Dear Bruce and alll other Mopoers;
I am one of your silent members, who chooses not to be silent any more. i am
a relatively new member...I guess I've been getting messages for at least
two months, maybe three...long enough to have experienced the Claude/jeannie
flap and the political diatribes, and the mourning of Glenn Ford.
I am a collector, not a dealer...but like alll obsessive collectors, i will
soon have more stuff than i can handle and will want to sell some of it. At
present, i am not emotionally ready for that, nor am i knowledgeable enough
about the pitfalls of selling, so the MoPo comments are quite an education
to me. Reading (listening?) to all the complaints about "Fleabay" has really
been an eye-opener. I imagine one's experience of E-bay is quite different
for a seller than for a collector.
I am writing today because i want Bruce (and Scott) to know that I am one of
the list members that has NOT had a problem receiving the posts of other
members. Everything has been coming through to me loud and clear.
I also want to say that i agree with most of what Bruce has been saying, and
also with the remarks made by Mike Davis on Sept. 10th.
I am not so sure that MoPo members are declining, but there may be many out
there who, like me, are afraid to pipe up because the rest of you are a)
very smart, and b) sometimes quite argumentative...and intimidating. and
what's so bad about sitting on the sidelines, watching the giants duke it
out, while every now and then picking up a nugget of important information?
At one point a few months ago i had thought that i would unsubscribe. You
see, i have no other "chat room" or movie fan list experience but this one
and I had no way of knowing that this was the 'genteel" group. Well, it
didn't seem all that genteel to me, but genteel or not, it's the group where
some of the brightest and most experienced collectors and dealers chat, and
so i'm staying. Just dont try to tell me what to think or what to do. I
realize that I can be active or passive and still get a lot out of my
membership on this list. i want to stay because there are many like-minded
people and because we can learn from each other's experiences. Oh, and I
often check out the leads sent out by dealers about stuff they've got for
sale, either privately or on MoviePosterBid or on E-bay.
One last thought...I really love it when John Reid shares his RKO posters
with the rest of us (terrific exhibit), or Dario Casadei sends out photos of
his magnificent 40x60's from the '30's. those things remind us of why we
collect. thanks, guys.
Best regards,
Richard Del Belso
PS to Bruce: i think you are amazing!!
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From: Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dropping MoPo membership
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:27:53 -0500
THIS IS WHAT DRIVES ME CRAZY ABOUT MOPO! Yesterday afternoon I sent two
e-mails to MoPo. One (a FA one) seemed to be distributed right away, and I
saw it on the MoPo website a short time later. The other (which is copied
below) did NOT seem to be distributed, did NOT show on the MoPo website,
and I have seen no replies to it. So DID IT GET DISTRIBUTED OR NOT, and how
does on know the difference? Both were sent from the same computer minutes
apart, so I can't see why they should have gone their separate ways.
Maybe Scott might want to consider switching to some other mail server.
This one seems to have lots of problems (and yes, they seem much greater of
late).
Below is the post I tried to make yesterday:
JR and Claude
I have seen your replies to my post of last night, and no others at this
point. But let me clarify that I fully agree that MoPo is far better (for
me, and obviously for you both) than the other discussion boards. MoPo
members DO stay on topic far more, are far more "genteel", have a far
greater total knowledge of the hobby, etc, etc
But that does not mean it can't get much better! I see no point in dwelling
on the past, but I suggest that some of the members might try to reach deep
into their brains for questions about MOVIE POSTERS that have puzzled them,
and then we will see if the collective knowledge of MoPo can answer them.
Things like "Did Paramount EVER make title cards?" (they did), "What did
Paramount do in place of title cards?", "Why do almost all French and
Italian posters of the past 40 years seem to be incredibly easy to find,
but ones from before that are super-hard to find?", "What WERE window cards
used for?", or any other question that might be of somewhat general
interest, but is likely NOT common knowledge.
JR asked "Bruce, as a seller who regularly sends FA messages to this list,
I don't understand your point here... are you saying sellers shouldn't send
through ads? Or that they shouldn't abuse the privilege?"
I am saying that sellers who regularly post FA or FS messages should
realize that those messages would reap FAR greater results if they weren't
mostly reaching other dealers, and that the best way to do this would be to
regularly post NON-selling e-mails in addition to their selling e-mails,
for then MoPo would attract a lot more collectors, so it would be a good
investment for those dealers. Of course, not everyone will do this. There
are always going to be some "jerks" who flood the list with FA or FS sale
e-mails and never post anything else. But most likely just about everyone
has learned to delete or block these people, so I don't think they really
matter.
Look at some of those people who are known to be members of MoPo: Sam,
Kirby, Walter, Sean, Ron, Tony, and many others. Collectively they are
hundreds of years of poster selling experience, and I doubt that the entire
rest of the world knows as much about movie posters as this group does
(offhand, the only dealers I can think of with encyclopedic knowledge of
movie paper who are NOT MoPo members are Mike Hawks and Joe Burtis, and
maybe Ken Schacter, who might well be a silent member). Yet how many times
do you see the above group of people posting? If each of them posted just a
couple of times a week with a sliver of what they know (whether answering
questions or opening subjects), MoPo would be become exponentially more of
a place that all collectors would want to be a part of.
Bruce
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