For the married folks out there. If you bid out a poster at 1000.00, but the checking account is missing 1200, is your spouse going to think you paid 1000 or 1200 :)
Paid = cost to own, has nothing to do with being a dealer or a collector. -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirby McDaniel Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 5:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] O.k....Where do you stand? Funny, but when I pay for that poster it seems like that was the price to me. Lock, stock and barrel. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:40 PM, martin s wrote: > FINALLY, someone who gets it! > > Thanks Craig, that's it exactly... The sales price of the poster is > the $ amount when the auctioneer says "SOLD". Everything added after > that is a fee, tax, or shipping charge. > > As you said, it breaks down into collectors and dealers. Dealers need > to roll all of those extra expenses into the total price paid, > however, that is NOT the price that the poster SOLD for. > > If I paid 10K for a poster, 2k for BP, 825. for tax, and 100. for > shipping, My total paid is $12,925, but the "sale price" of the poster > is still 10K. Everything else is fees, taxes and other charges. > > Best wishes, > > M > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:03:14 -0700 >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] O.k....Where do you stand? >> To: [email protected] >> >> At 04:51 AM 7/13/2008, Roland Lataille wrote: >>> I just won a one sheet Cinerama roadshow Circus World poster from >>> Heritage for $60 plus $11.70 for BP. I would say I paid $71.70 for >>> it. I think I got a pretty good deal as I was willing to pay a lot >>> more for it. You don't see this Cinerama roadshow poster on Ebay >>> very often. >> >> >> Seems to me there's a difference between the "sales price" (i.e. >> what the >> poster sold for) and the cost of acquiring it. If I buy a poster -- >> or anything >> -- from someone in person (or from someone from whom I can pick it >> up) >> there is no shipping fee. That doesn't mean the item sold for less. >> It means there were no added fees. >> >> While a Buyer's Premium is something I would have to pay if I bought >> a poster through an auction house, it is a fee that I need to be >> willing to pay but isn't truly part of the poster's "price", no more >> than sales tax, or money later spent to fix up, linenback, or frame a >> poster. Those may be part of what I need or want to spend on the >> poster, but they aren't part of the price. >> >> Frankly, saying it is sounds more like dealers trying to find ways to >> push up the price of a poster. "It sold for $1000 plus a 20% BP, so >> the real price is $1200. Next time, someone should pay $1150 plus a >> BP of 15% so the value will be $1440." It's a fee on a fee on a fee >> that people are using to artificially inflate the value. >> >> It is, I'll concede, more accurate to say the *cost* of the poster >> was the auction price plus all other expenses incurred. But that >> doesn't make it the value of the poster. >> >> Craig. >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Craig Miller Wolfmill Entertainment >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List >> >> Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L >> >> The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > _________________________________________________________________ > The i'm Talkaton. Can 30-days of conversation change the world? > http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_ChangeWorld > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
