Hey, everyone. I'm sorry if you were all sitting at your keyboard ready to place bids in 2 hours, but I still have a few things to tweak, some lots to replace, some lots to add, and so on. I bumped the start to Wednesday (ie, 49 hours and 13 minutes from now). If I get everything done early, I'll fire it up sooner.

Some good news... we WILL have a hardcopy catalog available this year, thanks to Ed Hertel (who also cropped and cleaned up my ugly pictures and made them look nice). I understand that we've sold catalogs in the past but I don't know what the cost has been, what format/binding they were in, nor what the format/cost will be this year. Last year's was 94 pages long. I'll let you all know once I get that handled.

In the meantime, you can get registered for the auction right now. It will ask you to enter your credit card info and run a $1 pre-auth. This is to validate users so we don't get stiffed by fake-as* buyers who could be coming from anywhere around the globe.

Link to auction: https://casinocollectiblesassociation.hibid.com/catalog/742310/casino-collectibles-association-2026-fundraiser

Thanks for your patience and a huge thanks to our 100% donors and our 10% commission donors as well. We had a great response without much coercion on my part.

Check out the stats below. We're already had over 1400 views in just a few days!! Hopefully they all come back and bid!

Lastly, if you are interested in taking on the Auction Chair role next year, it should be pretty easy for you now that I've gone through the headache of learning how to put on an online auction with webcasting this year. Of course, we haven't had the live event yet, so things COULD still go wrong, LOL.

-- barry