Re: [MOPO] CREDIT CRUNCH AND MOVIE POSTER HOBBY
Is it just me or are things really bad? Ive been paying attention to prices and it seems at BEST,...movie posters have plateaud and at worst are crashing. I mean,.even the so called good stuff doesnt seem to be really that impressive anymore. I wonder how much one could get for an Attack of the fifty foot woman poster or This Gun For Hire [0ne sheet]. I think its going to get worse. :( --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: [MOPO] FA: 1,998 posters in Parts III IV of our end-of-year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza ending 12/30 1/1! To: mop...@sol03.american.edu Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 1:50 PM * eMoviePoster.com's End-of-Year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza is half over, but you STILL have 1,998 one-sheets to bid on ending 12/30 1/1!* One-sheets are the most popular size movie poster, and we have been consigned many thousands of them, and we have not been able to keep up with auctioning them, so we are holding this end-of-the-year event (which we hope will become an annual event!), as a way to help us catch up on auctioning the one-sheets we have been consigned (and you will find lots and lots of excellent titles contained within the thousands we are auctioning). With so many posters being sold in such a short time, there is a certainty that there will be many deals, and likely some real steals, even on better titles! We will be auctioning a total of 3,996 folded one-sheets spread over four auctions from 12/16 to 1/1 with *NO *duplication between the four auctions (there may be a few posters from the same titles, but they are different styles, or one is a re-release, or one is an international version, etc)! * IMPORTANT NOTICE! *Because these auctions close during the week of the Christmas holiday and the week of the New Year's holiday, some of our staff will be away on vacation, and we imagine so will some of our buyers! This is also a *VERY *busy time at the Post Office and UPS, with many people sending last minute holiday gifts. So, * PLEASE KNOW THAT IT IS FINE WITH US IF YOU WAIT TO PAY FOR YOUR PURCHASES FROM ANY OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THIS One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza UNTIL AFTER THE FINAL PART CLOSES ON JANUARY 1st * (although we ask that you please pay for your purchases promptly right after the last set of auctions closes, as we will be drowning in packages, and will need to get them sent!). This waiting until the last auction closes is especially valuable to those of you who are likely to purchase from more than one part of the auction, because then we can send all those purchases together in a single package, thus saving you a lot of shipping cost! * Please be understanding of our having reduced staff during this holiday time, which may mean we take a little longer to answer e-mails or send orders.* -- * Register for our Auctions* *Over 4,518 movie paper collectors have registered to bid in our auctions, but if you are one of the few movie paper collectors who have not yet registered to bid on our site, go HEREhttp://auctions.emovieposter.com/Registration.tafto do so. * You need to register separately for our auctions on our own site, because the auctions are managed by an auction software company, and you need to create your own user ID and password (of course, your ID and password from any other auction site won't work in our auctions!). It only takes a couple of minutes to do, and it is a one time thing, and thousands of our customers have already done so! -- *Your money goes further with us!* In these uncertain economic times, doesn't it make sense to spend your money where it goes the absolute furthest? We auction everything with a $1 opening bid and no reserves, so we truly sell many items for just $1 or $2 or $3 (there are other auction places that have the nerve to claim they sell their items with $1 and no reserve like we do, but they have a minimum $9 buyers premium, which means those $1, $2, and $3 posters *ACTUALLY* cost you $10, $11, and $12)! We have *NO* buyers premiums, and we only charge the actual cost of shipping (often less, when a buyer buys multiple items). We regularly give lots of great bonuses, often more valuable than the items required to qualify for them! This week, we are selling a total of *1,998 folded one-sheets *in our Tuesday and Thursday auctions (in Parts III and IV of our end-of-year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza), and it is virtually a certainty that some percentage of them will sell for bargain prices, and there may be some absolute steals! Remember that, unlike the majority of hobbies, where the money you spend on your hobby is gone forever, the money you spend buying movie paper will almost certainly be recovered the day you ever sell your
Re: [MOPO] CREDIT CRUNCH AND MOVIE POSTER HOBBY
