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> <mailto: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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