About the same as Breakfast at Tiffany's one-sheets
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From: Michael B
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 9:41 AM
Subject: [MOPO] PUZZLE: flooding the market
hypothetical:
a man buys a house, and finds 75 Very Good Condition inserts of Casablanca.
YES, all originals. he, realizes their value, and does the following:
1. consigns 15 to heritage. heritage immediately lists 2 in its Signature
auction, and 2 more in the Signature auction for the following Signature
auction (six months later). the other 11 heritage lists every three weeks in
its Sunday night auctions after the first Signature auction.
2. consigns 10 to emovieposter. bruce starts listing them immediately over
a six month period.
3. consigns 5 to various ebay consignment shops, who list over the next 45
days ON EBAY WITH NO RESERVES, STARTING AT $500. they all sell.
4. consigns 5 to various poster dealers he found on MOPO, who list them on
ebay, all with MAKE BEST OFFER OPTIONS. they all sell.
5. he sends 2 each to christies, sothebys, profiles in history, bonhams for
immediate auction sales.
6. now he has 32 left..................so he 22 lists them himself on ebay
after the consignment shop auctions are over for 22 weeks. start price, 500,
no reserve, they all sell.
7. he keeps 10.
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF CASABLANCA INSERT IN ONE YEAR?
mbb
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