it depends on who is selling them if you are Heritage or Bruce.. you're very simply - kicking ass - but the days of the average guy selling his posters for top dollar are over, at least for the time being fleaBay continues to slowly go down down down except for a few sellers like Dave and Sean, Marty Davis etc I was starting to kick ass on MPB until the economic crunch slowed me down.. Hopefully, all the stuff I brought home last month will give MPB a little kick-start but look, collectors have no real way to achieve top dollar on their own and this is how it always was until fleaBay opened up. As a collector, you generally don't have access to the customers and as people have exited fleaBay as buyers and sellers, it hasn't helped. So collectors are back to where they were 15 years ago - selling to or consigning to a dealer, which ultimately is better for a collector anyway. Most collectors who wish to sell aren't aware of all the work and costs associated with selling as well as the time element. You already have a job and to work another 10-20 hours a week trying to sell posters is not what you're looking to do. So when you consign or sell to a dealer, you're short-circuiting all that and you either get a check right away when you sell your collection, or over time if you consign and for 99% of all collectors, this is really the best way to go. Those collectors who only have the very top posters however can sell very easily, though right now unless you are Heritage or Bruce, you probably can't get top dollars anyway, A Frankenstein 1 sheet will always sell no matter who owns it. But the rest.. well, you just gotta be Bruce Rich At 12:01 PM 1/3/2009, gary simmons wrote: Is it just me or are things really bad? Ive been paying attention to prices and it seems at BEST,...movie posters have plateaud and at worst are crashing. I mean,.even the so called good stuff doesnt seem to be really that impressive anymore. I wonder how much one could get for an Attack of the fifty foot woman poster or This Gun For Hire [0ne sheet]. I think its going to get worse. :( --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: [MOPO] FA: 1,998 posters in Parts III IV of our end-of-year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza ending 12/30 1/1! To: mop...@sol03.american.edu Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 1:50 PM * eMoviePoster.com's End-of-Year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza is half over, but you STILL have 1,998 one-sheets to bid on ending 12/30 1/1!* One-sheets are the most popular size movie poster, and we have been consigned many thousands of them, and we have not been able to keep up with auctioning them, so we are holding this end-of-the-year event (which we hope will become an annual event!), as a way to help us catch up on auctioning the one-sheets we have been consigned (and you will find lots and lots of excellent titles contained within the thousands we are auctioning). With so many posters being sold in such a short time, there is a certainty that there will be many deals, and likely some real steals, even on better titles! We will be auctioning a total of 3,996 folded one-sheets spread over four auctions from 12/16 to 1/1 with *NO *duplication between the four auctions (there may be a few posters from the same titles, but they are different styles, or one is a re-release, or one is an international version, etc)! * IMPORTANT NOTICE! *Because these auctions close during the week of the Christmas holiday and the week of the New Year's holiday, some of our staff will be away on vacation, and we imagine so will some of our buyers! This is also a *VERY *busy time at the Post Office and UPS, with many people sending last minute holiday gifts. So, * PLEASE KNOW THAT IT IS FINE WITH US IF YOU WAIT TO PAY FOR YOUR PURCHASES FROM ANY OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THIS One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza UNTIL AFTER THE FINAL PART CLOSES ON JANUARY 1st * (although we ask that you please pay for your purchases promptly right after the last set of auctions closes, as we will be drowning in packages, and will need to get them sent!). This waiting until the last auction closes is especially valuable to those of you who are likely to purchase from more than one part of the auction, because then we can send all those purchases together in a single package, thus saving you a lot of shipping cost! * Please be understanding of our having reduced staff during this holiday time, which may mean we take a little longer to answer e-mails or send orders.* -- * Register for our Auctions* *Over 4,518 movie paper collectors have registered to bid in our auctions, but if you are one of the few movie paper collectors who have not yet registered to bid on our site, go HEREhttp://auctions.emovieposter.com/Registration.tafto do
Re: [MOPO] CREDIT CRUNCH AND MOVIE POSTER HOBBY
