Thanks Tom. It really amazed me to look over the list of online buyers from 1999 and see just how many of them are *STILL *regular eMoviePoster.com buyers!
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:18 PM, <dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com>wrote: > >wow that's great Bruce !!! i am so glad you found that data! also > shows a growth pattern.. best of luck for many more years of success > you have done a good job. > > > > > >---- Original Message ---- > >From: brucehershen...@gmail.com > >To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > >Subject: RE: [MOPO] We recently discovered complete records of our > >very first online sales from May 1999! > >Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 15:42:18 -0500 > > > >>*We recently discovered complete records of our very first online > >sales > >>from May 1999 (which had been "lost" for many years!)* > >> We have always known that we started auctioning on eBay early > >in May > >>of 1999, but our records from that time were in a very primitive > >Microsoft > >>Works table that we soon abandoned, and a few years later, when our > >>computers were being formatted, we *THOUGHT* the file with those > >sales had > >>been accidentally deleted (we now back up *EVERYTHING* in several > >ways, to > >>prevent this from ever happening again). But we just came across > >that table > >>among some super-old files, so not only are we now able to add our > >first > >>1,906 Internet sales ever (from May 7th, 1999 through the end of > >that year) > >>to our *Auction History > >><http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html>*table, but we > >also > >>can right now share with you some interesting > >>information about how we began on eBay! > >> > >>Our very first auctions ever were on 5/7/99, and they were three > >"test" > >>auctions of linenbacked one-sheets at $49.95 each, and the three > >posters > >>sold to three different buyers for the minimum bid (none of those > >three > >>buyers from May 7th, 1999 are still current customers). We added > >five > >>auctions on May 10th, five auctions on May 11th, and seven auctions > >on May > >>14th, and those started at a variety of prices, all well under the > >retail > >>value of the posters, and all sold (at that time, I solely auctioned > >>posters that I owned personally, because I knew that at first I > >would be > >>selling for under retail, sometimes "giving" the posters away, so I > >wanted > >>the loss to be mine and not that of any consignor, and it was not > >until > >>12/6/1999 that I first ran an auction for a consignor that was not a > >poster > >>I owned myself). > >> > >>You can see a chart of those first 20 auctions below: *Date Sold* > >*Item > >>Title* *Item Size* *Price Sold* 5/7/1999 Young Philadelphians linen > >>one-sheet $49.95 5/7/1999 Tentacles linen one-sheet $49.95 > >5/7/1999 Two > >>Minute Warning linen one-sheet $49.95 5/10/1999 Beast Within > >pressbook $5.50 > >> 5/10/1999 Hunter pressbook $8.50 5/10/1999 Airplane pressbook > >$16.50 > >>5/10/1999 Xanadu linen one-sheet $99.06 5/10/1999 Gauntlet folded > >>one-sheet $25.00 5/11/1999 Blues for Lovers linen one-sheet $49.95 > >>5/11/1999 American Hot Wax linen one-sheet $50.00 5/11/1999 > >Fiddler on > >>the Roof linen one-sheet $50.95 5/11/1999 Oliver's Story pressbook > >$2.00 > >>5/11/1999 Raiders of the Lost Ark pressbook $26.50 5/14/1999 > >Speedway folded > >>one-sheet $89.01 5/14/1999 Kagemusha Spanish folded one-sheet > >$4.95 > >>5/14/1999 Silver Streak folded one-sheet $9.95 5/14/1999 Summer > >1999 > >>Sales List Sales List > >> $3.00 5/14/1999 Heaven Can Wait pressbook $12.09 5/14/1999 > >Meatballs > >>pressbook $15.50 5/14/1999 Spy Who Loved Me linen one-sheet $77.00 > >> > >>The first of the posters that were auctioned on May 10th was bought > >by one > >>of our current customers (in fact, he just had an order shipped last > >>week!), so we are awarding him an *Ultimate Bonus Offer* (containing > >books > >>with an original retail of around $500, plus a coffee table book > >that > >>retails for $50 or more, like Graven Images!), for being our longest > >term > >>current online customer (he has been buying from us on the Internet > >for 14 > >>years)! > >> > >>Starting on May 17th, we began adding around 10 auctions per day for > >four > >>days each week, and over the next few weeks, we began adding around > >50 > >>auctions per week. Over the course of the rest of 1999, we kept > >upping our > >>pace, and by the end of the year, we had auctioned 1,906 items! It > >is also > >>interesting to note that not all of these items were auctioned on > >eBay. > >>Four of those items we auctioned on May 11th were auctioned in > >>*AMAZON*auctions (yes, back then, Amazon had auctions just like > >>eBay's!). But the > >>Amazon auctions never really took off, and we quickly saw that the > >eBay > >>auctions were far superior, so only 70 of those 1,906 auctions were > >on > >>Amazon. Over the next three years, we saw really substantial growth, > >as > >>seen in the chart below: > >> *Year* *Items Sold* *Total Sales* 1999 1,906 $83,731.09 2000 > >17,165 > >>$594,106.54 > >> 2001 23,311 $978,336.66 2002 31,785 $1,883,722.71 > >> > >>Of course, those numbers are dwarfed by our 2012 sales of 110,628 > >items for > >>a total of $4,072,951 (and our very similar numbers for our first > >half of > >>2013). You can find sales results for all the years from 2002 to the > >>present at * http://www.emovieposter.com/sales/postersales.php*. But > >the > >>above 1999 sales are how our online business began, and I thought > >many of > >>you would enjoy seeing this information (and I know that some number > >of you > >>have been customers of ours over this entire 14 year period, and I > >thank > >>you very much!). > >>-- > >>Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com > >team > >>P.O. Box 874 > >>West Plains, MO 65775 > >>Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when > >we take > >>lunch) > >>our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> > >>our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> > >> > >> * Complete Buyer > >>Protection<http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/20120625ad_emovieposte > >r_no_buyer_beware_buyer_warranty.jpg>- > >>*No time limit on our guarantees & *NO* buyer beware > >>* Hershenson Help > >>Hotline<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/20120906_mc > >w_ad_hershenson_help_hotline_forsite.jpg>- > >>*Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems* > >>*Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth* Customer > >Reviews *of > >>our company * - Page > >>1<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page > >1.jpg>, > >>Page > >2<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page2 > >.jpg>, > >>Page > >3<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page3 > >.jpg> > >>*, which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes > >our > >>company and our auctions so very different from all others! > >> > >> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > >> > >___________________________________________________________________ > >> How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > >> > >> Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > >> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > >> > >> The author of this message is solely responsible for its content > >. > >> > >> > > > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. 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