Once again, Movieposterbid is another great venue for some real bargains
and fun titles. Just as with Bruce's and Heritage's Sunday auction, I have so
many framing customers that I have turned onto those sites and they routinely
buy from these auction venues. I get calls everyday from a customer ordering
frames for some posters they got for "cheap" from one of those venues. Just for
decoration or just for fun, I think cheap posters rule for everyone whether new
collector or us old hard core crazies!
We all know that when there is a movie poster framed on the wall,
everybody that comes into your house makes a comment like "Wow". I've gotten so
many friends into movie posters just because they saw them on my wall or here
at my offices. I've got a customer that buys movie posters from the below "B"
titles from 50's movies about cars, racing, etc. He hangs them in his garage as
he restores old cars. He started doing it when he was in my shop framing
something else and saw a customer"s posters and thought they were cool. So, he
started looking for posters on Ebay, Movieposterbid, Bruce's and Heritage's
sites. That was about 3 years ago and the guy's still looking. I don't think
he's paid over $20 for any poster and he couldn't be more thrilled to call
himself a collector.
To me, that's what it's all about. So, keep up the good work guys!!
Sue
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:58:09 -0800From: sa...@comic-art.comsubject: Re:
[MOPO] those testimonials for tlocepostersTo: mop...@sol03.american.edubruce is
totally correct.while neither of us like selling 99 cent items, we do sell lots
of them to people who don't buy Godzilla one sheetsOne new customer recently
wrote me how happy he was to find MoviePosterBid and how lucky he felt he was
to be able to buy lots of posters without spending lots of money and while many
seasoned collectors like to laugh at that, nearly every one of you was there at
some point in your past because most collectors do start at the bottomit's like
drugs.. you start with grass (cheap $1 posters) and then you finish with heroin
($10,000 Forbidden Planet posters)it's just that most of you are hooked on the
expensive dopeRichAt 08:38 PM 2/5/2009, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
I would have 10,000 free lunches coming! I pretty much DO come close to this,
taking 75% on under $8 items. But I DO lose money on sub-$20 items, so I have
to do this to discourage them. The good news is that a lot of the sub $10 items
I auctioned last year were old consignments, and while I still have thousands
of them left, I am coming near the end of them, and I HAVE been getting much
more selective in the new consignments I take. As to Sean's "My hat is really
off to him and his staff for all the hard work they do to ensure prices remain
so affordable for so many", I completely agree. Many MoPo'ers have been in this
a long time, and turn up their nose at "junk", but there really ARE a lot of
new collectors who love their $5 and $10 posters almost as much as you love
your $100 and $1,000 ones, and I provide an affordable way for them to keep
collecting. Of course, there are also lots more of those types of collectors,
which is why I have sold to 31,000 people, whereas the "hardcore" part of the
hobby likely only numbers 5,000 or so. BruceOn Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:47 PM,
Roger Kim <roger...@iname.com> wrote:
I think Bruce should charge 100% commission for any poster that sell for $9 or
less, since that is his estimated cost of selling a poster. Anyone who consigns
a poster that sells for less than $3 should be required to buy him lunch.
I think I owe him a free lunch.
-rk
On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Sean Linkenback wrote:
Very interesting.
And it definitely fits the notion that there are tons of bargains to be had
even at Bruce's site.
I think it's amazing that despite Bruce's begging for people to stop sending
him very inexpensive items (and having a consignment rate to actively
discourage it) still a full 30% of what he sold in 2008 was for under $10.
Based on the numbers given, I wouldn't be surprised to see that 50% of all his
items actually sold for less than $20.
He's already told us that he loses money (or at best breaks even) on sub-$20
items, and some quick math from the numbers in his ad show that for taking up
30% of the work, those less than $10 posters only bring in 3.6% of his revenues.
My hat is really off to him and his staff for all the hard work they do to
ensure prices remain so affordable for so many.
From: MoPo List [ mailto:mop...@sol03.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:00 AM
To: mop...@sol03.american.edu
Subject: Re: [MOPO] those testimonials for tloceposters
It seems that my latest Movie Collector's ad fits in this discussion. Note that
the ad was created before the first MoPo Loce/Professor Powers post appeared!
See the ad at https://www.emovieposter.com/unused/20090130_februarymcw_ad.jpg
Bruce
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