I left the hobby in 2004 and recently returned. I was an avid eBay
buyer/seller. From my experience I can say that a few posters have greatly gone
up in value since I left:
Jaws (these used to go for $75-$100)
Night of the living dead
Good, Bad, and the ugly ($150 easy)
Cool hand luke ($300-$350 any day)
But most poster prices have stayed stagnant. The problem I see is that no one
uses eBay as an auction site. It's mainly being used to sell posters at above
auction house prices (some prices are quite ridiculous). The excitement is
gone. Ten years ago I found myself in a bidding war on multiple posters
everyday. Now I might not see an actual eBay auction for weeks.
The other problem causing the decrease in excitement is hoarding. I think a lot
of collectors horde posters in boxes never to see the light of day. To me if
you don't have the wall space to frame and display it, why keep it to yourself?
Let someone appreciate it and display it. If you think your children will
appreciate inheriting a box of posters you might want to think again. They will
probably just end up sending that box to Bruce or Heritage to sell off. There
simply is no reason for anyone to own and horde hundreds of posters; your
actually causing major part of the problem...the lack of inventory.
I'm sorry if this comes across as controversial, but I doubt you can argue with
it.
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> On Feb 26, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Philipp Kainbacher
> <00000015e579331a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu> wrote:
>
> I still cannot believe people paying such high fees consigning their posters
> to the auction houses if they could get a much higher price selling
> directly....I have not seen any increase of prices of most posters during the
> last 15 years not counting the top pieces over 5,000....incredible
>
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