Selective perception strikes deep. Into your soul it will creep. Extrapolating from short-term events to longer-term trends can also lead to poor decisionmaking. Can you give some specific examples showing how movie posters have plateaud and at worst are crashing - preferably an assemblage of meaningfully comparable data points? I personally would have found it surprising if all of the economic turbulence of the last few months didn't affect the poster trade like every other trade. On the other hand, business was a lot better this Christmas season for me than I expected - and I've never observed my own little corner of the collectibles trade being as heavily seasonal as other forms of retailing. (I mean, things can't be too bad when people are still willing to pay $100 for a signed WHO P-P-P PLUGGED ROGER RABBIT? or $75 for a HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS Cindy Lou Who doll or $200 for a RETURN OF THE JEDI Style A.) To the extent we're still in a deflationary environment - meaning that many people feel poorer and less certain of their ability to pay off debts once incurred, or hold off on present expenditures in the expectation of lower prices tomorrow - then a potentially significant stimulant to the trade may be reduced. On the other hand, like antiques and other art objects, collectibles may weather the storm relatively well, especially if, as some expect, attempts to stave off deflation and free credit eventually create an inflationary environment instead. The last I heard from the auction houses and others was that things were going well. I have no idea how much of it is or was propaganda. I'd be interested in real, concrete reporting as opposed to flights of fancy or depression. Colin CK MacLeod Collectibles at ckmac.com Kymar's on eBay -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@sol03.american.edu]on Behalf Of gary simmons Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 12:01 PM To: mop...@sol03.american.edu Subject: Re: [MOPO] CREDIT CRUNCH AND MOVIE POSTER HOBBY Is it just me or are things really bad? Ive been paying attention to prices and it seems at BEST,...movie posters have plateaud and at worst are crashing. I mean,.even the so called good stuff doesnt seem to be really that impressive anymore. I wonder how much one could get for an Attack of the fifty foot woman poster or This Gun For Hire [0ne sheet]. I think its going to get worse. :( --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: [MOPO] FA: 1,998 posters in Parts III IV of our end-of-year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza ending 12/30 1/1! To: mop...@sol03.american.edu Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 1:50 PM * eMoviePoster.com's End-of-Year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza is half over, but you STILL have 1,998 one-sheets to bid on ending 12/30 1/1!* One-sheets are the most popular size movie poster, and we have been consigned many thousands of them, and we have not been able to keep up with auctioning them, so we are holding this end-of-the-year event (which we hope will become an annual event!), as a way to help us catch up on auctioning the one-sheets we have been consigned (and you will find lots and lots of excellent titles contained within the thousands we are auctioning). With so many posters being sold in such a short time, there is a certainty that there will be many deals, and likely some real steals, even on better titles! We will be auctioning a total of 3,996 folded one-sheets spread over four auctions from 12/16 to 1/1 with *NO *duplication between the four auctions (there may be a few posters from the same titles, but they are different styles, or one is a re-release, or one is an international version, etc)! * IMPORTANT NOTICE! *Because these auctions close during the week of the Christmas holiday and the week of the New Year's holiday, some of our staff will be away on vacation, and we imagine so will some of our buyers! This is also a *VERY *busy time at the Post Office and UPS, with many people sending last minute holiday gifts. So, * PLEASE KNOW THAT IT IS FINE WITH US IF YOU WAIT TO PAY FOR YOUR PURCHASES FROM ANY OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THIS One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza UNTIL AFTER THE FINAL PART CLOSES ON JANUARY 1st * (although we ask that you please pay for your purchases promptly right after the last set of auctions closes, as we will be drowning in packages, and will need to get them sent!). This waiting until the last auction closes is especially valuable to those of you who are likely to purchase from more than one part of the auction, because then we can send all those purchases together in a single package, thus saving you a lot of shipping cost! * Please be understanding of our having reduced staff during this holiday time, which may mean we take a little longer to answer e-mails or send orders
Re: [MOPO] CREDIT CRUNCH AND MOVIE POSTER HOBBY
