DOLLS THIS WEEK-- NOVEMBER 10, 1999
NEWS
WELCOME BARBIE®!
Barbie® is officially joining this site! Up until now, Barbie® has
had a separate site here at About.com. With the departure of the Barbie Doll
Collecting Guide, Barbie will now be fully covered here at Dolls at About.com! I am
hard at work adding hundreds of links, plus information and articles. Barbie will
also be extensively covered in the Doll Price Guide and Collector Galleries, and there
will be continuing coverage of Barbie in Dolls This Week. A Barbie-only chat will be
added (Guest Chat Host volunteers are welcome--please apply to collectdolls.guide@about.com) and we will
have a special area in the Forum for Barbies as well. More information and links
will follow in next week's About Dolls Newsletter! And, of course, you will continue
to get the same, full coverage of ALL dolls at this site as you have gotten in the past.
TOYS R US BIG BOOK JUST ARRIVED THIS WEEKEND!
When I was little, I would sit with the Sears catalog and drool
over the Barbies, Chattys and other dolls (OK, am I dating myself here?) for weeks and
weeks before Christmas. Well, the Toys R Us Big Book just was delivered in
newspapers this weekend, and it is the closest thing to a "Sears Catalog" that
children from the current generation will know! And, breaking news is that the Big
Book directed so much traffic to the Toys R Us web
site, that it crashed it today! From Excite News.
DOLL CONTESTS!
Don't miss the just announced Krelink Doll Pin Contest and contests at
Auntie.com For information on prizes and how to enter: Doll Contests.
AUCTION WATCH BLOCKED BY eBAY
Do you enjoy using the Auction portal sites that let you search
for a particular doll up for auction across several sites? Well, last month, eBay
asked 30 such sites, including AuctionWatch http://www.auctionwatch.com
to stop searching their eBay for auctions. Most auction portal sites, fearing legal
action, agreed to stop their searches. But, AuctionWatch stood up to eBay, and now
eBay is blocking them? Will legal action result on the part of AuctionWatch?
Read the full story at MSNBC.com
YAHOO AUCTIONS ARE A SERIOUS
COMPETITOR TO eBAY!
Yahoo becomes the FIRST auction site (beside
eBay) to have over 1 million items up for auction simultaneously. As Yahoo goes from
zero items to 1 million items at one time for auction in ONE year, will it be eBay's first
serious competition? In the Dolls area, they have over 13,000 items up for bid, BUT
they many fewer categories than eBay. Get the facts from MSNBC.com.
Theriaults Premier Marquis Auction Weekend
January 7 to 9, 1000, Newport Beach, California. Five doll and teddy
bear auctions are planned for the weekend, including cataloged and Discovery Day Auctions.
For more information, visit Theriaults.com
June Goodwin Seminar Announced!
There will be a June Goodwin Polymer Clay dollmaking seminar in Bradenton, Florida
on March 3, 4 and 5, 2000! For more information, contact Michele Ginn at Micant2@aol.com.
Montana SummerFEST 2000
Polymer clay classes and competition June 18 to 25 in Billings Montana. Go to
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/PromotionsUSA
l information and a list of classes.
Gene Convention 2000 will be held Oct. 20-23 at the Arlington Heights
Hilton in Arlington Heights, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago). Registration is $325 and
limited to 700. For more information, contact genecon99@aol.com
DO YOU HAVE NEWS FOR DOLLS THIS WEEK?
Become a Roving Reporter and write a report on a doll even! Or, do you have a
doll event to promote, a new doll to announce, or an updated web site? Please e-mail
me at collectdolls.guide@about.com
and put "Newsletter" in the subject line--For events, please give me 7 to 10
days advance notice (at minimum!) in order to have your event appear on time.
DO YOU HAVE DOLLS FOR SALE OR TRADE?
Did you know that you can place FREE classified ads for your dolls for sale or
trade (or, dolls wanted) in the Dolls Forum? Dealers, collectors, everyone welcome;
feel free to link to your eBay auctions as well! Visit the Dolls Forum to find out how to place your ad; if you
are not yet a member, click on GUEST, but you will need a free Forum ID to place your ad.
Previous Weeks in Dolls:
NOVEMBER
WWF Doll Pulled Off Shelves; Amazon.com or eToys Rule the Web
For Toys?
OCTOBER
Flashback 50s Gene Convention; Barbie Chronicles; Christmas
Toy Lists
The Death of Toys?; Woman's Shelter Turns Away Barbie
Donation
Jill Barad's Future; Rockers Make Dolls; Doll Shop Locator
Antiques RoadKill; Mattel Stock Slides
SEPTEMBER
Chatty Cathy Collector Profiled; FAO Catalog Released;
Villain Doll
Farm Women Diss Barbie; Johnstone Contest Winners Announced
Barbie Stamp; Beanies Marketing Ploy; Theriaults Dollmastery
Weekend
AUGUST
More on Ebay Reserve Policy; Jack Johnston Prosculpt Contest
Ebay Change Reserve Policy
Barbie Slugs it out with Sindy; Toy Design Industry; Arab
Doll Leila
Barbie as a Computer; $1 Million Doll Auction
JULY
Dolls of Color e-mail list; TRUs buys Imaginarium; New
eBay look
eBay Book on Internet Collecting; Beanie Barbie
More eBay Outages; Top Dolls of the Summer
Summer Festival in Billings; Doll Summer School at Crafty
College
JUNE
Austin Powers Doll, Barbie Legs as Amputee Fingers, Jill Barad
LA Times Interview
The Tarzan and Butterfly-Art Barbie Controversies
The Year 2000 DAG Convention is Announced
MAY
Theriault Duet Auction
Loss of ODACA Artist Kathryn Williams Klunsman
Review of Anaheim Dollmaking Show
