Re: [MOPO] About reporters, Hershenson and other things...

2008-06-07 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
Bruce is of course correct, as we have noted privately. The interesting thing about this "disinformation" and " non-specific"  is that one can only wonder whether the reporter's paper/media outlet (and the relevant news sources that picked it up, including the influential Financial Review here

Re: [MOPO] Trusted names for new posters

2008-06-08 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
Saul - Simple advice. Buy as early as you can into the campaign. Even so-called trusted dealers buy from secondary sellers who top up stock from those who sell (knowingly or unknowingly) fakes and repos from wholesalers who sell both real and repro posters. And this is from me, a dealer who ONLY s

Re: [MOPO] How much time/money do you spend on eBay NOW, compared to a few years ago?

2008-06-09 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
Increasingly less and for quite some time. Buying, extremely rarely. Browsing, almost never. As a seller we do most of our business through our website and private sales. They are a business, just like PP is part of their business, and so of course they have to make a profit for their shareholders

Re: [MOPO] How much time/money do you spend on eBay NOW, compared to a few ye...

2008-06-09 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
Claude's response made me wonder about something else. How many of us have spouses/partners who are equally interested in our poster collecting interests? How many just tolerate it? How many have no idea how much gets spent on it, and how many collectors hide what they spend on it? Over the year

Re: [MOPO] Proof or just untrimmed???

2008-06-09 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
And the real use of a proof, is that it can be checked by all the people needed to check that all colours are correct, all spelling is correct, all contractual placements of names and font sizes are correct. all the proofs I received for posters I had designed for both theatrical and video r

Re: [MOPO] Proof or just untrimmed???

2008-06-09 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
-0700, Roger Kim wrote > Oh, you're the guy from Australia! Thanks for clarifying. I thought we had a > NEW Mopoer named Philip Charles Edwards, since that is how your name recently > started showing up. I was thinking you must be some real distinguished > gentleman. Not that you

Re: [MOPO] Here's one place EB and PP didn't quite get what it wanted....

2008-06-12 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/accc-thwarts-ebay-paypal-plan/2008/06/12/1212863822348.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List

Re: [MOPO] Scott - MoPo

2008-06-27 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
Just a small point, as David makes some good ones here what I don't understand is how is talking about a movie " off topic". If there wasn't a movie, there would not be a movie poster for it. Interestingly, I was talking about this subject with a fellow dinosaur and one-time business partne

Re: [MOPO] FA eBay auctions - Disney lobby cards, arthouse one sheets

2006-08-27 Thread Philip Charles Edwards
Hi All, Twenty four hours left on a selection of Disney animation lobby cards, arthouse and indie one sheets. As always all shipping costs stated on the item pages and we'll combine shiping from our eBay auctions, eBay store and from our website sales at www.cinemarts.com Thanks for looking,