your better posters would do much better at Heritage, no question.
On 10/18/2023 7:39 PM, Glenn Taranto wrote:
I've told my Niece and Nephew that when I go to send my posters to Bruce.
Explaining, "You'll likely never get what I paid for them but it'll be
money in your pocket you wouldn't have had otherwise. Even if it's
five bucks, get a cup of coffee and think of me!"
Glenn T.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 7:30 PM Richard Halegua MPB.auction
<richadmin@mpb.auction> wrote:
of all the ridiculous posts I see people make about collectibles
in general, and movie posters in particular, this one was an
absolute laugh.
Pay attention folks: as far as 'investments' go, movie posters
has, sadly, shown itself to be among the least best candidates for
a place to invest money and after the author of this post says
"..what is something I can invest in that has not gone sky high in
recent years?". Can I self-servingly suggest vintage movie paper?"
the author follows it with
"..it is 100% true that a LOT of vintage movie posters sell for
the same or similar prices that they did 20 or more years ago,
including both great ones and lesser ones!"
and
"..most are at huge discounts to prices of the same or similar
items many years ago!"
does the author not understand that these statements are the
opposite of "posters are a good investment"
listen, I'm in this business and have been for a very long time,
and I would love for my Raymond Chandler collection, or my German
posters for Fritz Lang films or for gosh sakes my many thousands
of gambling themed movie posters & lobby cards to be worth an
investment, but they aren't. I think I'll be lucky to be able to
get anything close to my money back, should I ever be selling
these holdings (likely I'll never get there, seeing as I have
300,000 other posters to sell first as well as a couple hundred
thousand non poster items from comics to art to any kind of paper
you can imagine).
(note: 50s horror & sci-fi has topped out, as has, apparently,
Universal horror)
Sure, if you only have Star Wars posters, or a very narrow title
range of 1970s-2000's posters, there is some investment value. But
as a general rule, poster values are in the negative, not the
positive.
Forbidden Planet was a keystone title in posters for decades, but
it hasn't really increased in value in any fashion at all, and if
the one I sold in 2005 for $8500 is only worth $8500 today, that
is not an investment, that is a negative money play, as that
$8500, even in just a 2% bank account would be over $13,000 today.
Any comic book I could have bought in 2005 for $8500 - and I mean
ANY - would be worth at least twice that and more likely is a
$20-50k item today. If you bought an $8500 copy of Amazing Fantasy
15 in 2005, it is likely $100k today.maybe more come to think of it.
I wish all the way down to my toes that posters were a good
investment, but unless you buy them at low wholesale rates, like
dealers do, there is literally no-investment and I think that
every dealer, including the one who posted that ridiculous email,
knows the truth of this.
movie posters as investment.. what a laugh
"On 10/18/2023 5:47 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
People keep saying to me "Bruce, what is something I can invest
in that has not gone sky high in recent years?". Can I
self-servingly suggest vintage movie paper?
It might SEEM like I am saying this because that is my
livelihood, but it is 100% true that a LOT of vintage movie
posters sell for the same or similar prices that they did 20 or
more years ago, including both great ones and lesser ones!
This is something you can't say about just about ANYTHING else,
from real estate to the stock market to groceries to oil, to
almost EVERY other kind of collectible!
While many of the best examples of comic books or baseball cards
or so many other collectibles are "out of sight" to an average
person, you CAN still buy a wonderful movie poster for a
surprisingly reasonable price!
Want proof? Take a gander at my company's (eMoviePoster.com's)
current 3,185 auctions currently running in our 3-part 24th
Annual Halloween Auction at
https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html
These 3,185 auctions are FILLED with great horror/sci-fi/fantasy
items at every price level, and at the current bid prices, most
are at huge discounts to prices of the same or similar items many
years ago!
But you can't get those great deals if you aren't bidding, so why
not go to the above links RIGHT NOW? We think you will surely
find the great rarities and many low prices an irresistible
combination!
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