UPDATED: Frisco Slides on eBay

Re: ATTENTION: Frisco Slides on eBay

Manny, the V700 can be found for $600 or sometimes less if you find one on Epson's web site as refurbished. They are an excellent scanner. Do you have software to save the images as Vector files? I wish I knew how to do that or could find some easy software for it.

 

Re: ATTENTION: Frisco Slides on eBay

Yes we did.

 

Re: ATTENTION: Frisco Slides on eBay

Give me until tomorrow to sort it out guys. I've been on days off from work and trying to get caught up with projects at home. I will figure it all out and give everyone a shout.

Charlie

 

Re: ATTENTION: Frisco Slides on eBay

UPDATE​

Ok guys and gals, here's where we stand on this: We won the auction, meaning that all of these 900 to 1000 images will appear on Frisco.org scanned as best as we can get them scanned. We have two members who have volunteered to scan the slides so we will work on the logistics of that. There's something fun to look forward to.

MONEY​

We had pledges from some of our very fine members here to cover the costs, however; some people were extremely generous in their pledges. The final total (including shipping) for this was $350.12.

Now that we have won and you know that everyone will have the same access to the images, I am wondering if a few more people would be willing to share the load?

As such, if you click on Support $ at the top (or right here) it will take you to the payments page. I have set up a payment called "Slide Buyers Club" and the payment amount is $10. That means if 35 people gave $10, no one would have to pay a lot of money at all.

In a few days, I will report to the volunteers who have already pledged money how much to pay. (I have already paid for the slides out of pocket so this will be reimbursement money.)

Some folks pledged over $100 (as I pledged $100 as well) and all we would have to do is combine my $100 and $100 from a couple of other people with a $50 pledge to be done with it but that seems a bit unfair. I don't care about my contribution but I think some of these other fellows have been very generous and this is all to share with others.

As my wife says, "many hands make light work" so if many hands donate $10, no one will be out a lot of money and this will enhance the site and give us new things to talk about. As an added bonus, I will zip the pictures into an easy download (or maybe three or four files) to be made available to anyone that donates (once scanning is complete).

Again, I will update folks on the amount raised and the amount needed, so if you were someone who pledged money, stand by and I will contact you later in the week.

As far as acquiring the actual slides, they are being sent to me and we will work out who is scanning and I will send them wherever then need to go. They are being sent in carousels and that is expensive but I think they should be taken out for shipping to whoever is going to scan them.

Thanks again everyone.

Charlie

 

Thank you Steve.

We have raised $30 on this today so more would be great for you folks that would consider a small contribution.

Thanks everyone.

Charlie

 

We'll deal with that down the road. It will be quite some time before we get to that point.

Charlie

 

We are up to $40 now. Thanks to everyone who has contributed. We will still appreciate $10 helping hands.

Charlie

 

$50, thank you!

 

$60, woo hoo!

 

Up to $80. Thanks folks.

Charlie

 

$150.

Thank you!

 

$160.

We'll cut it off if we hit $200 (four more people) and those of us who pledged originally will take care of the rest with what will generally end up being $25 donations.

Thanks again folks.

Charlie