Hi Folks.
I've been getting some queries about what's going on at
MoviePosterBid.com as my schedules have been rather erratic for the
past few months
I had announced an autographs auction that was going to begin today,
but I won't be making it.
I've been working on a number of projects for the past several months
all related to my other collectibles stuff and it's been reducing the
schedule of available time to do movie poster auctions
Why is this happening?
Well it's like this, since I took over & started doing a regular
auction on MoviePosterBid.com in 2006, for the past 8 years I have
done almost nothing else other than my auctions.
For 7 years, this was a weekly process that I had assistants for, but
my Secretary of many years Anna moved on last May and I'd been
handling it mostly by myself until my friend Brian had started
helping me a few months back.
Doing these auctions is a real job.. Creating, photographing,
listing, shipping (and all the other attendant work for an auction)
is 160 hours work. For most people 160 hours is full time job and
they would be correct, it is indeed a full time job. In retrospect,
it's hard to understand how I did this for 7 years on a weekly
rotation and while I have been doing a monthly or even bi-weekly
series for a while, the combination of all the other work and the
auctions means something has got to give.
For instance, for all of that 7 years, my warehouse, which is full of
other material aside from movie posters has pretty much laid
untouched, which means that nearly $1,000,000 of merchandise has been
effectively not for sale. Comic books, original comic art, pulp
magazines, movie & other magazines, miscellaneous items of all kinds
and who-knows-what have sat, mostly untouched except for when boxes
needed to be moved so that I could get at the movie posters behind
them. It's something I can't ignore anymore.
I must process and list all that stuff. Turn it into cash and trade.
Get it out of my overstuffed and disorganized 2200 sqft of racked and
shelved warehouse.
As a result, I have been far more busy working in the back of the
building than in the front and no question, movie poster auctions
have taken a back seat.
For the near term this is not going to change. I have to get this
work done and it is going to take the rest of this year at least. My
ambitions make me think I can do all this work and fast, but as I
near 60, I'm finally coming to the conclusion that I can't work like
I did when I was 35.
What that means is that I will not be able to adhere to a regular
bi-weekly auction schedule, though it does not mean I will not be
doing auctions. It just means that sometimes an auction will be
happening and sometimes not. I had an auction of autographed items
announced that would start today, but is being delayed not just
because of the work I have in back, but also because I'm leaving
Thursday for L.A. to be at the Ray Courts Celebrities Show return in
Burbank http://courtscelebritiesshow.com/
Ray did his shows for many years, sold out & is now coming back.. and
I'm going!
None the less, I can't get the auction listed in time and rather than
keep saying "an auction is coming now" I'm going to reschedule it for
after my return from LA. I will enlarge this auction and the
autographed items will just be a part of the sale along with folded
posters and lobby cards. This begins October 5th and will not be
rescheduled, so you can mark your calendars
Moving forward, I have been asking new consignors to wait for me as I
clean up all the work I have and get back to a proper point to handle
their material. Thankfully, they have all stated that they would wait
for me and I have some nice collections lined up, so when I get back
to a real schedule, you folks will be very happy.
meanwhile, if you are looking for collectibles to buy, I am currently
processing text lists for comic books, pulps, Big Little Books, art,
magazines and other collectibles as well as a very large list of movie posters
Some material has been listed in the MoviePosterBid.com Supermarket
for ready sale
http://www.movieposterbid.com/index.php?option=com_mijoshop&view=home&Itemid=537
and you can find some comics listings at the CGC comics boards
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8016543&fpart=1
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027017&fpart=1
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027019&fpart=1
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8051418#Post8051418
Also, while we are re-aligning everything here, I'm going to get the
programmer to fix some bugs on MPB that have been irritating me as
well as bidders. Hopefully they can figure out pretty soon what the
solutions are.
In any case, thanks for reading everyone. It's been a long road and
the road hasn't ended.. It goes on into the distance. I hope I find
you waiting at the next rest stop
thanks
Rich
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