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Tom,
Did you get a figure on what the final weight of the package was? It sounds
like $200 for second-day shipping was an incredibly good price. By the way, I
lost the link to your auction on the Millennium Falcon -- what was the final
bid?
-- JR
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From: Tom Martin
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 23:27
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fs On ebay- a sellers story. the force is with
us.. Flacon Star wars ship and it made it in One piece!!! we about died when we saw a person in Japan had one the Giant display ship... needless t say we hoped a Local person wouldjust show up woth a Truck and pick up.. I sold this for my son a devout Star wars Fanatic!! tI mean advanced Collector..:) anyway after I convinced Him to help me pack it we spent a Night and part of a day packing it.... we had to make a 6 foot box x 5 foot and be able to move it outthe door... and we had to ship By truck.. well the Guy had us ship to the states to hi parents so we had to get rates... I was quoted up to 1000.00 by most shippers However we Found fed ex frieght the best at like 200.00 they had it there in one day.. and they were nice to deal with even the driver was helpful and Polite.. we told them what it was and they were extra carefull. sohow did we pack it??? well we used 1/8 inch foam rolls an wrapped it all around like a Mummy then we used Rolls of bubblle wrap we made so many revolutions around it with streatch wrap and foam we both became sick from vertigo that we had to wait until next day to finish.. then we made a Box out of four Boxes tahat we used flat corrogated to brace and we used air pillows..( look like ballons ) to fill all voids we setthe ship om 4x4 cradles of styrofoam and then strech wrapped the entire Box and labeled it like it was part of a touring Smithsonian exhibit ... then we just hoped that it would get there without being shattered or drooped or run over by a Forlift,, But Today... the Buyer gave us a Nice feedback and sais it arrived fine... I told my son wait until he spent the Money Just in case! anyways... I feel we can ship about anything after that........... man..................How I like small parcels.. I hope to have many more Goodies on Ebay soon and thanks For all the support and business From Mopoers and B-list people also... the Gift I plan to Give to Mopo and B list is my design for a Poster shooting easel stand... a few years back John Kisch and I were talking about How it would be cool if there was a frame availible to shoot posters on Like a lithographeres vacuum frame.. he was looking for one.. manystat camers had them to talke pics and halftones in Litho shops.. by the wayPeter Jackson of King Kong was a lithographer.... anyways,,, I made a prototype of the Poster shooter and it works great,,, I was planning on selling them but then I got sidetracked by having a Life meltdown episode...:) so I thoght why not just tell you all how to make them and then you can all have a easier time of selling posters.. the premice is simple.. a frame holds the poster in place by vacuum... ( useing a common shop vac as the vac source... with a Foot pedal you activate the suction and it holds and then when turned off releases the poster... the catch is getting the right suction so as to not damage posters..I dont reccomend for fragile titles..But if you have 1000s of enamel coated stock 70s and 80s.. this think will crank it out as fast as you can click a camera... you can get all the parts at Home depot... and it will cost under 100.00 I will take a Photo ofmy cobbled unit protoype... and I wil even be using it when I do posters in the future on ebay,,, this unitallows you to float the posters in space.. against a Background.. two lights are used at45 degree axsis to the art. Its bassicall a stat camera setup just lighter and without a glass overlay.. anyway when I get time Illtake some Photos and share it with anyone that wants to make one... with experimantation with baffles it can work for magazines, stills, about anya pape art...... I havent used mine much as I am Lazy... :) But onece i start shooting Posters I will Unless some wize MOPER BUYS my Bulk lots of 60 70 and 80s posters out :) Happy new year Folks best, Tom Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
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