Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
At 01:01 PM 8/21/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote: I had not looked over these listings for quite some time, but after all this talk I just looked them over and I am amazed just how many people there are playing this wacky game. I know eBay is giving free listings, but does this really help anyon

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I had not looked over these listings for quite some time, but after all this talk I just looked them over and I am amazed just how many people there are playing this wacky game. I know eBay is giving free listings, but does this really help anyone? Many of the items are inflated by a factor of ten

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Claude Litton
A few weeks ago a new seller (I wont mention his name because he was very polite in his reply to me, rather than the usual rude reply from these high listing characters) and I asked him if he was serious about selling his posters. The reason was that I was serious about buying one of his but

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
At 06:37 AM 8/21/2010, Claude Litton wrote: Bruce Ebay is not the only one in the world "insanely greedy". All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of "insaane" prices. These prices do not help the movie poster

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Greg
...and the insanely priced stuff never sells. Ever. Those in the know are too hip to pay the obscenely bloated asking price for those titles, and those NOT in the know...well, heck, they don't give a rat's ass. It's like a pissing contest to see which dealer can ask the stupidest price on a giv

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Claude Personally I think those insane prices make the hobby look like a complete joke. The same thing happens when a poster "sells" for a huge price, and then can't find a bidder at a third of that price. Bruce On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM, wrote: > *Bruce* > ** > *Ebay is not the only o

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Claude Litton
Bruce Ebay is not the only one in the world "insanely greedy". All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of "insaane" prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. Claude

Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!

2010-08-21 Thread Glenn Taranto
Bruce, Let's face it. Regardless of eBay's practices it was only a matter of time that you'd see it would be in your best interest to run as fast as you could from eBay and start your own site. You've been ahead of the curve from the beginning of the movie poster auction phenomenon and conti