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From: MoPo Bid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:49 pm
Subject: [MOPO] buying outside the box
> OK, with the absurd prices paid last night for quite a large number
> of recent-vintage posters, some only a few years old, I have to ask
> this:
> Don't you people know about internet search engines?
>
> Listen, it's the latest thing. Really. You just go to yahoo or
> google or ask jeeves or a dozen other places and in the search
> window you type in the title of the film in quotation marks, like
> this:
> "Saturday Night Fever"
>
> ... but wait! Before you hit the search button, add one or two
> words to help find that poster. Like this:
>
> "Saturday Night Fever" poster buy for sale
>
> ... NOW hit the SEARCH button. You will be amazed at all the
> listings that are found. Yes, some will be out of date. Some will
> actually be come-ons for some product having nothing to do with the
> film or the poster (don't ask me how this happens...), but a lot of
> them will actually be links to real-live movie poster dealers with
> real live web sites who have the poster you are looking to buy for
> sale and -- get this -- there will be a retail price posted on it.
> And here's the amazing part -- you can actually BUY the poster you
> want from these places. What's more, many of these websites are run
> by honest, highly-reliable, reputable dealers who have been around
> for years... decades, even!
>
> Honestly. It's true. The medical facts of the matter are this: You
> actually do not have to keep upping your bid at one of these "major
> event" auctions and pay 3 or 4 times what other people will sell
> you the same poster for. You can just stop bidding and go buy it
> for less from one of these established retail dealers! I know, hard
> to believe, huh?
>
> I mean, bidding on auctions is great when the price stays in the
> bargain range... maybe even low retail. But once it crosses over
> the high-retail mark and keeps climbing, what is the point of
> buying it at auction -- unless it truly is a hard-to-find item that
> isn't generally available on retail web sites?
>
> This Believe-It-Or-Not factoid brought to you as a public service
> by www.MoviePosterBid.com
>
> As if you think it's strange that an auction site would be publicly
> advocating responsible, honest and informed bidding and buying,
> then you miss the whole point behind MoviePosterBid.
>
> -- JR
>
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