--------------------------------------- At 2:09 AM -0600 3/19/05, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
..OR... one could bid on all the other auctions out there that have NO BUYER'S PREMIUM and save 15% or 20% or whatever...
The posters I'm looking for are rarely available elsewhere on ebay or mopobid. And when they do occasionally appear, more often than not the starting bids are more than I have paid with heritage, even including the bp. An auction with an advanced starting bid isn't an auction, it's just a For Sale ad. Which is fine, as long as everyone understands that. But since posters have no true intrinsic value, like many I prefer bidding in a true auction, thereby knowing that there's at least one other person out there who's willing to pay (nearly) as much as I am. Or often, more.
Hershenson is the only ebayer to consistently offer the high-end 50s sci-fi material that I covet as true auctions, i.e. with starting bids well below the current generally accepted value of each piece. And no one does this on mopobid, as far as I can tell. From my perspective, the sellers have to be there FIRST, with great stuff at low opening bids, or the buyers will not show up or bid in significant numbers.
And as far as hershenson vs heritage goes, in my experience, prices realized have been pretty much a draw, even factoring in the heritage bp. For example, I picked up one heritage poster two days ago for $375 at the hammer, so, $431.25 with bp. The same poster, in very similar backed condition, is at $406 now in the current hershenson auction, with 3 days to go. It will almost certainly close for substantially more than I paid, bp or no bp. Or consider Cat People. Bruce got $12100 for one last December. Condition issues aside, the heritage onesheet went for $10000, or $11500 with bp. The presence or absence of a bp should be a minor consideration for the buyer, a simple calculation to do, and not a matter of national security or moral outrage.
big-buck, high-quality, high-end sellers). For some reason Heritage seems to be able to operate on a completely different playing field using a completely different set of rules and expectations than those which people expect all other on-line sellers to operate by.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with this, as well. Heritage isn't the only auction house to arrange for ebayers to participate in their live auctions in real time; not by a long shot. Go to eBay Live sometime and check out the schedule of upcoming auctions; it's as long as your arm, all kinds of stuff from many different live auctioneers, and almost all including a stipulated buyer's premium. Heritage may be the only one that routinely deals in posters, but they hardly occupy a unique position in ebay's business model. In fact, one could argue that heritage actually discourages participation through ebay, due to the additional 5% bp they tack on to ebay-based winning bids. Some eBay Live auctioneers just charge their standard bp with no additional fees.
RK
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