Allen
Now I'm VERY confused! Is the "piling on" that bothers you the
criticism of Heritage? These threads actually started out with a
bunch of die-hard Heritage supporters "piling on" against Geraldine,
and only David Kusumoto stood up for her!
But be that as it may, let me address your comment to me about me
not "needing this situation".
For quite some time, Heritage has (or had) a page on their site
showing how many more page views a day their entire site gets than
mine (and they name my site).
They believe this is a strength they have over my business, and they
are trying to exploit it (I will leave out a discussion of the
merits of comparing ALL their visitors from a huge spectrum of
collectibles to mine).
But when I REPLY to a discussion about a strength in my business
over theirs (I do not initiate it as they do in the example above),
you say I don't "need this situation"!
Why exactly is this so? If there is something factually incorrect in
what I have posted (here or anywhere) please let me know and I will
retract it and apologize.
Here's an example of what I consider a VERY valid observation of a
major difference between our two businesses:
Isn't is a HUGE conflict of interest when a major auction house own
major shares in grading companies, and that they buy graded items
from their own auctions and also directly from people who contact
them, and then have them re-graded higher by companies they
partially own, and then re-auction them to people who bid with a
snipe program the major auction house itself owns (and at least some
of those bidding have no idea the sniping company is owned by the
very company they are bidding with)?
Now if you see no conflict in this, fine. But I don't see what is
wrong with my raising this factual query, just as I see nothing
wrong with them showing that their entire site has more visitors than my site.
Bruce
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:44 PM, allen day
<<mailto:aday_5...@yahoo.com>aday_5...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Howdy y'all,
I am not going to pretend to speak for Mrs Kudaka; she is a member
of MOPO; she has every right to post as she sees fit, just as her
detractors have every right to label it as horse hooey.
What I perceive as 'getting old' (besides myself), is the 'piling on'
However, there is a great balancer in all this ... delete key.
BTW ... please use the delete key on this message ASAP
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From: Rix Posterz <<mailto:rixpost...@aol.com>rixpost...@aol.com>
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Geraldine,
Personally, I send all of my high-end pieces to Bruce H., but, man.
all this constant negative B.S. about Heritage Auctions is in my
estimation truly getting old. Even if Grey Smith was the Devil
incarnate, I'd be growing weary of your constant diatribes I have
no doubt that most members of Mopo feel the same way. but are too
polite to say what they think it to you. If I'm wrong, Mopo. please
lie me on a bed of nails and let Rich find great pleasure in urinating on me!
For all of us, Geraldine, please silence yourself about
all this worn-out bullshit,
Sincerely,
Rick Ryan
rixposterz
In a message dated 6/8/2012 6:49:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
<mailto:gkud...@rocketmail.com>gkud...@rocketmail.com writes:
Seems to me the director of a professional auction company would not
say, "Don't worry, we have your posters tagged and
inventoried" unless they did have them tagged.
Seems to me, a professional auction company doing what is close to a
billion dollars worth of annual sales would have a very good
double-ledger type of accounting software tied to a database which
could help staff evaluate poster's worth and track it's movement
through their system. That same software would not allow an employee
to simply remove it's existence from their inventory.
Seems to me if a professional auction company has high end Signature
auctions and weekly low-end auctions, posters going in the low-end
auction would be in the same database.
Seems to me, if a company like Bruce's which does a high volume of
annual sales is capable of keeping track of their customer's
inventory, a company like Heritage, which specialized in high end
Signature auctions, should be able to keep track of inventory....
The question is, does a high end company like Heritage depend on
their customer's inventory to evaluate a poster's worth or a
shipment? Doubt it.
From: John Waldman <<mailto:jhnwald...@yahoo.com>jhnwald...@yahoo.com>
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Seems to me a professional auction company would tell the customer
to do a inventory. Not everyone knows what to do when they are
selling something at auction. It's not an everyday occurrence after all.
A little customer service goes a long way.
JW
From: Geraldine Kudaka <<mailto:gkud...@rocketmail.com>gkud...@rocketmail.com>
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
These conversations move very rapidly, especially when one gets
loopy after a lot of hours writing emails. My apologies...
