You gotta love when auction houses do something so unbelievably stupid -
such as force ALL out-of-town bidders to arrange for a 3rd party to pick up
their items, take them to a shipper and ship them for them. A stupid rule
like that guarantees that virtually no movie poster collector will actually
bid on any of the auctions. Which should make for some decent bargains.
And, you really have to wonder about the people running this auction (as
well as some of the other movie poster auctions). If I was running an
auction of $xxx,xxx worth of movie posters, I don't know about you, but the
first thing I'd do - is find out where all the movie poster
collectors/dealers go (ie. MOPO, NSFGE, etc...) and LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THE
AUCTION!!! I don't know how many auctions have passed without a word from
the organizers here... That's just sheer incompetence... It's like they
don't want any collectors to bid. If I was a consignor of one of those
auctions, I'd be pretty pissed...
Cheers,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Michaels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Ritchies Auction
Craig:
I do not know of the Ritchies Auction House that YOU are talking about,
BUT the
Ritchies Auction of Movie Posters is in TORONTO this next Saturday and is
a
VERY WELL ESTABLISHED and WELL KNOWN Movie Poster Auction formerly
associated
with The Toronto Film Festival. Mike Orlando of The Hollywood Canteen in
Toronto runs it and is a very well known and reputable dealer, known to
many of
the more established people in this business. Please go to
www.Ritchies.com
for more REAL INFORMATION about this auction before spreading rumors of no
authority.
Dennis Michaels
www.RareHollywood.com; www.RarePoster.com ;www.RareDVD.com ;
www.RareVideo.com
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Ritchie's Auction is a large industrial auction house in Vancouver, which
has
over the years expanded world-wide and is publically-traded, but I doubt
it has
enough expertise in paper collectibles to give comfort to an experienced
collector. Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: David Kuspa
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Ritchies Auction
Wow, I didn't see that one. It's in very poor shape. "Condition:
A???!!" RED
FLAG.
I'll pass on this auction.
-_David
on 10/28/06 6:43 PM, Sean Linkenback at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:>>
From: David Kuspa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Does anyone have experience with Ritchies Auctions in Canada?
>
> I would be extremely careful with this auction unless I was attending
in
> person. It is quite obvious that a majority of images are NOT of the
posters
> they are selling, and then the grading on the items they do have real
images
> of appears to be horrible. Look at the Invasion of the Body
Snatchers
lobby
> set for example that is graded A-. It has cards with pieces missing
and
tape
> stains. How in the world do you get an A- out of this? With the
super-
steep
> buyers premium, plus having to arrange your own 3rd party shipping,
this
is
> one I would definitely avoid.
>
> Sean
>
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