Apparently the cast spent 2 or 3 months in a Montreal studio in front of blue
and green screens and without context must have reacted like simple-minded
people do when speaking to the hearing-impaired - they shout and gesticulate
broadly. Sad really, because properly-used CGI is a valuable tool
It's an interesting discussion - and as a buyer and someone who pays lots to
have posters restored - I see a great difference between posters restored by
Dario, for instance, using the more supple canvas and those on the stiff stuff
used by other backers and that are sometimes the subject of lar
I concur with Saul's recommendation of Dario. Dario's
done nearly 50 posters for me - one sheets and Oz d/bs - to excellent effect and
prices related to the effort. Several have been reclamation projects, including
a couple old, rare items that needed much work - Quebec and Blood and Sand.
K
I agree with Phil regarding the fine people who run Capitol -
I've bought many posters from Tom and Strother and recently some stills throught
the adjunct operation and have always had excellent dealings. On that basis one
of these days I'll get a poster restored. Craig, Vancouver
- Ori
With other venues not offering the same high level of exposure
and "viewings", the cost increases that cut into net revenue have to be measured
against the "cost" of no revenue or substantially reduced revenue. Do the
(large) sellers have records of what the comparisons to pre-ebay sales are?
I would expect that the reasons include the probable
interdiction of -
- Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism often put
out under the guise of trade in war artifacts
- the trade in Nazi, fascist and Stalinist items (if not
the latter then there should be)
- illegal and restricted weaponry
S
Perhaps only a old (and dab) hand like Phil would be
aware of all the invidious minsitrations that impede the virtuous bidder's
progress to his well-deserved end (item).
Is there really much shill bidding? The last round of
discussion dealt with issues of one-bid auctions and a plethora of
There are international postal conventions to which virtually
every country with postal services belongs. If the Candian service has
introduced any new addressing requirements they are, as Bob notes, essentially
variations of those already in use. The prospect that the postal service is
turn
In regard to an associate bidding - I have little doubt that
Bruce's associate's bidding was meant for himself and not otherwise intended to
advance any ulterior agenda. However, having only been made aware of this
now, bidders can only wonder what better knowledge and information Phillip
mi
The overwhelming majority of North American TVs are NTSC
(color) format compatible only, so even with a player that can play PAL and NTSC
discs, the NTSC TV 24f/sec cannot accept PAL 25f/sec projection and the image
perpetually skips. The requirement is for a TV that has dual compatibility to
Postal money orders are treated like
cheques and must be endorsed by the payee to be cashed and if the payor wants to
find out if the MO was lost or cashed by the seller, a trace for it by the PO
can be asked for usually by filling out a trace form using the number from the
receipt /flimsy (
Combining both matters -
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang 1978, from the story by
the late, great Mordecai Richler both fine efforts, with Alex Karras as the
Hooded Fang and then remade, poorly, in 1999, perhaps because the
Hooded Fang was performed (?) by Gary Busey!
How about novels
Marty's right, The Graduate was a novel before the
movie.
Love Story was certainly a novel before the movie. Recall the
rain of negative criticism on Eric Segal - his book was lachrymose and
obtuse - but it brought us Ali - also in Goodbye, Columbus, 1969. And in the
early 70s those movie
I DUNNO BRUCE - A QUICK LOOK AT IMDB SHOWS BUCK'S ECLECTIC,
INTERESTING WRITTEN OUTPUT OVER 30 YEARS - SOME OF WHICH ARE -
To Die
For (1995) (screenplay)
The Nude Bomb (1980)
(characters)
A Star Is Born (1976)
(uncredited)
The Day of the Dolphin
(1973)
What's Up, Doc
Seems the Austin Chronicle review left a little da Vinci-like
code for the cognescenti - if you get the code it's stating that
everything in the movie is done twice-over! So M:I:III is twice as long as it
needs to be? How boring. Craig
- Original Message -
From:
Kirby
McDa
I'VE DEALT SEVERAL TIMES W INTERGALACTIC TRADING CO FOR POSTERS AND
ARTEFACTS AND ALL HAS GONE WELL. POSTERS WERE WELL PACKED. CRAIG
- Original Message -
From:
Planetbiz
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] How do y
stract problem.
Craig
- Original Message -
From:
Joseph
Bonelli
To: Craig Goebel
Cc: MOPO
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:43
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] illeteracy and mind
control
Hi, Craig, from Joe Bonelli.
