Hi Peter, not sure what you mean that HA's selection is in the toilet.
There's lots of quality material there every week, as well as lesser
stuff in every auction (can't be avoided), but specifically, concerning
value...
NO auction sells $1 posters except for Missouri. You can't buy a $1
poster anywhere else. (except maybe on ebay occasionally)
HA was selling $30 posters, now those are selling for $50, so those are
now $50 posters. A poster value is final cost to the buyer (there's an
argument that your cost is what you pay including shipping, and I agree
with it)
Also, seeing as there is no standard in movie posters, there is no price
guide for instance, so nailing down what is the actual value is
subjective. I think this is a $1 poster (and I would never even offer
it, except in a bulk lot) but HA just got $124. So it's a $124 poster to
the winning bidder and there was obviously an underbidder in order to
get to $124
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/drama/mean-girls-paramount-2004-rolled-very-fine-one-sheet-27-x-40-ds-advance-drama/a/162602-52201.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
But for absolute certain, in Missouri they do indeed sell $50 posters
for $1, as well as $100 linenbacked posters for $1, as the auction
itself has adjudicated them as $50 and $100 values by their minimum
consignment value before taking them in, and just Tuesday (yesterday)
they sold more than half of their auction below $50, more than 400 of
them below $30 and almost 100 of them for $10 or less. If they
adjudicated your poster consignment at $50 or more per poster, they just
sold it for... as little as pennies
Ergo, all things are not equal, and only one auction actually sells and
creates $1 value posters
Personally, I think people sending low value material to Heritage are
wasting their time (and Heritage's time as well), just like I think
people sending $50 to another auction and winding up at $1 is also a
waste of time. In missouri, they constantly exclaim how Heritage sends
you pennies on a $50 sale, but what is the difference between HA selling
a poster for $50 and giving you 75c and Missouri selling your $50 poster
for $1 and sending you 25c?
Also, will the $1 auction ever pay you $56.25 for a Mean Girls poster? I
seriously doubt it.
Rich
On 1/11/2026 11:27 AM, peter contarino wrote:
I agree Rich and yet just as HA increases their weekly premium, the
quality goes further into the toilet. Tonight's auction consists of
bundled trash, and roughly 2/3 of the material isn't worth $49, let
alone the $49 premium. I understand if the intention is to offer
higher-quality material, but if that is the case, then get on with it
and make the auctions worth looking at. It may be as you say that
non-heritage auctions are selling $50 posters for $1, but heritage is
currently selling $1 posters for $50.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM Rich Halegua <[email protected]> wrote:
Helmut
I already did this three years ago, or just removed these low
valued items. It isn't worth the time to sell stuff below $100 for
me, because my business costs only keep increasing and I'm needing
to make more and more money to cover the bills and my own paycheck.
fact: it costs at least $25 to cover the expense & time of selling
anything, and then there is merchandise costs, so where is the
profit margin?
also, I honestly have no idea why people send low value posters to
any auction, beyond their own ability to sell them or having any
interest to do the shipping part.
Campbell's soup isn't even $1 anymore and unlike poster dealers,
the supermarket sells through daily. I'll let Wal Mart & Wal Mart
type auctions sell $1 posters.
Even the non-Heritage auctions that sell posters for $1 aren't
selling $1 posters. They're selling $50 posters for $1 (and being
proud of it, for some odd reason, as their daily promotions
exclaim) or if it's on linen, they're selling a $100 poster for
that dollar, because as stated in their promo, they won't take
posters under $50 value and when they do, they bundle them up in
lots of 50-100 posters or more (netting the consignors pennies per
poster)
selling low value posters for any business is in reality, a dead
end, and the only people who can afford to do that are those that
sell from their garage after they get home from their regular job,
and just doing it for extra cash.
Auctions only take low value stuff in in order to get the higher
value material anyway.
Rich
On 1/6/2026 4:43 AM, Helmut Hamm wrote:
Mmmh... If that's the road to success, I should probably copy it
and stop selling movie posters for €20 or €30 or €40 and
introduce a minimum price of €50 for everything I have.
Helmut
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