Rudy, this list is not just for dealers.
There are a lot of people who lurk here who are interested in movie posters.
They are not professional dealers in the business. Some may be non-poster
business people interested in selling off collections acquired from either a
lifetime of working in the industry, or inherited them from dad, who passed on.
This is also a public list which non-subscribers go to for archived information
on how to sell their posters..
As a noted movie poster expert, these uninformed sellers need to know that you
will encourage them to send their collections "post vite" to Heritage.
You will not tell them that they need to protect themselves by doing a
photographic inventory and log of their posters before sending to Heritage.
You will not warn them that Heritage's inventory process is suspect and their
software probably some home-user Access-like database program. (Here, I'm
referring to security differences between programs like Quicken and true
business accounting software which do not allow you to change entries without
leaving a trail.)
You will not tell them that heritage will not return posters they do not sell.
You will simply funnel them to Heritage -- for your commission.
For this reason - among others - an esteemed seller on this list posted a wish
that you were dead...
Need I remind you I defended you? This was before I sat down and went though
our Heritage file and discovered what was really going on. This was before I
went online and found that Heritage has been accused by others for stealing
items submitted for consignment.
Last -- if you think you have spent "a huge amount of time" on this issue, get
real. Suggesting we comply with Heritage's offer of selling without commission
fees is certainly not an email that takes a lot of time to write. After Grey
threatened us with legal action, wehave spent far more money on attorney's fees
than you have... That's a hard financial cost on top of the value of posters
sent to Heritage.
While I appreciate your suggestion we go bankrupt "sueing everybody involved",
I will decline your advice.
In the start, I said this list is not just for dealers. My emails are for the
lurking public, now and in the future.
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From: rudy franchi <r...@nostalgia.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:41 AM
Subject: [MOPO] Reply To Geraldine
It seems that I can't post to MOPO without Geraldine popping out like
a cuckoo bird on a spring. This has gone beyond rational discussion.
I've spent a huge amount of time on this problem and Grey has
spent the equivalent of days in hour after hour of trying to reach a
satisfactory conclusion. Perhaps Geraldine should just sue everyone
involved. After she loses, she can appeal it all the way to the
Supreme Court where it will go down in judicial history as "When I've Got A
Hammer vs. Everything's A Nail." Meanwhile, I will continue to
occasionally post here and just put up with the tirades. On some of
the stock market discussion boards I visit, one can put a particularly
annoying person on "ignore" so that their posts won't show up in your
message box. Would that we could do that here.
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