As a buyer and collector, I can't see what is bad about falling prices at all! I'd love a cheap 50ft woman! That said, as a collector of exploitation titles and stuff on the sleazier side of the scale, the posters I'm watching are still popping out of my, admittedly skinflintish, budgets. The trash collecting part of this hobby seems to be staying healthy! Take care, Michael On 3-Jan-09, at 3:01 PM, gary simmons wrote: Is it just me or are things really bad? Ive been paying attention to prices and it seems at BEST,...movie posters have plateaud and at worst are crashing. I mean,.even the so called good stuff doesnt seem to be really that impressive anymore. I wonder how much one could get for an Attack of the fifty foot woman poster or This Gun For Hire [0ne sheet]. I think its going to get worse. :( --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: [MOPO] FA: 1,998 posters in Parts III IV of our end-of- year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza ending 12/30 1/1! To: mop...@sol03.american.edu Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 1:50 PM * eMoviePoster.com's End-of-Year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza is half over, but you STILL have 1,998 one-sheets to bid on ending 12/30 1/1!* One-sheets are the most popular size movie poster, and we have been consigned many thousands of them, and we have not been able to keep up with auctioning them, so we are holding this end-of-the-year event (which we hope will become an annual event!), as a way to help us catch up on auctioning the one-sheets we have been consigned (and you will find lots and lots of excellent titles contained within the thousands we are auctioning). With so many posters being sold in such a short time, there is a certainty that there will be many deals, and likely some real steals, even on better titles! We will be auctioning a total of 3,996 folded one-sheets spread over four auctions from 12/16 to 1/1 with *NO *duplication between the four auctions (there may be a few posters from the same titles, but they are different styles, or one is a re-release, or one is an international version, etc)! * IMPORTANT NOTICE! *Because these auctions close during the week of the Christmas holiday and the week of the New Year's holiday, some of our staff will be away on vacation, and we imagine so will some of our buyers! This is also a *VERY *busy time at the Post Office and UPS, with many people sending last minute holiday gifts. So, * PLEASE KNOW THAT IT IS FINE WITH US IF YOU WAIT TO PAY FOR YOUR PURCHASES FROM ANY OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THIS One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza UNTIL AFTER THE FINAL PART CLOSES ON JANUARY 1st * (although we ask that you please pay for your purchases promptly right after the last set of auctions closes, as we will be drowning in packages, and will need to get them sent!). This waiting until the last auction closes is especially valuable to those of you who are likely to purchase from more than one part of the auction, because then we can send all those purchases together in a single package, thus saving you a lot of shipping cost! * Please be understanding of our having reduced staff during this holiday time, which may mean we take a little longer to answer e-mails or send orders.* -- * Register for our Auctions* *Over 4,518 movie paper collectors have registered to bid in our auctions, but if you are one of the few movie paper collectors who have not yet registered to bid on our site, go HEREhttp://auctions.emovieposter.com/Registration.tafto do so. * You need to register separately for our auctions on our own site, because the auctions are managed by an auction software company, and you need to create your own user ID and password (of course, your ID and password from any other auction site won't work in our auctions!). It only takes a couple of minutes to do, and it is a one time thing, and thousands of our customers have already done so! -- *Your money goes further with us!* In these uncertain economic times, doesn't it make sense to spend your money where it goes the absolute furthest? We auction everything with a $1 opening bid and no reserves, so we truly sell many items for just $1 or $2 or $3 (there are other auction places that have the nerve to claim they sell their items with $1 and no reserve like we do, but they have a minimum $9 buyers premium, which means those $1, $2, and $3 posters *ACTUALLY* cost you $10, $11, and $12)! We have *NO* buyers premiums, and we only charge the actual cost of shipping (often less, when a buyer buys multiple items). We regularly give lots of great bonuses, often more valuable than the items required to qualify for them! This week, we are selling a total of *1,998 folded one-sheets *in our Tuesday and Thursday auctions (in Parts III and IV of our end-of-year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza), and it
