thanks Channing. I was hoping I would see you
this week, but you may see me in the Bay area sooner than the next Courts show
At 02:50 PM 9/23/2014, Channing Thomson wrote:
9/23/2014
Hi Rich nicely done and very informative. It
sounds like you have your hands full. Great
news about Ray Courts starting the show up
again. Maybe Ill check it out some time in the future.
Best, Channing
On Sep 23, 2014, at 1:20 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
>
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