I was contacted via E-mail by a writer for Net Guide Magazine, which is in circulation throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was doing an article on collectors and their successful web sites. I sent him some info about my site and here's what appeared in the September 1999 edition of the Australian Net Guide. Also, Nigel Horrocks Discovers an increasing number of collectors are using the Net as the medium to grow their stockpile of treasures. Many are using auction sites as places to trade for the items they are looking for, while some have dedicated Web sites to the cause.
People seem to be collecting everything from travel sickness bags to used lottery tickets.
There is a fine line between collectors and hoarders. Local collector Scott Wegener obviously doesn't like to throw anything away, even if it is definitely worthless. He collects used lottery-type tickets. He gives himself respectability by calling himself a 'lotologist'. Scott says until he put up his site, he didn't know of anyone else who collected discarded tickets a began to think that he was in fact as crazy as people said.