Re: [MOPO] CREDIT CRUNCH AND MOVIE POSTER HOBBY
I'd rather have a cheap 5 foot woman At 01:22 PM 1/3/2009, Michael Greenwood wrote: As a buyer and collector, I can't see what is bad about falling prices at all! I'd love a cheap 50ft woman! That said, as a collector of exploitation titles and stuff on the sleazier side of the scale, the posters I'm watching are still popping out of my, admittedly skinflintish, budgets. The trash collecting part of this hobby seems to be staying healthy! Take care, Michael On 3-Jan-09, at 3:01 PM, gary simmons wrote: Is it just me or are things really bad? Ive been paying attention to prices and it seems at BEST,...movie posters have plateaud and at worst are crashing. I mean,.even the so called good stuff doesnt seem to be really that impressive anymore. I wonder how much one could get for an Attack of the fifty foot woman poster or This Gun For Hire [0ne sheet]. I think its going to get worse. :( --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: [MOPO] FA: 1,998 posters in Parts III IV of our end-of- year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza ending 12/30 1/1! To: mop...@sol03.american.edu Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 1:50 PM * eMoviePoster.com's End-of-Year One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza is half over, but you STILL have 1,998 one-sheets to bid on ending 12/30 1/1!* One-sheets are the most popular size movie poster, and we have been consigned many thousands of them, and we have not been able to keep up with auctioning them, so we are holding this end-of-the-year event (which we hope will become an annual event!), as a way to help us catch up on auctioning the one-sheets we have been consigned (and you will find lots and lots of excellent titles contained within the thousands we are auctioning). With so many posters being sold in such a short time, there is a certainty that there will be many deals, and likely some real steals, even on better titles! We will be auctioning a total of 3,996 folded one-sheets spread over four auctions from 12/16 to 1/1 with *NO *duplication between the four auctions (there may be a few posters from the same titles, but they are different styles, or one is a re-release, or one is an international version, etc)! * IMPORTANT NOTICE! *Because these auctions close during the week of the Christmas holiday and the week of the New Year's holiday, some of our staff will be away on vacation, and we imagine so will some of our buyers! This is also a *VERY *busy time at the Post Office and UPS, with many people sending last minute holiday gifts. So, * PLEASE KNOW THAT IT IS FINE WITH US IF YOU WAIT TO PAY FOR YOUR PURCHASES FROM ANY OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THIS One-Sheet Auction Extravaganza UNTIL AFTER THE FINAL PART CLOSES ON JANUARY 1st * (although we ask that you please pay for your purchases promptly right after the last set of auctions closes, as we will be drowning in packages, and will need to get them sent!). This waiting until the last auction closes is especially valuable to those of you who are likely to purchase from more than one part of the auction, because then we can send all those purchases together in a single package, thus saving you a lot of shipping cost! * Please be understanding of our having reduced staff during this holiday time, which may mean we take a little longer to answer e-mails or send orders.* -- * Register for our Auctions* *Over 4,518 movie paper collectors have registered to bid in our auctions, but if you are one of the few movie paper collectors who have not yet registered to bid on our site, go HEREhttp://auctions.emovieposter.com/Registration.tafto do so. * You need to register separately for our auctions on our own site, because the auctions are managed by an auction software company, and you need to create your own user ID and password (of course, your ID and password from any other auction site won't work in our auctions!). It only takes a couple of minutes to do, and it is a one time thing, and thousands of our customers have already done so! -- *Your money goes further with us!* In these uncertain economic times, doesn't it make sense to spend your money where it goes the absolute furthest? We auction everything with a $1 opening bid and no reserves, so we truly sell many items for just $1 or $2 or $3 (there are other auction places that have the nerve to claim they sell their items with $1 and no reserve like we do, but they have a minimum $9 buyers premium, which means those $1, $2, and $3 posters *ACTUALLY* cost you $10, $11, and $12)! We have *NO* buyers premiums, and we only charge the actual cost of shipping (often less, when a buyer buys multiple items). We regularly give lots of great bonuses, often more valuable than the items required to qualify for them! This week, we are selling a total of *1,998 folded one-sheets *in our Tuesday and Thursday auctions (in Parts
