You may not need to read emails about someone you view as a colleague, whom you like... but there are other people in the hobby and other people who have been enamored of movies but haven't had enough money to get into the hobby who do need to hear it.
I say this for a very specific reason -- you probably have a relationship with Heritage and Grey because they are -- let's face it -- so large. You've probably bought and sold posters from him. You may feel that though you may have had differences, over the years, you've worked them out and have developed a professional respect for one another. You know that you can contact Grey and X, Y or Z will happen because there is professional respect -- or at least, a professional relationship. (I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and assume Grey respects you, but let's face it -- in business, there are some you respect and others you tolerate....). Still, because you are in the business and not a newbie or a fly-by-night, Grey and Heritage have responded to you in a professional manner. This was not true in my case. Our posters were not properly inventoried, and I can prove it. I can and will prove it. I mean -- I couldn't even get an email reply saying this was all the posters we had of yours. After our posters went missing, I started looking into complaints against Heritage. Given the sales numbers that Heritage does, the complaints admittedly are small in numbers. What I noticed was that the majority seemed to be from the weak -- seniors like ourselves, or, in another case, a guy with Parkinson's. The complaints weren't from their professional colleagues but average Joes who felt taken. You're saying it doesn't matter to you -- which is fine -- but there are others to whom it would matter. Others who will come to this list looking for a way to sell their parent's collection. These average Joes and Janes won't be in the "industry". They'll be the fly-by-nights. They will be the one shot consignment who will contact an expert and be funneled into an auction house, not knowing what posters they have or their true value. They won't know how to photograph their posters to document what they have, nor will they even now what a one sheet is. My emails and posts are for these folks who -- through the power of the internet -- will come here looking for what to do with their posters.. ________________________________ From: peter contarino <pcontar...@triad.rr.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Missing posters Agreed. Inappropriate.. Peter From:MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of James Gresham Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:58 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Missing posters Helmut, I agree completely. I am sure there are two sides to every story and we dont need to hear additional details. Besides, I am way more apt to trust Grey. No way they are going to keep someones posters. No offense to you Geraldine, but Heritage is not keeping your posters. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Helmut Hamm <texasmu...@web.de> wrote: Geraldine, since you're already employing an attorney, why don't you let him handle the conversation regarding this matter? As far as I'm concerned, this is between you and Heritage (or between your attorney and Heritage at this point) and I do not need any more of this on Mopo. Helmut Hamm http://www.filmposter.net On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Geraldine Kudaka <gkud...@rocketmail.com> wrote: I am glad to see Robert Rogovin and James Greshin found their "missing posters". I wish I could say the same. After posting here (March 31 & Apr 3, 2012) that Charlie Lippincott and I were missing posters from Heritage, Grey offered to handle our auctions without a commission. No longer thrilled with our relationship with Heritage, we refused. Next, Grey Smith offered to donate their estimated value to charity -- which we also refused. Grey then sent back a batch of posters. Upon receipt, I emailed asking if these posters returned were all the posters held by Heritge. No reply. On May 7 our attorney sent Grey Smith and Heritage a letter requesting the names of the bonded staff member who had received our poster shipments and the names of both staff members who double checked the inventory. I repeated my emails to Grey requesting to know whether he had shipped back everything we had sent to heritage. No reply. Finally, on May 8, I sent an email with the heading 5TH REQUEST. Grey Smith replied the next day, but did not affirm the return represented ALL our inventory. It took two more emails before he said everything had been returned. As of May 18, Grey Smith claims they have not received a letter from our attorney. ________________________________ From:Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Missing posters Over the years a ton of people have contacted us that one or more items were missing from their package (so many that we have a "stock" reply telling them to carefully check EVERYTHING again). Time after time people contact us all embarrassed to say they found it. I can only recall a couple of times over a 20 year period where people were adamant the missing items weren't there, and I refunded them. 99.9% of poster collectors are among the most honest people on earth. That ,1%... well...! 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