Fall 2024 TCA e*Train

e*Train Issue: Sep 2024 | Posted in: Past e*Train Issues

As the leaves begin to fall and the weather begins to change, the TCA is ready to travel into the Fall and all that it has to bring. Many of us are lifelong collectors, while others are just getting started. Celebrate our differences and get to know each other. You’ll be surprised!

_{^{EDITOR’S NOTE:}} Make sure to check out Clem’s York Primer for Fall 2024 before the York Meet. You don’t want to miss all that this comprehensive guide has to offer to members. Whether it’s your first time visiting York, or your latest of many bi-annual trips to the meet, Clem’s Primer has something for you!

Additionally, please note that the formatting of this edition of TCA e*Train contains updates to the style and formatting previously used by e*Train. I have made these changes to make e*Train more visually appealing, streamlined, and cohesive.

I welcome any feedback and would love to hear from you on ways we can make e*Train even better moving forward!

Feel free to reach out via email at [email protected] with any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions.

(Updated 10/14/2024) Please see the following late breaking Update From The Toy Train Paper Memorabilia Group.

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That’s all for now, folks!

Thank you for taking a look at the Fall 2024 edition of TCA e*Train!

We hope you enjoyed the ride and found plenty of valuable information here on the rails with us. We’ll be back soon with more great content, so stay tuned and join us next time.

Until then, thanks for riding with us and All Aboard!

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Ever Upward,

Michael S. Oher TCA #18-73531

Editor, TCA e*Train

Helping TCA with your ebay purchases when you use PayPal

If you’re an ebay user and have a PayPal account you use to make payments, you can designate a donation for TCA when you’re checking out — any amount, small or large.
If you’re a regular seller on ebay, you can pre-designate a percentage of your sales to be donated automatically in your name to TCA as long as the purchaser pays with their PayPal account.

In both cases, you will receive a donation receipt from the PayPal Giving Fund, and enjoy applicable tax advantages.

How to do it:

Click on the image above, or use this link. This will take you to ebay, where you will see the following page (log in to ebay if you are not already):

This offers TCA as an option. Click on the “Add to My Charities” button where indicated with the red arrow. Thereafter, when you make a purchase, at checkout you will be offered the option to make a donation to TCA in any amount of your choosing. Small amounts add up, larger ones are great! It’s always up to you!

The option will appear at the lower part of your checkout page, something like this:

If you’re a regular seller on ebay, you can allocate a portion of your sales proceeds to be donated to TCA. Look at the green arrow marked “Optional” above to see how to do it. Details on how ebay calculates the donation may be read here. This is a wonderful way to share the financial benefits of your hobby with the organization that promotes it!

An added benefit to TCA is that these donations are not subject to normal processing fees, so that makes your donation work harder!

* Note. TCA is not a party to any of your eBay transactions, and does not endorse any products or vendors. PayPal issues the receipts to you for your donation, not TCA.

Shop Amazon and Help TCA

TCA members who shop at Amazon.com can have each of their normal purchases generate a modest payment to TCA! And it won’t cost you anything!

The Train Collectors Association is now a participant with AmazonSmile, which is a special website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com.

The difference is that when customers shop at AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), the AmazonSmile Foundation donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers.

The process is simple. Just search for and select Train Collectors Association when you sign up and shop at smile.amazon.com.

You use your regular Amazon.com username and password, but when you log in to smile.amazon.com, you’ll see that you are supporting TCA with your purchases:

Note that if you just log in to the regular amazon.com, this benefit does not operate.

There are no costs to either you or TCA, but TCA benefits!

This is a great way for TCA to earn extra cash to offset costs, so sign up today to help support TCA.

* Note: TCA is not a party to any of your Amazon transactions, and does not endorse any products or vendors.

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