Another "seller" who proves what Claude is saying: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/tealzoo
I hope they are not all sold before you guys get to see them! Bruce On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Brek Anderson <brekanders...@comcast.net>wrote: > FRANC is right on. As a seller on eBay for almost 10 years I have found no > certain format (auction, fixed price, or a combo) works all time. One way to > protect yourself is to start the item at a slightly lower price than you > think would be a low price with a buy it now price a bit higher than what > you feel would be a top price. This often kick starts the auction because > once there is a bid the buy it now goes away. Every now and then someone who > really wants the item that is a real collector that can afford the slightly > higher price will buy it now. This can work in the summer months if you are > concerned and don't want to pay the high reserve fees ebay charges. In the > fall the standard 99 cent start and let her rip with no reserve is probably > the best. If it is a rare classic title I don't think the format matters. > > > > This has worked for me most of the time, but if everybody did the exact > same it probably wouldn't work. As FRANC said you can't generalize. > > > > I would also still consider Rich, emovieposter, or Heritage as another > option. > > > > Brek > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Franc" <fdav...@verizon.net> > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 5:45:35 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: Re: [MOPO] ebay poster prices > > My advice is not to put stuff on Ebay in the summer months, since sales > really drop off in July and August. The auction format is not doing as well > as it did in the days when mmultiple bidders drove up the price of posters > and lobbies. The fixed price format is probably the way to go, unless you > want to take a huge risk. Classic titles do best. Mediocre stuff from the > 50s and 60s doesn't do too well but you can't generalize. FRANC > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] *On Behalf Of *joel > katte > *Sent:* Sunday, June 28, 2009 11:17 PM > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] ebay poster prices > > MOPOers, > > I have not sold many posters on ebay over the last year, but I am > considering doing so again soon. Therefore, I found these recent > discussions fascinating. > > Over the last ten years or so, any time I listed an ebay auction I started > it under $10 with NO RESERVE. I estimate that 95% of the time I was > satisfied with the prices they fetched. Am I hearing that if I was to do > this again in the next few months, that my satisfaction with the prices > realized would be drastically different than my past experiences? > > Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. My wife and I > walked into a pet store last night with the intention of just looking at > puppies with our daughtsers. Close to a thousand dollars later, we walked > out with a cocker spaniel and some fancy toys and food. I might need to > sell a few posters to cover the credit card damage. > > What posters or genres of posters are still steady? Anything really sought > after at this time? > > Thanks again. > > Sincerely, > > Joel Katte > ebay ID: joelkatte > > > --- On *Sun, 6/28/09, Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>*wrote: > > > From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com> > Subject: Re: [MOPO] ebay poster prices > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 2:07 PM > > Dave > > you have made a mistake in this post. Heritage does indeed sell items that > they own. They have a whole warehouse of stuff from which they sell and at > the Profiles auction they spent a stack of jack for posters to sell. In > addition they get contacted by people who wish to sell and not wait for > auction > > also, you didn't mention my own 99 cents auctions. > while I do sell on consignment from only a couple of sources, most of what > I sell I own. I spend my own money on collections with the intent of selling > virtually all of it in my auctions. so everyone who sells at auction is not > a consignment house > > Bruce also sells some stuff he owns, or he used to at least. However in > Bruce's case, his consignments are likely in the 90%+ area > > Sean also sells what he owns > > now to Claude's basic statement.. He is correct to a great degree that > there are many sellers who have "pie-in-the-sky" expectations. > > here are some of those > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Robin-Hood-1922-Original-Movie-Poster-Half-Sheet-RARE_W0QQitemZ320355952361QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a96b3e6e9&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/This-Gun-For-Hire-1942-Orig-Movie-Poster-Arg-1SH-RARE_W0QQitemZ320357604362QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a96cd1c0a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/FUNNY-FACE-MOVIE-POSTER-AUDREY-HEPBURN-FRENCH-BRINI-ART_W0QQitemZ130314624035QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item1e575b5c23&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 > > hilarious price here > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Bullitt-Original-Movie-Poster-Steve-McQueen_W0QQitemZ190317756833QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c4fd281a1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50 > > this one is hilarious > > http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-ELVIS-WILD-IN-THE-COUNTRY-MOVIE-LOBBY-POSTER_W0QQitemZ320389285856QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a98b087e0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A2%7C294%3A50 > > every one of these is