i respect the argument that the owners of material are perfectly within their
rights to determine the price that they are willing to accept (as ridiculous a
price as it may be). i don't even get annoyed at their
rattling-of-a-stick-inside-a-swill-bucket hyperbole. where i get annoyed is
with experienced (?) dealers like mrs miniver who list window cards at mental
prices but then forget to mention/deliberately elide in their description that
their cards are cut and therefore damaged (or at least "incomplete"). this is
really beyond the pale, totally pathetic and brings the hobby into disrepute.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PSYCHO-MAN-KNEW-TOO-MUCH-Movie-Poster-WCs-ORG-/390227686699?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0#ht_3127wt_930
--- On Sat, 21/8/10, Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com> wrote:
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <sa...@comic-art.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Saturday, 21 August, 2010, 21:37
At 01:01 PM 8/21/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
I had not looked over these
listings for quite some time, but after all this talk I just looked them
over and I am amazed just how many people there are playing this wacky
game.
I know eBay is giving free listings, but does this really help anyone?
Many of the items are inflated by a factor of ten, and I would think they
crowd out any "real" listings there (if there are any
left).
Pitiful!
Bruce
Totally correct Bruce. Between those listings and all the morons selling
reproductions and personality posters in the posters, originals
categories, it's nearly impossible to find stuff you're looking for
easily.
it's also why there are (at this particular moment) 1,000,336 listings in
Movie Memorabilia, but only 37,853 AUCTION listings (less than 4% of
total listings)
of course, of those 37,853 listings, only maybe 5000 of them (and I'm
being generous) are "true" auctions
Between Bruce, Heritage and myself on MPB, there are more true auctions
every week of movie memorabilia than on fleaBay, and unlike fleaBay's
listings - the three of us actually sell all of our listings (subject to
a weekly sell through rate) and on fleaBay, I'd bet dimes to dollars that
maybe 1500-2000 items actually sell
it's why fleaBay has become a pathetic website for collectors
Rich
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