At 12:32 PM 9/25/2014, Franc wrote:
"Good" condition usually means it looks like garbage in a frame. The poster
in question was linen-backed, which costs approximately $200 these days. I
reiterate that the price he was asking was not excessive. Granted you can
find bargains one week at Heritage's and xxxx auctions that the following
week will cost four times as much.
Franc
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sort of
and the attitude that auction prices are the retail prices is
uninformed or poorly understood hooey
the fact that prices on sub-$100 posters have deteriorated largely
due to the Wal Marting of posters into a small hobby has reduced the
value of this business considerably.
Folks - auction prices are - 90% of the time - lower than realistic values.
an auction is the price "right now, at this minute, with the buyers
available in this venue"
thinking that auction prices are the true values is a ridiculous
concept. Auction prices are in general low-balled values in every
field. That's why car dealers go to car auctions and buy cars and
it's why a large portion of posters bought at some auction sites are
commonly found afterward on ebay and dealer websites for higher prices.
It's why I was able to buy a Night of the Hunter lobby card set at
one venue for $196 (half the value of the best card in the set in the
condition it was in) and sell 7 of the 8 cards for close to $300 and
have a $400 card in stock
but that's not all, now in this case, the owner asked for price help,
so the critique is expected, but one of the problems in this hobby is
that when you post a list to any forum all you hear from people is
"oh those prices are too high.. at that auction site it sells for xx"
now as a longtime comics dealer, I can say that the lack of
intelligence there can be idiotic, but one thing these people never
do is poo-poo people's material.
While they do point out forgeries and fakes and fake dealers (meaning
liars) but in general, you can't go to comic book forums and find
dealers saying what bad people other dealers are, or that this dealer
shills his stuff, this dealer is dishonest etc etc. something that is
unfortunately too common in posters. In other words, too often the
movie poster hobby is lacking in personal and professional courtesy
and from places that you would not expect
then the reverse is that the same people who rag turn around and ask
"why is the poster hobby so small" as if these folks are totally
oblivious to the negativity they spout.
3 weeks ago a guy joined one of the forums and engaged the members immediately.
three days later he paid some crazy prices for posters at auction and
the same members that he engaged with were dumping on him for what he
paid - totally oblivious that it was the same person they were
chatting with 3 days earlier. So one day they're querying why there
aren't more people and the next they dumping on a newbie because of
what he paid. At what point do you say to yourself "this is wrong."
needless to say, the newbie has not posted again to the forum. It's a
self-fulfilling prophecy and if the comic book hobby was the same, it
wouldn't be any bigger than this one.
Rich
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