I want to
let all readers of this forum know of the really excellent group of 744
mostly oversized movie paper items (from 17 different countries, with a
large number each of U.S. 6-sheets, British Quads and Argentineans) which
I added to eBay on Saturday, February 25th, starting at around 7 PM CST,
as 10 day auctions, ending Tuesday night, March 7th. Why are these 10 day
auctions, rather than my usual 7 day auctions, and why did I not add any
items on the 21st, ending on the 25th?
Two reasons. First, we had done so much auctioning the past few weeks
that we needed to take a break so we can catch up on sending all the
orders. Not only did we sell LOTS of material, but one week was mostly
linenbacked posters (that require careful packing in our heavyweight
tubes), and one week was mostly very oversized posters (that require
large flat packages) and then we topped it off with selling over 6,000
lobby cards in over 1,320 lots, so those weeks require lots of time spent
carefully packing and shipping those many hundreds of purchases, and of
course none of the buyers wants us to rush packing or sending THEIR
order!
Second,
our office manager, Angie Fish is taking a well-deserved one week
vacation from the 27th to the 3rd, and she is so integral to our
operation here that I definitely did not want any auctions ending while
she was gone! So skipping a week meant she was here for the auctions
that ended the 21st, and will be back at work when the next ones end on
March 7th. And as long as I was going to be missing a week anyway, I
went ahead and listed the current items three days early, as 10 day
auctions, because there are a lot of really great items in this current
group of mostly oversized items, and they are very deserving of having
an extra three days to be seen by all collectors.
What are oversized items? They are anything that doesnt fit in our
standard 11 x 14 mailers, or which cant be rolled and sent in our
standard 32 and under tubes. Two weeks ago, we sold most of the VERY
oversized items we had here, mostly 14 x 22 window cards, and Italian
and French one and two-panels, which measure only slightly smaller than a
window card when folded in the usual way. This week, we sell mostly the
slightly oversized items, like 6-sheets, British Quads and Argentineans,
and also a lot of odds and ends items. We had some window cards and
French and Italian posters that missed the auction two weeks ago, so we
included those as well. Note that a very few of these items CAN be sent
in our regular mailers (perhaps because they were folded an extra time),
but it still makes more sense to list them here, along with all the other
posters of the same size that were not folded an extra time. Of course,
when it comes to packing the orders, we will make sure to pack everything
as economically as possible, as long as it doesnt at all mean increasing
the chances of damage.
What is in
these current auctions? A lot of really rare and desirable items! The
auction starts out with 15 really cool James Bond posters, including a
very rare Thunderball 6-sheet! Next comes four REALLY special paperbacked
posters (a Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman window card and three nice
half-sheets, including Gun Crazy), then a bunch of posters from a variety
of countries, then a bunch of really rare English one-sheets,
three-sheets six-sheets, and some ultra-rare English door-panels
(including many "country of origin" titles!). Next comes U.S.
door panels, subway posters, and a bus stop poster and a couple of
tri-folded three-sheets. Then there are seven 24-sheets (billboard
posters, around 9 feet by 20 feet!), and three French 24-sheets! Next
there are more French posters, some Australian three-sheets, and a
selection of 40x60s, 30x40s, and rare two-sheets. Next are some special
U.S. posters, various Italian posters (including a complete set of 12
original photobustas from The Bicycle Thief in the original envelope(!),
some oversized still sets, and some scarce jumbo lobby cards, and some
window cards. The auction wraps up with around 175 six-sheets (including
a SPECTACULAR original 1940 One Million B.C., and two 1915 titles with
incredible graphics!), 60 British Quads (including many "country of
origin" titles!), and over 100 Argentinean posters!
A really high percentage of these items are ones that you almost surely
have never seen before, and a lot are likely one of a handful of
surviving examples, and some are likely the ONLY surviving example! But
don't take MY word for this! Just look over the all items offered and see
for yourself. You will quickly see there are lots of really
top-of-the-line TRULY RARE items!
