For all of this talk about how horrible eBay is, and how much better consigning is, I will remind people that I will accept a limited number of consignments for set sale and/or auction. My auctions have routinely kicked tail on lobby cards (anyone who's seen us at a show knows it's a big specialty of ours) - but our larger size paper is also (finally) setting records. In our July auction, I was worried about the Goldfinger 3-sheet, and the Invisible Man 1-sheet we had up for sale since Heritage had just sold the same items a week earlier. But my prices realized beat them by 30% and 20% respectively, plus we sold a Sabrina 1-sheet for more than 2x the best price Bruce has ever gotten.
Those were all my own items as I always put my money where my mouth is, but my consignment rate is a flat 15% of the selling price which pretty much cuts in half what any other dealer/auction house will charge. I will admit I'm probably not the right choice for lots of things (I've never done very well with foreign paper except Godzilla of course), but if you have quality science fiction or horror, or many other things, it would be downright silly not to talk to me. For example I recently sold a 1947 Dracula one sheet for a customer that netted him FIVE FIGURES HIGHER than the one recently at Profiles. The sky isn't falling everywhere. Sean www.PlatinumPosters.com <http://www.platinumposters.com/> _____ From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Franc Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 3:05 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] FS: MY EBAY ITEMS<><>ME VERSUS BRUCE Boy, I was thinking the same thing. And here's one more point to ponder. Ebay is going to take a 15% final value fee on Fixed Value listings and they already take a huge chunk out of auction listings. If you add on their listing fees and now the cost of shipping that the seller is being asked to absorb, Ebay is ultimately taking approximately 20% commision for simply allowing you to list in their market place.(I haven't crunched the numbers and percentages yet so this is approximate.) If you were to consign your items to Bruce or even an auction house, they would also take a similiar commision off your final sale but THEY'LL DO ALL THE WORK. They'll write the listing, photograph the item and do distribution and collections. Ebay doesn't even protect you against frauds or deadbeats. I'm considering a change. FRANC -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:30 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] FS: MY EBAY ITEMS<><>ME VERSUS BRUCE with all this recent talk about ebay squeezing small sellers like me, consider this: bruce gets top dollar.......... i was recently outbid on about 7 of bruce's items i really wanted that would have yielded half the final sales amount on ebay. so why do i even bother selling on ebay when i can consign to bruce???? bruce probably has a bigger following of serious collectors looking at his stuff for posters, than does ebay in their poster categories. when bruce was fighting with ebay 2 years ago, they probably thought he was bluffing when he told them that one day he would have his own site. they seem to be acting with impunity believing no one can leave. posters are a unique category....hence,,,,,,the ebay market for them could dry up. i have items on ebay that end tomorrow with no bids. many are items bruce has sold high, that i will barely get a few dollars for.......... maybe the time has come to ONLY consign to bruce................. in the meantime, here is my sales list of 70 posters, about 20 are top auction quality, that ends tomorrow.................. BARGAINS TO BE HAD!!!! link: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdialmbbmbb my ebay sale items ENDS IN JUST 2 DAYS:::: orig BIRDS half sheet orig Psycho insert SPIRIT OF CULVER BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, both half sheet styles PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, best one sheet re-issue BYE BYE BIRDIE MUSIC MAN CAN-CAN PLAY GIRL, orig KAY FRANCIS, OS FALLEN ANGEL OS SKI PATROL MAN WITHOUT A BODY RAY HARRYHAUSEN DEAD END, BOGART REISSUE OS LON CHANEY, SCREAM IN THE NIGHT ROAD TO UTOPIA MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD SING YOU SINNERS, CROSBY STORM OVER THE NILE LEO GORCEY, SO THIS IS NEW YORK BETTY GRABLE WABASH AVENUE BROADWAY RHYTHM, OS ORIG COUNTRY GIRL ORIG INSERT MY FAVORITE SPY, KAY KAISER ORIG OS SONG OF BERNADETTE &&&&&&&&&& & nbsp; &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& lots more thanks make offers!!!!! ebay account: dialmbbmbb <http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdialmbbmbb> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZdialmbbmbb _____ Get the MapQuest <http://mapquest.com/toolbar?ncid=mpqmap00050000000010> Toolbar. 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