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I recently picked up an estate collection of what I call "press passes". The deceased was a reporter and kept his passes to sporting events that allowed him entry to the events to report them (mostly employed by Britain's BBC and Australia's ABC) for the news.
I have just done a search of Press Pass on Ebay and it appears to be inundated with sports cards, mostly not the type of thing that I have (and most of the high prices relate to Dale Earnhardt).
This begs the questions:
(a) What are these sports card press pass items that are mostly showing up on the search?
(b) What should I be calling the passes that I have so that they will be found, or should I just call them press passes?
Thanks, Kevin
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Kevin,
I would have to think a bit about what exactly to call them but I would probably try to get something related to the press-journalism/journalist/reporter/news media and the actual sport in the title.
Assuming these are of significance to list individually, I would list in 2 catagories-Specific sport and historical memorabilia.
cariad
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G'day Cariad,
The significance is sporting, not historic. Since Ebay totally screwed the structure of the sporting memorabilia, there is a need to list under both Sport:Memorabilia:Other and Sport:Fan Shop:then whichever sport - to have any chance of those who still look there of finding reasonable memorabilia. It used to sell much better than it does now, and the effect was instant when they dismantled the category structure. I used to do brilliantly out of old golf memorabilia and very well with old Tennis memorabilia, now it is hard work to get single bids - and I do believe that it is almost entirely because of the confusing changes to the categories last year. Those who only look through the memorabilia section no longer have it split into sport - if you want to look through the actual sport, you need to go into "fan shop", which does not attract the browsers who are looking for old memorabilia. A vicious (vacuous? ) circle that damaged the market seriously for mid range items of sports memorabilia.
I am just ranting. I do appreciate the input.
Many Thanks, Kevin
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>(a) What are these sports card press pass items that are mostly showing up on the search?
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Press Pass is a brand of sports trading cards.
Here's their web site.
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Thanks NewsChick,
I gathered that it was a type of card, but didn't realise it was a brand name. I guess if I call these press passes they will be buried amongst that type of card. I wonder if "media pass" will work, or possibly "media press pass" so that anyone searching for real press passes will also have a chance of finding them.
Cheers, Kevin
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Almost everything called "media pass" is mid 1990's onwards.....
..... today's completed search did include this almost unique piece of, umm, memorabilia.
My thought at this stage is to go with "media press pass" when I list them.
Thanks, Kevin
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Hi Kevin. I've seen media press passes also called press credentials or badges. Maybe using a combination of those words would distinguish them from the sports card.
Blanche
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G'day Blanche,
Whilst a badge is generally considered to be a metal "button" here in Australia (I had NEVER heard the term pinback before finding Ebay), the search for "press badge" does yield the type of thing that I have.
Now to work out how to word them so that I don't confuse the Australian bidders, and so they do not expect something different.....
Many Thanks, Kevin