You are so correct.
And it is most interesting
I suppose there'll be at least 3 more versions of the poster
all likely to be bootlegged. Fraudbusters will have a field day too looking for
the offline printing and fuzzy gaus. I locked up my originals - rolled and
folded years ago - and Dario has done great backing, but one wonders about th
Bob, (and others) a very short and therefore imprecise lesson.
Every person who contends against someone else's position, in order to be safe
from a successful law suit for libel (written) or slander (oral), must be able
to prove his/her argument with true facts from which the opinion is deri
As (mostly) a buyer on ebay and other sites, I have, on many
occasions and more than once on this posting site, decried exactly the same
problems noted by ebay.
Sellers state that shipping and handling costs are the
responsibility of the buyer. I regularly receive parcels on which the post
riginal Message -
From:
JR
To: Craig Goebel ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:52
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] EBAY AND EXCESSIVE
SHIPPING CHARGES
I agree with what Craig and others have been saying about pumped-up
"shipping and handling"
Ebay doesn't suck per se, those who do suck BIG TIME
are the people who spend their time trying to circumvent and often are
successfully circumventing the rules that are designed to ensure fairness
between sellers and buyers and their forum ebay.
How many times have I decried here the
unm
... "you'll [buyers'll] have something to squawk about" ... WE
are already squawking! And have no expectation that things'll get better
on ebay - Craig
- Original Message -
From:
Dave Rosen
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:23
PM
than what the
current ones sell for.
Todd
Feiertag/Poster City
- Original Message -
From:
Craig
Goebel
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:36
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay Buyers Will Be
Next...
What auction isn't buyer beware, viz., use your own
judgment but even that is ameliorated by fair sellers offering
unconditional refunds. So there's generally an out for buyers and
sellers avoid negative feedback, if mistakes are made.
If there's a substitute - a photo - for having to
exp
Walter, undoubtedly you are aware that the ebay process
of dropping items after 90 days after the listing ends is not entirely
accurate insofar as it is always 90 days; if you wait until the 90th day for
each item then leave negatives, there might be time left for the
seller to get back and
Glenn is one of my favourite actors. His filmography
partially noted below is a list of accomplishments that would gladden the
heart of any film goer who wants to see good work and good stories. He would
have had to have been proud. Gilda and The Blackboard Jungle sure are good. Most
of the
I saw the movie a couple months ago and enjoyed it yet again,
so yes Phil, like Andrew, I am interested in what Britons know about Witchfinder
General and Price's antipathy, that we others do not. Craig
- Original Message -
From:
Andrew Roberts
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN
It seems there are color locadinas that have no info on
them - one assumes that they served the same purpose as the smaller B&W
stills had in North American theatres - once your past the box office you don't
really need to be reminded of the name of the flick but it's still nice to see
some
I've been collecting RCMP posters, one of which is
Saskatchewan and that's a great find for me. It's in poor condition. Based on
what Dario's done to restore other old posters for me, I've given it to him. The
pix shown of Written on the Wind are representative of what Dario can do.
Craig
ok - some people are nuts for bad 50s sci-fi flix posters,
strange but true. But where are the people declaiming that their best find is
Cool Hand Luke? It is regularly the subject of intense bidding and goes for
several hundreds of dollars. Why? Virtually no other Newman than Butch/Kid sells
Ritchie's Auction is a large industrial auction house in
Vancouver, which has over the years expanded world-wide and is
publically-traded, but I doubt it has enough expertise in paper
collectibles to give comfort to an experienced collector.
Craig
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From:
If the change as Bruce suggests is to curb ebay-generated off-site deals, then
that will never happen because ebay is a market and a market by definition is
only a forum for offering and is always of limited time, goods or buyers.
People seek opportunities and will pick or make a market based o
interesting - the tie in is that the irrepressible Denny Doherty passed away
last week in Mississauga, Ontario at 67 years of age.
>From imdb - Denny Doherty was born and reared in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
>and began his musical career there in a local rock band, The Hepsters, while
>workin
If Paypal corners any more of the online payment market
everyone, particularly an individual who is more buyer than seller, is
really in trouble. The so-called resolution program is worthless when it
comes to trying to recoup payment when there is nondelivery by a big
seller. There is a more
Walter, I have seen your recent
offerings and love the Barbarella quad.