But since
every single one of these items started at just 99 cents with no reserve
there will be surely some real bargains, and maybe a few outright
"steals"! The bidding has just started a couple of days ago, so
there is no telling how high (or low!) these items will go, but as always
in my NO reserve there will likely be a fair number of items that end up
at ridiculously low prices. But YOU can't get those great deals if you
aren't bidding! AND YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE! If you place a bunch of low
bids but only get one or two items, then you are sure to be happy, for
you will have gotten some really good deals. Even if get nothing, you
will only be out a little of your time, and no more (since this is one
major auction you don't need to travel to, or even leave your computer
for!).
REMEMBER
THAT IN THESE AUCTIONS (as in all my online auctions), THERE ARE NO
OUTRAGEOUS BUYER'S PREMIUMS! Other auctions charge between 15% and 20%
EXTRA, for no other reason than to line their pockets with your money. In
these auctions, what you bid is what you pay, plus the actual cost of
shipping the item to you, plus $2 for packaging materials. If you have
ever bought from any other "major" auction company, you are
probably still stunned by their buyers premiums and by how much
"handling" fees they packed onto their shipping charges, but we
never do that!
I know it
can be difficult to look over this many great items, but remember you can
use our exclusive Current Auction Image Gallery (which is located at
http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/currentauctions.php ) which has
large thumbnails of all our eBay items, and links from each item to the
actual eBay auction. Best of all, this gallery is searchable! You will
really find this a great benefit if you want to look at all of our items
this week! You can simply browse all of our current items by viewing the
images in this gallery (40 to a page, but you can set it to display 20
items to a page or up to 100 items a page, depending on the speed of your
Internet connection) in our number order, or you can use our search to
only see thumbnails of your specific search terms! NOTE THAT EACH ITEM IN
THIS GALLERY HAS A RECENT BID PRICE LISTED, AND THE PRICES ARE UPDATED AT
LEAST ONCE A DAY! THIS GALLERY CAN BE SORTED BY PRICE (high to low or low
to high), WHICH IS A GREAT HELP TO THOSE OF YOU WANTING TO JUST FOCUS ON
THE BEST (or least expensive) ITEMS! I urge all of you to go to our
gallery this week and at least glance over all the large thumbnails, EVEN
IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN BIDDING ON THESE ITEMS! Why do I say
this? Because it is fun to window shop when you are looking at this
well-organized gallery, especially given all the many wonderful items we
are selling this week (it is likely many of them will have images you
have never seen before)!
Be sure to
check out these 744 mostly oversized movie paper items (from 17
different countries, with a large number each of U.S. 6-sheets, British
Quads and Argentineans) sometime before they end Tuesday night, March
7th, starting at around 7 PM CST (either by going to
http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/currentauctions.php or by using
the link from my HOME page,
http://www.emovieposter.com or
by looking me up under my eBay user ID, emovieposter.com). Good luck on
whatever you may bid on!
I HAVE NOT
YET DECIDED WHAT SPECIAL BONUS OFFER TO MAKE JUST FOR MEMBERS OF MY
E-MAIL CLUB (just under 3,400 members!) WHO PURCHASE AT LEAST A SET
NUMBER OF THIS WEEKS ITEMS, BUT I WILL DECIDE DURING THE WEEK AND SEND
IT TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS NEXT SUNDAY (the 5th). But it surely will be a
really good offer (I like to make the best offers on the best weeks, and
I think this week is really first-rate. So know that you have a LOT of
incentive to join the club (if you are not already a member) and then to
buy a bunch of items this week, because I will be giving away some
excellent prizes to those members of the club who buy a to-be-determined
number of multiple items.
Why not
join the club today? You'll at most receive ONE e-mail a week, and your
e-mail address is NEVER given out to anyone, and you have a great chance
to win great prizes, and you can quit anytime! Just reply to this e-mail
with "Sign me up in the club" in the subject line, and you will
be a member!
BRUCE HERSHENSON P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 phone 417 256 9616,
fax 417 257 6948, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], website
http://www.emovieposter.com
eBay user ID emovieposter.com
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