FINALLY, someone who gets it! Thanks Craig, that's it exactly... The sales price of the poster is the $ amount when the auctioneer says "SOLD". Everything added after that is a fee, tax, or shipping charge.
As you said, it breaks down into collectors and dealers. Dealers need to roll all of those extra expenses into the total price paid, however, that is NOT the price that the poster SOLD for. If I paid 10K for a poster, 2k for BP, 825. for tax, and 100. for shipping, My total paid is $12,925, but the "sale price" of the poster is still 10K. Everything else is fees, taxes and other charges. Best wishes, M ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:03:14 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] O.k....Where do you stand? > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > > At 04:51 AM 7/13/2008, Roland Lataille wrote: >>I just won a one sheet Cinerama roadshow Circus World poster from >>Heritage for $60 plus $11.70 for BP. I would say I paid $71.70 for >>it. I think I got a pretty good deal as I was willing to pay a lot >>more for it. You don't see this Cinerama roadshow poster on Ebay very often. > > > Seems to me there's a difference between the "sales price" (i.e. what the > poster sold for) and the cost of acquiring it. If I buy a poster -- > or anything > -- from someone in person (or from someone from whom I can pick it up) > there is no shipping fee. That doesn't mean the item sold for less. It > means there were no added fees. > > While a Buyer's Premium is something I would have to pay if I bought a > poster through an auction house, it is a fee that I need to be willing to pay > but isn't truly part of the poster's "price", no more than sales tax, or money > later spent to fix up, linenback, or frame a poster. Those may be part of > what I need or want to spend on the poster, but they aren't part of the price. > > Frankly, saying it is sounds more like dealers trying to find ways to push up > the price of a poster. "It sold for $1000 plus a 20% BP, so the real price is > $1200. Next time, someone should pay $1150 plus a BP of 15% so the > value will be $1440." It's a fee on a fee on a fee that people are using to > artificially inflate the value. > > It is, I'll concede, more accurate to say the *cost* of the poster was the > auction price plus all other expenses incurred. But that doesn't make it the > value of the poster. > > Craig. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Craig Miller Wolfmill Entertainment [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. _________________________________________________________________ The i’m Talkaton. Can 30-days of conversation change the world? http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_ChangeWorld Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
