Hi Rich Your email probably applies to a lot of us. I am in my early 60s and suddenly starting to realise that my warehouse full of posters has gotten out of control. When I look at it all I sometimes wonder how I could have accumulated so much over the last twenty years or so. It's certainly true that you can't keep up the same pace forever but you still have to move the stock that you have or maybe even throw a lot of it away. Ultimately, I think we all have to wind down a bit from time to time. Regards John
-----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2014 6:20 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] MoviePosterBid Auctions being rescheduled and other notices about the future of auctions 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=8016 543&fpart=1 http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027 017&fpart=1 http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027 019&fpart=1 http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8051 418#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.
