Rudy, Please put me on the list of salvage companies to call.
-----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of rudy franchi Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:25 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] BUSTED COLLECTIBLES etc These Sinister Theories Will Change How You Feel About Childhood Cartoons - Business Insider On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Rudy Franchi <rudynostal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now that brings back memories. I was spending a lot of time in Europe > during the telephone card craze and I'd see tables full of them at the > postcard shows I went to. Whenever I got tempted to get involved with > them, I reminded myself that I was on the very continent that was home > to the famed Tulip Madness madness, a series of events that lent its > name to any display of mass irrational exuberance. > > As for 80s posters: In the article I was referring to the huge number > of titles ( Mister Mom, Adventures In Babysitting, etc. ) that > surface in roll after roll when some ex movie theater employee is > moving. > Sure there are some good titles. There are even some very good Mexican > lobby cards or posters from India. But 99% of the stuff from that era > is under $10 dross. Bruce has had success with such material and I've > actually referred several large accumulations of 80s and 90s stuff to him. > > Even in the poster business there's room for a salvage company. rudy > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Helmut Hamm <texasmu...@web.de> wrote: >> >> As far as the eighties posters, I'll take a garage full of them, if >> you can find them. They sell pretty well, if they are good titles. >> >> >> >> Kirby, >> >> I agree, however the GOOD titles do well from ANY decade, the question is: >> What will be considered a 'good' title decades later? >> >> As in any other collectibles market, if you're buying for investment >> purposes, you have to know what you're doing. This goes for posters >> from any period, it's obviously not limited to the 1980s. >> >> If you had bought that garage full of 1980s posters for 10 cents a >> piece twenty years ago, you could certainly make money today, if you >> paid $10 a pop, hoping that each and every one of them would be worth >> at least $50 today, you would still have a hard time getting your money back... >> >> Let's face it, the number of RAIN MEN (still a solid $4 title at >> emovieposter) far outnumbers the FERRIS BUELLER Internationals, that >> can sell for $750-$1,000. >> >> While some titles are obviously more desirable than others, 1980s >> poster certainly don't qualify as 'busted collectibles'. >> >> I don't know about the US, but over here, PHONE CARDS were THE big >> 'investment opportunity' in the late 1980s and early 90s, the prepaid >> cards made to be used in public phone booths. Within a few years, an >> whole industry developed around them and the market was FLOODED by >> the darn things. >> For a few years, 'limited editions' were all over the place, with the 'top' >> titles selling for four-digit amounts. Ten thousands of collectors >> believed in the amazing 'investment potential', until one day, >> mobile phones came along... ;-( Now, if you're lucky, and you have >> enough time, I'm sure you can still find someone who'll pay you 50c >> for what once was a '$1,000 phone card', but 99.9% are worth exactly >> NOTHING these days... 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