been.
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