I don't know if you've been following the discussion about our
submissions to Heritage and our stock -- which we had been told by
Grey were tagged and inventoried -- "disappearing". We were never
paid for them and they weren't returned.
After Heritage only listed a portion of our posters on their
inventory, Rudy Franchi told us Heritage didn't want the common
posters -- like the Judge Dredd double sided transparency posters
used in light box marquees we had sent in our first consignment
batch -- and suggested we consign the higher valued posters to
Heritage, and common posters like the aforementioned Dredd to Bruce.
I posted my submission to Bruce on MOPO because there was a lot of
talk about my responsibility for sending an un-inventoried lot to
Heritage. In fact, some MOPOers said I was to blame for their
"disappearance" at Heritage because I hadn't inventoried them or
pursued Grey about their status.
Well, at the same time we sent our 2nd batch of posters to Heritage,
we sent an equal sized consignment batch to Bruce. Like the Heritage
consignment, this consignment to Bruce was not inventoried.
I haven't been posting Bruce illegally appropriated my goods because
there wasn't a problem with payments or returns.
The deal was straight ahead and worked without any effort on my part.
And if Bruce wears a kilt or has good legs... well, I couldn't say.
From: Rix Posterz <<mailto:rixpost...@aol.com>rixpost...@aol.com>
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Wait...maybe I missed something. Does Bruce wear a kilt? Is that
what you're saying?
In a message dated 6/6/2012 5:44:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
<mailto:gkud...@rocketmail.com>gkud...@rocketmail.com writes:
I did forget to mention you, Bruce... Sorry.. Mistake as you were
the inspiration for my disgruntled attitude... Your regular payments
to our Paypal account was what kept Heritage's lack of payments in
the forefront of my mind.
Even though your company has done phenomenally well -- an
inspiration for any ebay seller that yes, there is life after ebay
-- Heritage gets more press because of their huge glossy catalog and
high dollar items...
But you've proven that reliability is more important than big glossies.
Reminds me of a producer I knew who accidentally started investing
in coin operated laundromats. He loved it. Said all those quarters
were the easiest way to rake in the money, and he didn't have to
deal with whining actors and residuals. All it took was a part time
handyman to keep those machines running.
Quarters add up faster than big checks that never clear.
From: Bruce Hershenson
<<mailto:brucehershen...@gmail.com>brucehershen...@gmail.com>
To: Geraldine Kudaka <<mailto:gkud...@rocketmail.com>gkud...@rocketmail.com>
Cc: <mailto:MoPo-L@listserv.american.edu>MoPo-L@listserv.american.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Thanks much! That is the huge advantage of having 26 people working
here, compared to just a handful (or just two) at many other places.
And of course it is not just your consignment, but all the ones we
receive (which can be very daunting, since we receive thousands of
items per week, of all sizes, from all countries, and from all
years). This past Sunday we even added TOYS to our Sunday lineup!
Our job is to make it EASY for collectors to dispose of unwanted
items, and to help them get more than they could if they sold them
to a dealer. If they need to have notarized lists of what they sent
(complete with videos of them placing the items into packages and
taking them to the Post Office!) then we no longer serve that
function, and our consignors will go elsewhere.
Bruce
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Geraldine Kudaka
<<mailto:gkud...@rocketmail.com>gkud...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
One point, which Sean inspired me to put into my email rebuttal --
is actually a very important point which I didn't bring up earlier
because it wasn't relevant.
The same day we shipped out this 2nd batch of 30-40 un-inventoried
posters to Heritage, we also shipped a batch of the same 30-40 batch
size to Bruce.
We packed them at the same time, and took them both to be shipped,
insured... of course.
Bruce immediately responded by email, and we started getting sales
reports & payments to our Paypal account.
In fact, it was Bruce's regular payments that caused us to start
questioning why we hadn't heard from Heritage.
So here's to Bruce, for handling out 30-40 un-inventoried posters in
a responsible, professional way.
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