I don't know about this "breaking the inventory into lots" idea. Recently, Collector's Book Store sold all THEIR posters this way at Profiles in History, and it seems most of the posters and lobby cards were sold to dealers, primarily dealers who are now either directly individually the items or re-consigning the items to me!
So Collector's Book Store paid a healthy fee to Profiles in History so that the posters and lobby cards could be re-auctioned individually, and even after the costs of doing so the buyers expect to make a good profit on those items! Instead of that, Collector's Book Store could have simply consigned the items to me, and cut out TWO middle men, thus surely making a lot more money. In this case, I would think the biggest problem is that the posters are in the Netherlands, and the few dealers capable of selling such large quantities directly are in the U.S., and I would think the cost of getting the items to the U.S. might well be prohibitive. Bruce On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Franc <fdav...@verizon.net> wrote: > Have you considered giving the inventory to a responsible auction house > that has a base in Europe such as Christie's, Sotheby's or Bonhams? You can > ask for suggestions about breaking the inventory into lots. If you're > offerring an auction house a huge lot such as this, you can also negotiate > photo fees and "in" fees and try to get them to waive these since they can > eat up your profits. They won't negotitate commissions though. You might > then be able to split off the domain name and the on-line business and sell > that separately on Ebay or elsewhere. > > Contact dealers as well and request offers before you make a final decision > about how to sell this off. > > FRANC > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* MoPo List [mailto:mop...@sol03.american.edu] *On Behalf Of * > MotionPictureArt.com > *Sent:* Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:56 AM > *To:* mop...@sol03.american.edu > *Subject:* [MOPO] Selling website and inventory > > Hi Folks, > We need some good advice on the following problem. > My wife and I are thinking about having more kids and I want to pursue a > new career. > Since we need time and money to realize this we are thinking about selling > our online business including it's inventory, but don't know how to do this. > We have a pretty large inventory of which only a small part is on our > website. It consists not only of thousands of posters and lobby cards, but > also thousands of press kits, promo items, vinyl banners, 8x10 photos, > standees, books/comics, toys and much more. > We are based in the Netherlands (Europe) and there are not many dealers > over here so we are looking for a foreign buyer. Shipping will have to be by > land or sea as air will probably be too expensive. > The problem is, how do we go about this? Sell on Ebay? Post adds on forums? > Contact dealers all over the world? > Thanks in advance, > Ron and Alexandra > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
