Glenn,
You did indeed! There are 19 cool signed one-sheets
up for bid RIGHT NOW in
our new auctions on our site (they are especially
cool if you have always
wanted a recent one-sheet signed by several cast
members, and *DON'T* want
the fakes regularly offered on eBay).
The posters are:
e001 BLADES OF GLORY autographed lobby movie display
'07 signed by Will
Ferrell and Jon Heder
e002 GRINDHOUSE signed adv1sh '07 by Dawson, Rose
McGowan, Rodriguez,
Russell, Rodriguez, Tarantino!
e003 CASINO ROYALE autographed one-sheet '06 signed
by Daniel Craig, Eva
Green, Campbell, Mikkelsen
e004 NACHO LIBRE autographed special 13x20 '06
signed by Jack Black,
Jiminez, Hess, de la Reguera
e005 BLACK SNAKE MOAN autographed 1sh '07 Signed by
Samuel L. Jackson,
Brewer, Singleton, Allain
e006 WILD HOGS autographed DS advance 1sh '07 signed
by W. Macy, Becker,
Tomei, Travolta, Lawrence
e007 MAID IN MANHATTAN autographed 1sh '02 signed by
Tyler Posey, Hoskins,
Richardson, Wang, Tucci
e008 BLACK HAWK DOWN signed 1sh '01 Scott, Hartnett,
Bana, Sizemore, Isaacs,
Bruckheimer, Fichtner
e009 BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA autographed 1sh '07 Signed
by AnnaSophia Robb,
Josh Hutcherson, Paterson
e010 COLLATERAL autographed one-sheet movie poster
'04 signed by Jamie Foxx
and Jada Pinkett Smith
e011 HOST autographed one-sheet movie poster '06 by
Korean director Joon-ho
Bong!
e012 INTO THE BLUE autographed one-sheet '05 signed
by Jessica Alba, Scott
Caan, and Ashley Scott
e013 JUST LIKE HEAVEN autographed special poster '05
signed by Reese
Witherspoon, Mark Waters, Heder
e014 MARIE ANTOINETTE autographed one-sheet '06
signed by Kirsten Dunst,
Sofia Coppola, Judy Davis
e015 MATCH POINT autographed 1sh '05 signed by
Scarlett Johansson, Matthew
Goode, Emily Mortimer
e016 PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS autographed one-sheet
movie poster '06 signed by
Will Smith!
e017 RED EYE autographed special 11x17 '05 signed by
Rachel McAdams, Cillian
Murphy, and Wes Craven
e018 SHOOTER autographed advance 1sh '07 signed by
Mark Wahlberg, Kate Mara,
Michael Pena, Fuqua
e019 STUART LITTLE 2 autographed one-sheet movie
poster '02 signed by Rob
Minkoff, Jonathan Lipnicki
Best of all, this is a 100% charity auction (all
proceeds go to the charity,
with no commissions, and no U.S. shipping at all (I
charge non-U.S.
residents the difference between the U.S. cost and
actual cost to send to
them), and I give *EVERYONE* who buys one or more
posters all 25 of my
in-print books as a free bonus, postage paid in the
U.S.! And of course,
just as always there are no insane "buyers
premiums". 100% of the money
raised goes towards paying some of Baby Gavin's
medical expenses (the below
explains this charity).
What was the origin of the special auction? Gavin
Ryne Winslow was born on
February 23, 2006, with major medical problems. His
kidneys did not function
properly, and he needed a kidney transplant to
survive. Because he was not
covered by insurance, many of his fellow residents
of Wisconsin started
fundraising efforts to pay for his very expensive
medical needs. One of
these fine people was Gino Salomone, the
entertainment reporter for WISN-TV
ABC in Milwaukee, WI.
Gino had the excellent idea of using his position to
obtain signed posters
for current movies from movie studios, and then
auctioning the posters, with
the proceeds going to the fund to pay for Gavin's
medical expenses. He
contacted various movie studios, and once he
explained the purpose of his
request, they were happy to provide him with posters
from many different
movies, and they had the stars (and sometimes the
director or producers)
personally sign the posters. *His efforts resulted
in 19 signed posters,
most of which are signed by more than one celebrity
connected with the movie
* (they were signed at press junkets held to promote
the movies, where the
various stars and/or directors or producers were
appearing in person.
Once he had the posters assembled from the various
studios, Gino turned to
Bruce Hershenson, whom he had purchased posters from
as a collector, and
asked Bruce if he would auction the posters on eBay
as part of his regular
auctions, giving all the proceeds to maybe Gavin's
medical fund. Bruce was
happy to comply, but he soon discovered that eBay
had many restrictions on
charity auctions, as well as restrictions on selling
autographed material,
and he sadly soon came to the conclusion that there
was virtually no way to
run this auction on eBay.
But a couple of months later, Bruce decided to take
his auctions off of
eBay, and he asked Gino if it would make sense to
make his first non-eBay
auctions be the 19 autographed posters that Gino had
obtained. Gino agreed,
and that is the genesis of this auction. In order to
raise as much money for
this worthy charity as possible, Bruce is not taking
any commission of any
kind, giving a free set of his 25 books to every
buyer in this auction, and
not charging *ANY* shipping to any U.S. buyer
(neither on the posters
themselves or on the set of books)!
Note that, although there was a delay in starting
this auction, baby Gavin
has already received his life saving kidney
transplant on January 3, 2008
from the dedicated team at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. But his
medical needs are far from over, and we hope
everyone participating in this
auction will bid generously on these 19 posters, so
that his family will
receive some much-needed aid as a result.
*For more information on baby Gavin and his family,
go to
http://www.savebabygavin.com/, which gives a history
of what has happened to
him to this point, and his family's present-day
situation. We at
eMoviePoster.com give our greatest thanks to Gino
Salomone for selflessly
obtaining these posters for this auction.
*I certainly hope some other MoPo members besides
Glenn will place bids in
this auction! In addition to getting a cool poster
and 25 books postpaid (in
the U.S.) you get to see how my new time extended
auctions work, and you can
get ready for the "real thing" when I add around
700-1,000 folded one-sheets
on my new site, just as these are closing, next
Tuesday, April 17th.*
Have you not yet registered to bid there? Go to
http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Registration.taf
and get registered and
place a bid or two!
Bruce
*
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Glenn Taranto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did I just become the first person to bid on
Bruce's own internet
> auctions?
>
> There are 19 different autographed one sheets
being offered right now...
