yeah.. while it is clear that I still go at full
speed, there isn't any doubt my transmission only
goes to 4th gear now instead of overdrive
I'm finally more ambitious than my body
: - )
At 03:25 PM 9/23/2014, allen day wrote:
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 <<mailto:sa...@comic-art.com>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/>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>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=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=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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