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My interest is in the ladies who modeled in catalogues back then, and I'm finding the occasional model who I recognize. It's so nice to be able to put a name to their pictures.

Seriously.....no really, there's an excellent forum that's been around for ages called the Vintage Erotica Forum. It's inhabited by mature gents with an interest in the model/actresses and their careers. It's not at all creepy or trashy. Many of the ladies have their own threads, much like here, and there's even a section for ladies who only modeled. This thread centers around the ladies who mostly appeared in the mail order catalogues from the golden age of print. For many of us mature gents, these catalogues where what piqued our interest in the models....and not in any prurient way.😉

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I've had decent success with asking the seller to forward a short message to the buyer who purchased a magazine I was interested in. I let them know I'm a fan of the old fashions and include a link to my blog. Ebait won't forward emails but it seems to have no problem with other links. The buyer of these books might be interested in knowing about us.

I buy vintage bridal magazines from Ebait and usually pay around 20 bucks US. Over the past couple of years prices are getting into 3 figures although they don't sell. Ebait eliminated listing fees a few years ago allowing short-sighted greedy so-n-so's to start fishing for outrageous prices. I've bought a few mags for around 20 bucks that someone has been asking say, 150 for, for a year or more. I like to send them a copy of the auction I just bought. It's another example of 'enshitification' that we're increasingly seeing. People and platforms get greedy which makes them stupid.

Something we might consider is making a Discord server as a backup or rallying point just in case. We made one for a graphics forum I'm on and sure enough, a year later the site was shut down. The Discord server became or hub or 'fire point' and the core membership kept in touch via it.

I've used https://new.imagehostx.com/upload.php for years and it's been rock solid and free of sleazeware, popups, popunders, redirects and so on.

No. The person I chatted with said only that it was something they might consider in the future. I wonder how this site pays it's bills. I don't see any advertising, although I do have every ad blocker known to humankind installed. I even have anti-ad blocker blockers.

I'm aware of that. I know of plenty of sites that, as you described, are full of 404 images. I mentioned to the mods here that they might want to offer paid memberships to help out with server costs. It would be a kind of patron program. My vintage car forum does that to defray costs. I'd gladly pay a yearly fee.

A practice that's common in graphics forums is to use image hosting services. You only see the thumbnail in the forum and the full size image loads when you select the thumb. It saves a TON of server space and bandwidth.

This model (the car, not the lady) was referred to as the 'Lusso' or luxury touring version. I knew a gent in Halifax in the 70's who had one and got a drive in it. Back then they where affordable. Nowadays they fetch tens of millions.

Thanks Danny-19. 👍

From my hard drive choking collection of bridal magazine scans. Modern Bride June-July 1988.

Sophie Matheisen (Modern Bride 1997)