IN STUDIO

GINA:
Are you searching for that rare Batman Number 3, or maybe a Seaver to complete your amazing Met's baseball card collection?

CHRIS:
Well, if you're searching for these an other illusive treasures, then maybe it's time you logged on and let your mouse do the legwork.

SHOTS OF ANIMATE FIGURES AND REAL FIGURES, CU SHOT OF LARRY SHAPIRO, SHOTS OF VARIOUS COLLECTABLE ITEMS, POSTCARDS, COMIC BOOKS, ETC.

NARRATOR:
Meet Larry Shapiro, AKA The Collective Detective. His mission, to locate hard to find items for both professional and amateur collectors of just about any kind of pop culture memorabilia.

LARRY SHAPIRO:
We are a locator service. We put buyers and sellers together. We want to locate the items, identify them, tell you how to get them. If you see an item that you're interested in you can click on it, it'll bring up a little mini web page for the supplier, whether he's a retailer or private collector, and you can send him an E mail. You can visit his website and make your own transaction.

SHOTS FROM WEB PAGE

NARRATOR:
The website uses familiar catch phrases from some of our favorite classic TV cops and PI's. (CLOSE UP LARRY, SHOTS OF WEB PAGE) And though Larry charges up to X dollars for his on line middle man services, he feels that the time he saves customers is well worth it.

CU SHOT OF LARRY

LARRY SHAPIRO:
People are spending a lot of time and money, running around looking for things and maybe finding and maybe not finding (PAN BATMAN MEMORABILIA, BASEBALL CARS, MAGAZINES, COMIC BOOKS) and dealers especially expressed a need that sometimes it just wasn't worth spending half a day looking for a 20 dollar item for a customer.

PAN COMICS, FIGURINES

NARRATOR:
Larry has discovered that the people using the Collective Detective website service are as varied as the memorabilia they collect.

CU OF LARRY

LARRY SHAPIRO:
We've had a lot of different kinds of people express interest. Some very (SHOTS OF PRE-ANIMATION DRAWINGS, WEB PAGE, COMICS) artistically oriented people that are interested in the pure beauty of the art. Many people that are strictly collectors, they say it's a commodity, you know if I can do better with (CU LARRY) Captain Marvel than with porkbellies, then I want Captain Marvel.

NARRATOR:
And for this former IBM engineer, (PAN WEB PAGE) learning the ins-and-outs of being a web master has been both rewarding and challenging.

LARRY SHAPIRO:
Well, I've always felt the world of computers seemed to evolve faster than anything else, and (CU LARRY) it seems like it was crawling compared to what's going on the Internet and if you've been involved for a year and a half, you're a veteran. You're a battlescarred pioneer.

JUMP QUICKLY FROM ITEMS TO WEBSITE ITEMS

NARRATOR:
So, no matter what you're looking for, check in with the Collective Detective and let this seasoned veteran of the web help you out.

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