well, smart married men keep an unknown bank account for these issues
that way it only cost $25
At 03:49 PM 7/13/2008, Dale Dilts wrote:
For the married folks out there. If you bid out a poster at 1000.00, but the
checking account is missing 1200, is your spouse going to think you paid
1000 or 1200 :)
Paid = cost to own, has nothing to do with being a dealer or a collector.
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From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirby
McDaniel
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 5:23 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] O.k....Where do you stand?
Funny, but when I pay for that poster it seems like that was the price to
me.
Lock, stock and barrel.
Kirby McDaniel
www.movieart.net
On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:40 PM, martin s wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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