Richard:
Boy, you think THIS group is rough? Over on the Style-B poster group, we
have a lottery and sacrifice one member per month. (We choke them to
death by making them swallow a one sheet from A CHORUS LINE. Heaven
forbid we should use something valuable as our instrument of death!)
But seriously, Rich...yes, the gang here can be intimidating, and there
are indeed some smart cookies in this bunch. (You'll notice that I don't
post much when the alpha dogs are snarling. I play music for a living,
and I need all my fingers.)Sometimes, the B.S. and the plethora of ads
get pretty thick, but that's when I hit that little button marked
"Delete" . You will glean nuggets of knowledge you can't get anywhere
else if you stick with MOPO. It's a great place to be. I've been here
for almost ten years, and I'm still hanging. Have fun!
Greg Douglass
PS-Don't be TOO nice to Bruce, however. It makes him nervous.
Richard Del Belso wrote:
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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