diff --git a/app/controllers/items_controller.rb b/app/controllers/items_controller.rb
index ee8edc94..2c49569d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/items_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/items_controller.rb
@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
         end
       end
     elsif params.has_key?(:ids) && params[:ids].is_a?(Array)
-      @items = Item.build_proxies(params[:ids])
+      @items = Item.find(params[:ids])
       assign_closeted!
-      @items.prepare_method(:as_json)
       respond_to do |format|
         format.json { render json: @items }
       end
diff --git a/app/models/item/update_task.rb b/app/models/item/update_task.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index ce986760..00000000
--- a/app/models/item/update_task.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-class Item
-  class UpdateTask
-    extend FragmentExpiration
-
-    TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS = 10
-
-    @queue = :item_update
-
-    def self.perform(id)
-      Timeout::timeout(TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS) do
-        item = Item.find(id)
-        expire_cache_for(item)
-      end
-    end
-    
-    private
-
-    def self.expire_cache_for(item)
-      expire_key_in_all_locales("items/#{item.id}#as_json")
-    end
-  end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/models/item_observer.rb b/app/models/item_observer.rb
index c9e421db..a3ac5eb5 100644
--- a/app/models/item_observer.rb
+++ b/app/models/item_observer.rb
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@ class ItemObserver < ActionController::Caching::Sweeper
   def after_create(item)
     Resque.enqueue(Item::CreateTask, item.id)
   end
-  
-  def after_update(item)
-    # CONSIDER: can pass item.changes.keys in to choose which caches to expire
-    Resque.enqueue(Item::UpdateTask, item.id)
-  end
 
   def after_destroy(item)
     Resque.enqueue(Item::DestroyTask, item.id)