I bought my first lobby cards in 1969 from a Texas dealer named Tannar
Miles. I was making my living selling comic books, but I never re-sold a
single poster or lobby card. In 1976 I quit comics 100% and I sold all my
comics, but kept my movie paper collection (mostly lobby cards). In 1984 I
"re-discovered" the hobby, and became partners selling movie paper with my
old friend Ron Barlow, with whom I had done the very first EC comic book
reprints (long before Russ Cochran).
In 1989, I "retired" and *INTENDED *to buy and sell movie posters as a
part-time hobby (to pass time in my retirement) but that quickly got off
track, and the next year I organized the first all-movie poster auction by a
major auction house, and in the years since then I have auctioned quite a
few more posters. It is interesting that when I started full time in 1990,
almost all of the leading dealers at that time predicted I would "hit and
run" (leaving the hobby in a couple of years), but with a very few
exceptions I have far outlasted my critics.
Bruce
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Andy Neal <andyan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Let me guess... eMoviePoster.com started in 1999? How long before that
> were you selling posters Bruce?
>
> Andy
> www.movieposterforum.com
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:58:08 -0600
> From: brucehershen...@gmail.com
>
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fleabay v's Other Auction sites
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>
> I guess I am the "new kid on the block". I started eMoviePoster.com
> auctions just 19 months ago (but it feels like 19 years).
>
> Bruce
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Andy Neal <andyan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yup Scary as hell - I started MPF in July 05, 5 years in a few months, how
> the time flies when your having fun :-)
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:43:31 -0500
> From: jrl...@mediabearonline.com
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fleabay v's Other Auction sites
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>
>
> Wow... it's been almost 6 years? That's scary.
>
> -- JR
>
> Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
>
> actually JR
> you created MoviePosterBid in 2004
>
> I bought it from you in March 2006.... and I'm glad I did!!!!!!
>
>
>
> At 12:33 PM 1/19/2010, James Richard wrote:
>
> Andy,
>
> In the continental U.S. there is no other "general merchandise" auction
> sites that have anywhere near the customer base of Ebay, not by a huge
> factor. Yahoo and Amazon both tried to float competing auction sites to Ebay
> many years ago and got their butts whupped. There is a persistent rumor that
> Google is going to launch an auction site "one of these days" but I don't
> believe it.
>
> There are plenty of specialty auction sites that are having success since
> Ebay has become so swamped with crap and so expensive and unfriendly for
> real auctioneers to use -- why do you think I created
> www.MoviePosterBid.com 4 years ago?
>
> -- JR
>
> Andy Neal wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> A few people have told me about new experiences with fleabay in that they
> are having items removed saying they are fakes (Non Movie Poster material)
>
> They are 100% not fakes and ebay say they are not targeting (which
> obviously they are as tey are removing them)
>
> The fact that they were added on a free listing day rises suspicion (Do
> they expect people to relist and pay) hmmm - I guess this is happening to
> other sellers, maybe not in the movie poster world.
>
> My question is, are there any other general auction sites out there? I do
> hope someone overtakes ebay and shows them what a bunch of crooks they are.
> I wish I had the funds to take them on.
>
> Andy
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