priced with nothing to do with reality, especially > the last 2 > > then you have the guys like Stuey Holstein whose obvious intent is to find > people that he can literally sting at levels that generations from now will > still not get to his prices (he is mostly in comics). > > The obvious keyword here is "intent". While Brek is correct that people can > ask whatever they want, if you want to remain in business for a long time, > you have to have some contact with reality. I do not like the feeling that I > have cheated someone and that after they find out what has been done to > them, they want to shoot me.. There are people who revel in cheating others > and fleaBay is an obvious showcase of such people > > there was a guy selling a Falcon Takes Over 1sh in nice condition. He had > it at $395 which is like top retail for the title (I need it as a Raymond > Chandler piece). It sat on fleaBay for 8 months. I finally offered him $250. > I never heard from him and the following day it was removed from fleaBay. He > didn't even askif I would pay $300. (I wouldn';t anyway, but an email would > have been nice) the guy was a comic book dealer who bought a load of > posters from someone and used Jon Warren's price book. So he had all kinds > of whacked prices. he wasn't looking for pie in teh sky, but the prices were > all at the top except for those items that had outstripped Warren's price > guide which was done years earlier. Jon is a dear friend, but his PG was > non-reality. > > There are the innocent fools, and there are those who take everyone for > fools. Who they are is always obvious to those in the know. > > Rich > > > > > At 06:42 AM 6/28/2009, Dave Rosen wrote: > > I'm not going to defend sellers who ask, as you say, "ridiculous" prices. > But I will say that comparing them to Bruce or Heritage may be a bit > apples-and-oranges. > > The sellers you refer to (though I don't know specifically who you're > talking about) are retailers who purchase inventory, then offer it for sale. > Thus their return has to cover the cost of the item plus overhead before > they see one penny of profit. Bruce and Heritage are consignment sellers. > They have overhead, certainly, but do not have cash invested directly in the > items they sell. > > Thus, when they auction stuff off starting at 99-cents or a dollar (really > $15 in Heritage's case) they are, in a sense, gambling with someone else's > money, the people who consign their posters to them. There's absolutely > nothing wrong with that, that's the nature of the business. That's just the > way consignment works. It means they can start their auctions lower and take > the risk that the lower starting price will attract more bidders. > > It works most of the time, but occasionally items do slip under the radar > and sell at prices that are much lower than the average market price. Bruce > and Heritage can afford to take that chance, particularly because they sell > thousands of posters and are popular online "destinations" and have a client > base in the thousands. Most other sellers are much smaller and can't > affordto take that chance. > > The other comment I have to make is, if the prices truly are "ridiculous" > then the items will not sell and the prices will come down. That's market > economics, I don't have to explain that to you. So your choice is to buy > somewhere else (if you can find what you want there) and/or wait till the > price comes down. > > It's that simple. > > Dave > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Claude > Litton<http://us.mc518.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=twoni...@aol.com> > To: > MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<http://us.mc518.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mop...@listserv.american.edu> > Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:55 AM > Subject: [MOPO] ebay poster prices > > > I have been searching ebay almost daily since 1997. My areas of search > are US originals Pre-1940 through 1960. I collect mainly posters in the > upper price brackets. In the last few years the amount of listings by too > many sellers with ridiculous prices has proliferated to the point where the > only thing certain is that not only don't they sell but more and more are > joining the pack. > > The prices are so high that you can't even make a serious offer because > it will be so low that they will either ignore you or send you a snide > retort. My reaction has been to totally ignore these sellers but it has > become a nuisance due to the number joining them. There are some on mopo > who do this but I am not referring to Todd who uses his million dollar > posters to get people to look at his other posters for sale. I am talking > about those who price all their posters at ridiculous prices. > > I don't even look at ebay daily any longer but wait for Bruce and > Heritage to offer what I want. (This is a good opening for Bruce to > comment.) I am still trying to understand their motives. Just look at a > one sheet of "Three Sons", a poster sold by Bruce for $56 recently and > priced at 10 times that on ebay. Let's face reality - People who are going > to spend $500 and up on a piece of paper will know their item, will research > it and will be careful about their money. $20 is an impulse purchase. $500 > is not. Can anyone explain these ridiculous sellers' motives? > > CJL > > > ------------------------------ > Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy > recipes<http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000006>for the grill. > 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. > > > 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. > > 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.
