Hey, if the dealers are happy with the sales they brought in this
year and if Diane and Morrie are happy with the auction results
and Sean is happy with the elevators who am I to complain? For the
record I had a good time at the convention and if fact recommended
it to some clients. I just detest this hotel and will rectify that
next year by staying elsewhere, something with a spa as you suggested.
FRANC
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On Behalf Of lobby card invasion
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:06 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
"I stand by my statement"
AND SO DO I. Stand by MY statement, that is
I can tell you that in my room the A/C worked just fine. The room
did not smell. Front Desk was very cordial and helpful in
numerous and various requests. The shape of the elevators is of
absolutely of no consequence to most people. We came to a movie
memorabelia concention, not a spa.
Look, this back and forth can go on forever, with arguments and
couner-arguments in both direction. You had a lousy time, I had a
good time. Are there better hotels? Of course. Will rooms,
dealer tables, food ets cost much more in a fancier place? Of
course. So let the Cinevent organizers do their job. They've
been successful at it for 40 years.
Zeev
----- Original Message -----From: <mailto:fdav...@verizon.net>Franc
To: <mailto:lobb...@rogers.com>'lobby card invasion' ;
<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:19 PM
Subject: RE: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
I stand by my statement and I know for a fact that many dealers
feel the same, especially since you can find luxury hotels in
Columbus at that time of the year for the price that is charged at
this Ramada dump. FRANC
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Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:04 PM
To: FRANC MARTARELLA;
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
Frank, I think you're exaggerating just a little bit.
I attended this year's Cinevent, and have been going to this show,
at the same hotel, for almost 20 years. While this hotel may have
its flaws(e.g. poor A/C in some common areas), calling it
"disgusting" is grossly unfair and totally inaccurate.
I have no shares in this hotel, and no personal interest in it, I
just don't want people who never attended the show, and who might
be contemplating on doing so in the future, be wrongly influenced
by your highly subjective bad experience.
No printing capacity in the "business center" (exactly 2 computer
monitors) may not be as important to most guests as it is for you. Sorry.
Zeev
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From: <mailto:fdav...@verizon.net>FRANC MARTARELLA
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Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
I think Collectible Shows and on-site auctions can still have the
edge. I just got back from Cinevent and it's great to connect with
dealers and buyers I haven't seen all year and nothing, not even a
super-image zoom, can replace holding a poster or lobby cards in
your hands to see the artwork, color, texture etc. Besides which
it's tedious to go through all the Heritage or Bruce Hershenson
listings to check condition and I lose interest one quarter of the
way through.
That said, I found this year's Cinevent to be a someone subdued
affair. Unfortunately the economy has taken its toll on the art of
collecting movie ephemera. Most of the dealers were complaining
that sales were slow and I don't think Morrie going to count this
one as his most financially successful auction either.
Part of the problem for me is that disgusting hotel the Cinevent
insist on using. Their business center had no capacity to print
anything, given that their printers were all down and had been
apparently for some time. The rooms either smell of disinfectant
or stale cigarettes. The air- conditioner in my room was dead and
had to be changed. The restaurant doesn't even look clean and
wake-up calls were ignored by the front desk. The auction room
was decided hot, so much so I couldn't sit in that room for more
than an hour at a time and Morrie seemed to be experiencing
technical problems throughout. I've made a decision to stay
elsewhere ...anywhere else... next year. I only wish the Cinevent
management would wise up and follow suit. FRANC
From: Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 10:41 AM
I love Morrie, and he is absolutely one of the pioneers of this
hobby! Without people like Morrie and Richard Allen, who started
the hobby and spent massive effort on making the world aware of
it, there likely wouldn't be a hobby today!
With that being said, I do think that "live auctions" are a dying
breed, and large collectible shows have a similar problem. Why
should people spend lots and lots of money on travel and hotels
when they could spend that same money on buying posters? In the
"old days", the advantage was that you could see the items "up
close and personal", and that was not possible through the mail,
without spending $50,000 or so on a deluxe color catalog as I did,
and even then you didn't get a really good idea of what the
condition was, just what the image looked like.
