----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 4:44
PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] STOP
Weird. I sent this message to MOPO on Tuesday morning, August 1... but
for some reason it is only just now showing up on the list early Friday
morning, August 4... anyway, this thing was timely when it was
written...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:21
Subject: Re: [MOPO] STOP
Toochis,
I was waiting for someone to ask. I had a great time on Movie Poster Bid
while the Special Event Auctions were closing this weekend. Turns out a
last-minute technical glitch kept the sniper program from being available, so
you had to bid at the last second the old-fashioned way and I enjoyed the
excitement of zipping around from auction to auction, trying to slip in that
last-second bid and snatch a nice item. And I managed to snag quite a few
quality sci-fi posters at good prices. But nobody was really stealing
anything, as there was a real fury of bidding all day on Sunday, and from what
Rich tells me, MPB realized about $30,000 in sales over the weekend! That's
easily the best single day... or week... or month... that MPB has ever
had. It's a testament to Rich's determination to bring the site up
to the next level. He's done a great job in just 5 months, to stage
an auction of this quality and pull in $30,000 worth of sales.
The final sales figure could have been maybe $20,000 higher, except for
there were a fair amount of items with reserves... not my favorite thing...
but those with reasonable reserves actually had them met and even bid up from
there. But some of those hidden reserves looked to me... based on the bids I
saw and reserves still not being met... well, some reserves seemed
quite a bit too high. I think doing that is self-defeating for sellers
and only serves to frustrate bidders when they bid a nice item up to a
very reasonable price and the page is still saying "reserve not met."
Once again I want to point out the obvious to the sellers who have read
this far: If you are going to set your reserve to high-retail, you shouldn't
even bother putting the item up for auction! Just leave it in your store or on
your website with the retail price tacked on for all of us to see. Don't put
it up for a so-called "auction" that isn't really an auction (because
you're not going to take less than high-retail for it, no matter how many bids
it gets). When you do this, you make us play this stupid guessing game which
no one wins because most people are NOT... repeat NOT going to pay high-retail
for most items at most auctions. What's the point? For all but the rarest
items, if you want to pay high-retail you don't have to screw around with
bidding on a auction -- you just go to someone's website or eBay store and pay
the retail price for the damn thing.
So, in line with this subject thread, I do wish some sellers
would STOP playing these frustrating high-hidden-reserve mind games with
the bidders. The purpose of a reserve is to protect yourself in a reasonable
fashion against having to sell something at a giveaway price -- it is not
meant to guarantee you a high-retail price at auction. They're called
auctions, you know, not retail sales events. If you don't want to hold out the
possibility to the bidders of getting something at a genuine buy or
at least low-retail price, then don't call it an auction... just
put the item up on your site with a For Sale sign on it -- and the
price clearly marked -- and stop wasting our time.
Whoopee... I can say stuff like that now that I'm not running MPB
anymore! C'mon, you sellers, keep on paying your rising eBay fees if you
insist, but commit at least some of your time and inventory to MPB and stop
screwin' around! Those sellers who did it right this weekend at MPB are
dividing up the 30 grand in sales among themselves even as you read this. You
could have been one of them.
JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 19:12
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fw: [MOPO] STOP
How did people do on the Movieposterbid
auction?
Toochis
Walter Reuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think we were better off when we were
commenting on all those fabulous six sheets that Kirby McDaniel has for
George Arliss remakes before this detour into non-movie poster
territory.
Walter
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Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:43 PM
Subject: [MOPO] STOP
OK, back to movie posters.
Kirby McDaniel
MovieArt Original Film Posters
P.O. Box 4419
Austin TX 78765-4419
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