Almost all goods imported into Canada
are subject to (excise) sales tax to ensure there is a similar treatment as to
cost of goods from outside the country compared to those
bought inside the country if they are of si
I wish the statement that paypal operates in a manner designed
to recompense for nondelivery in a reasonable manner was true, but such is not
the case.
I have just gone round the mulberry bush for 2 months with
paypal trying to recoup a mere $30 for the nondelivery of a set of lobby cards
What about "shill-sniping"? And "shilly-shalling"? And
"snap-sniping"? And "snap-shilling"? Should we be afraid, be very afraid? Duke,
Vancouver
- Original Message -
From:
JR
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:35
AM
Subject: Re:
TWO THINGS ABOUT WHICH I'M NOT ENTIRELY
COMFORTABLE ARE DEALERS' STATEMENTS TO THE EFFECT THAT FOLDING INSERTS AND
1/2 SHEETS WAS "STANDARD" AND THE READY ACCEPTANCE BY BUYERS OF THAT
ALLEGATION AS PROOF OF THE TRUTH OF THE FACT ALLEGED WITHOUT SUBSTANTIATION.
IT SEEMS TO ME THE HEAVY GA
LIVE-AND-LEARN; ASK-AND-LEARN; COLLECT-AND-LEARN! THANKS FOR
THE TUTELAGE FROM ALL. CRAIG
- Original Message -
From:
JR
To: Craig Goebel ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:14
AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] the extra folds
Craig
Title: Message
THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR BAR NONE - AND WITH A MESSAGE MADE
GOOD AND PROPER - WAS "A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE" (SCANDALOUSLY UNNOMINATED FOR ANY
MAJOR AWARD: WILLIAM HURT NOTWITHSTANDING). DAVID CRONENBERG'S NOIR THRILLER
ABOUT A MAN'S PAST BECOMING HIS FUTURE AND WHICH POINTEDLY
One question that comes to mind is why have a system at all
when Bruce has essentially abandoned a grading system for describing the flaws
and providing one scalable scan of the front only (!), leaving the buyer
to imagine the back (and he can get 3X and more for Modesty Blaise than anyone
e
unless i copy the email to myself i don't get my posts -
Craig
- Original Message -
From:
Planetbiz
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:35
AM
Subject: [MOPO] Do you receive your own
MOPO messages?
I posted a message
While the concept of hidden feedback
seems antithetical to good relations among users - buyers and sellers - if you
ask these private feedback folks to see their feedback, which is there,
behind the scrim of "private", and it's not worthy of reliance then a more
informed decision can be made
It seems a bit odd for anyone who actually
has comprehensive permission to release the dvd to not have
contracted for the collorary rights like those for related packaging or to have
tried and failed to do so. I would wonder then why that seemingly obvious
element was not part of the packag
Since ebay must extract 95%+ of its revenue from (buyers via)
sellers, from their auction end amounts, having eliminated categories
regularly, why, in its obvious enlightened fiscal
self-interest, would it persist in doing so, if it
(apparently) reduces revenues? Craig, Vancouver
- Or
I recently, among many others, had dealings with a dvd and a
poster seller both of whom, like some other international sellers, hid behind
the minor flaws in the world-wide delivery systems, to both deny the receipt of
mailed payment and disavow my claim for nonreceipt of items. I
can prov
JR - I'm not being coy, just careful.
But, if some members of the list buy dvds they can ask me
and by-the-way dvdforfun611 has been booted.
If some members buy Turkish posters, then I'd be
pleased to advise them.
Interestingly, anyone thinking of buying from
Some months ago in Bruce's club email, there were consensus
lists of better and apparently less-so poster sellers, the total for each
of which was about 10 or so. I have been looking at posters for 3 1/2 years on
ebay mostly and elsewhere and there seem (to me) to be far fewer than the
numbe
Title: Message
Wondering what has happened to the items that I have purchased from US
buyers in the last month or so, I was about to initiate contact with each of
them who used USPS to see whether there was a prospective delivery time / date.
Before doing so I was made privy to the following
I commiserate with John and am glad it was a small amount
lost. I have done business with him successfully, despite the vagaries of
delivery. I am delighted to deal with John and other topline poster sellers who
care about the transaction in all its phases and their customers. When things
so
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