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[image: Inline image 1] On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art < sa...@comic-art.com> wrote: > John, there can be no doubt that fleaBay does sell the most material, if > that is the measure of what makes you great > > http://www.ebay.com/sch/Movie-Memorabilia-/196/i.html?LH_Auction=1&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc > > in the last 90 days, that's 100,000 plus items across all categories. > > okay you have to remove the chatchkies and the blankets, but virtually > every other category there is sold by he who sells the most otherwise and > fleaBay outsells him by far. > > as far as "all the items where the buyer never paid".. well I know for a > fact that all dealers -auction and otherwise - have to deal with this issue. > the same person who said the above when promoting his sales database > explains that they remove items where the buyer does not pay, so > insinuating that when others have non-payers it is a bad thing seems a > little foolish at best and false narrative at worst > > why doesn't fleaBay get more very expensive items to sell? well if you're > selling a Frankenstein insert, are you going to give it to Heritage or are > you going to list it on fleaBay?? When Shapiro sold the Metropolis poster > in 2000 Heritage was not selling posters and Shapiro apparently didn't want > to sell via another dealer because he could just as well list the poster on > the same site it would be listed at at the time anyway, so why pay someone > else his 20%? > > at one point I was interested in selling way lots of material annually. > But after trying a 52-week auction format, knowing what my costs were doing > it and how much time it took (and wasted), I realized that it has nothing > to do with "who sells the most". It has to do with "who sells the best". I > am more interested now is selling fewer items, but BETTER items and if who > sells the most "Best Stuff" or "Who does the most dollars" is the > yardstick, there can't be any doubt that Heritage is the absolute gorilla > in the room. Their weekly Sunday sales of 500 posters average $40,000 in > results and their 3 Signature auctions do almost $2,000,000. each (they > were doing even more during the high days of 2006-07-08). That's about > $8mil annually.. The champions! > > myself, once my helper Valerie decided that going to UNLV, working for a > credit card company and working for me was too much for her and excused > herself from her job, followed by my longtime secretary Anna finally > segueing to her dream job of "Spiritual Counseling", leaving me by myself > to do the auctions (no, I did not fire anyone, even though one uninformed > person stated I had on his Facebook page when he was whining) I was finally > able to change to my monthly schedule (with some in between auctions) and > selling fewer items of better quality, I can say that I am being more > successful now on 12 auctions than I was on 52 (again, the opposite of what > one uniformed person posted to his Facebook page) and I have more time to > deal with other material. > > so while I can't say that "I have sold the most" or "I have sold the best > of the best" I can reliably say "I don't care". 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