Come on, Freeman.... you know you want to slab one of those wonderful 24
sheets you have :-)
Rick
www.ilovefilms.com
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Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:09:44 AM
Subject: [MOPO] SLABBING SHOULD BE VIGOROUSLY REJECTED
Slabbing.
Bruce has offered up this subject so I'll bite.
Why slabbing for lobby cards? I am to understand for coins, comics and trading
cards, there existed a pervasive malaise in accurate condition reveal. With
internet sales exploding, for comics, with multiple pages, a lot of sins were
frequently overlooked and it was impacting the industry. So if I recall
correctly, Heritage hosted a major comic auction and virtually all the items
were slabbed and results were impressive Slabbing established its foothold.
Now the company(ies) (are their still two?) who grade and slab are a
business.....and expansion of their supposed impartial grading to other paper
formats is critical for their long-term foothold into the future. So just
because they claim their is a problem are we as sellers just going to drop to
our knees and rejoice that the Calvary is here to purge the cancer of
egregious inaccuracies in the sales of lobby cards?
For comics, fine, there existed a serious problem in accurate condition and
grading within their sales universe and most agree it saved the biz. But I do
not see anywhere that kind of skullduggery or mis-representation with the
majority of auction houses or sellers present regarding movie material. So why
jack up one's "cost of goods" with the additional fees for grading and
slabbing,
never mind additional insured postage.
So if any auction house tries to instigate........I cannot shout loud enough to
not bid.........tell your clients to not bid as well. If the prices don't
deliver watch how fast they drop that idea. Our business is not broke,
occasionally a tweek here or there is necessary but otherwise I think most
people are happy with how sales are conducted. If they are not they will go
to another that delivers to their expectations. Accepting the concept of
slabbing is akin to saying "were too indifferent and stupid to police our
industry .......we need third party intervention.......take our hard earned
monies ........we're lobby card lemmings without conscience or backbone.
And besides, I like how I frame my lobby cards and window cards and that
doesn't include a a half inch thick rectangular slab with bar scans stuck in
plain view more appropriate for display on retail racks for expensive Monster
Cables not treasured lobby cards.
SLABBING= Irrelevant, unnecessary, an imposition, costly and demeaning.
freeman fisher
8601 west knoll drive #7
west hollywood, ca
90069
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