Nice touch, Rich. I also understand 'shifting priorities' as one nears 60.
My 5 year old daughter 'demands' it. ad On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art < sa...@comic-art.com> wrote: > 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 > > 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. > 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.