But now, with the Internet, you CAN provide super-sized images
that show every flaw in excrutiating detail (of course some
auctions choose not to do so, with fuzzy scans, but that is their
choice), so I really think that one giant advantage live auctions had is gone.
I hope Morrie can continue to put on his auctions (to whatever
extent he can), and that the hobby will support him, for as you
rightly point out, Cinevent might not survive either, and it is
wonderful that once a year there is a place in the middle of the
country where many of the members of the hobby gather (I have
attended many times, and would have been there this time, except
for fate conspiring against me; Memorial Day falls super-early
this year, and it started on the last day of my kid's school, and
my 14 year old had perfect attendence all four years of middle
school and he wasn't about to miss the very last day, and besides,
he got straight As all year and got an award that last day, so I
had to choose being at that over being at the auction, and it was
no choice at all).
Bruce
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Douglas Ball
<<http://us.mc841.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=deb...@columbus.rr.com>
deb...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
Michael,
Speaking from what I have seen... Morrie was extremely short of
help this year. I believe this is also the first year as long as I
have attended that Marty Davis wasn't involved.
Anyway, Morrie tried some new things this year, some worked well,
but many did not...I believe for next year there will changes...for the best!
As for the catalogues, this was the first time I received a
catalog for the Columbus auction, I've only receive flyers. If you
were at the auction you could get a catalog free of charge.
They are not the quality of Heritages auctions. Heritage has the
resources and personal to put together their beautiful catalogs,
pictures, and descriptions...plus from what I understand, they
print their own. Morrie did this on his own, with a lot of help
from his family...whom I respect.
If you viewed the online catalog, you would have received a better
description and picture than the catalog, plus if you really
wanted to bid, many options to do so...including coming to
Cinevent to be a part of the poster community as those who did.
There was a time that Morrie's auction was one of the biggest and
best. A lot of high end poster were there, if you were after them.
Heritage and of course Bruce went to Morrie auctions, learned
from them, and did their own. We need Morrie auctions, Cinevent
(to survive) needs it, and we collectors and dealers need it. To
bash it without giving Morrie some constructive
opinions/criticisms will only help hurt our future of this
business including the live auctions that are doing well at this time.
Doug Ball
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Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
1. i gave up looking at the site because it took forever to load
into my computer. AND I HAVE A FAST COMPUTER.
2. more importantly, i wrote 2 emails to Hollywood Poster asking
why i could not see poster descriptions. Neither were
answered. How can you bid without a description??? Did their
on-line sire contain descriptions? Were you able to really enhance an image?
>>>>>so, although a quick search of the site found 2 posters i
might have bid on.......i never went back.
SO WHY DO AUCTION HOUSES LIKE HERITAGE SEND OUT
FREE CATALOGUES? ANSWER: they are smart! !!!
For example, in the last Signature Auction of Heritage, i made a
quick search on their internet site. Although, i saw beautiful
posters, i believe only one interested me at the time. Yet, after
i received their catalogue, and had time to study it, i tracked
about 12+ posters-----------------------and bought 6 INCLUDING the
one sheet and insert of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
clearly, i was super-pleased with the items i won, and Signature
made more money because of my bidding. SO------THE AUCTION HOUSES
THAT ARE SMART SEND OUT CATALOGUES TO SERIOUS BIDDERS BECAUSE THEY
KNOW YOU GOTTA SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.
>>>>>if the receiver of a catalogue increases a lot sold by $100,
then the auction house made money to cover the catalogue and
shipping cost. surely, a recipient should be removed from the
free auction catalogue courtesy if they never bid.
and, whenever i write to Heritage, i always get a fast
answer. for example, i asked a question about the one sheet of
Dorian Gray, and received a response from bruce c. within 2 hours
of my question. as i said, i won that item!
michael
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