Post #67190 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Wed, Dec 31, 2003 5:05 PM

I do most of my collecting on E-bay. I must have over 50 regular searches containing hundreds of keywords that I submit every few days automatically. I then weed through the results looking for those hidden Polynesian Pop postcards that don't have the word "Tiki" anywhere in the title or description, (although I look at the "Tiki" postcards too, just in case I find something that I can't live without - but I hate paying the high prices). The weeding-through process goes by pretty fast nowadays because I've seen 80% of the items before. The new ones kinda jump out at you.

I also look for mis-spellings of all the main tiki restaurants. That way I can add a few of those "Mia Kai" Mystery Girl postcards to my collection for $2.00 to do trades with later.

Finding the hidden gems on E-bay has become just as much fun for me as finding them in antique malls and postcard shows. It's just taken me about a year to develop my arsenal of search words. I add new ones every week. I have had pretty good luck at swapmeets as well. I just bought a whole stack of San Diego's Hanalei Island Room jumbo postcards at last month's Long Beach Swapmeet.

If you want the tricks of finding postcards at the postcard shows, you should get Puamana's advice, as well as TikiHula's. They both seem to come home with a small stack of tiki postcards each time they visit a show.

Sabu