Rich and All,
An interesting topic you throw out to us, and one that will depend on a few
factors. Some who don't embrace "lesser-end" material might say that all of
these are destined for .99-ville or less. Those of us who have always
collected 70s material with a zeal that makes the thought of a 99 cent Laughing
Policeman, Walking Tall or Thieves Like Us equitable to a slot machine win will
say that your entire list contains enviable bargains (and thanks for the few
that I won this week!)
Rich, I think your personal statement as copied below sums it all up perfectly:
"For my own sales I can say what sells for 99 cents one week can sell for $20
or $30 a month later, and it also goes in the reverse"
I've bought and/or sold probably 2/3 of the titles on your list over the
years for considerably more than .99, but on any given week, who knows what
will happen? Several .99 auctions I've tried will result in unsold items which
will end up selling later for more. Suffice to say that your bidders all got
some fine bargains for whatever reason they purchased them: star, image, genre
or just the old completist bug that haunts many of us collectors.
I think that as you said, any of those might sell easily for 10-30 from a site
or store (and the buyer might still feel like they got a good deal even then on
a few of them.) Of course, some might not as quickly as others, and others may
sit unsold til the end of time, but at the end of the day, I think that just
about everything movie poster-wise is indeed worth more than .99 (except maybe
those mini-giveaways that proliferate the multiplexes.) But thanks to you and
Bruce, regularly willing to offer material with that starting price, collectors
will continue to benefit with some real bargains. What the titles in question
will be from week to week, however, will likely continue to change as
frequently as this Louisiana weather.
Take care,
Fred
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]>
Subject: [MOPO] Topic: Are there really posters that are only worth .99 cents???
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 5:36 PM
yes folks, it's about time we had this discussion.
First of all, we all know that there are 2 people who run weekly .99 cent no
reserve auctions - Bruce Hershenson & myself.
I'm talking real .99 cent auctions. I think Heritage does a great job, and I
think Grey is a fabulous person... but even though they do have starting bids
of .99 cents, they do have that $9 min fee so those are really "$9.99 auctions"
Every week Bruce sells lots of posters for just .99 cents each
Every week I sell lots of posters for just .99 cents each.
So what you have to wonder is "are these posters really only worth .99 cents?"
I can't imagine anything older than 1980 only being worth 99 cents myself..
although I firmly believe there is an enormous amount of post 1980 material
that is worthless due to supply.
For my own sales I can say what sells for 99 cents one week can sell for $20 or
$30 a month later, and it also goes in the reverse
I have some customers who really surprise me in that every week they win
20/30/40 posters and rarely if ever is one even at $1.99. Being as they are
mostly dealers too, I have to presume they are relisting the material
elsewhere, be it fleabay or convention/mail order stock. So for that reason it
is clear those aren't 99 cent posters. It's no different with Bruce's auctions.
of course, I look at them the same way a supermarket looks at their weekly
sales where they have an item for below cost. They call them "loss leaders".
merchandise you sell for a loss to bring people in the door hoping they will
spend other money.
I have the 99 cent auctions because while I offer lots of crap, I also have
lots of good stuff coming through and as my results are getting better, you can
be sure I'll be offering alot of better & better posters as time goes one. The
Star Wars auction next week is of course a perfect example.
yes, it is unlikely that an advance style Star wars 1sheet will sell for 99
cents, but I have no doubt there will be plenty of 99 cents items even in that
sale. Items that will slip through the cracks. bruce has items like that every
week as well.
so what do you think folks.. is this stuff just a bunch of 99 cent posters??
I'd like to hear your opinions on why posters should just be 99 cents
Rich=========
here are some that sold at 99 cents last week
(note these posters have all sold.. they are not selling right now)
LAUGHING POLICEMAN 1973 1sh .. Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Lou Gossett
$ 0.99
LAUGHING WOMAN 1969 1sh .. Philippe Leroy, Dagmar Lassander $ 0.99
LEPKE 1974 1sh .. Tony Curtis, Milton Berle, Michael Callan $ 0.99
LIFEGUARD 1978 1sh .. Sam Elliott, Anne Archer **COOL SURFING ARTWORK**
$ 0.99
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT 1977 1sh .. Dan Aykroyd, Mary Ann McDonald $ 0.99
MAD ADVENTURES of RABBI JACOB 1974 1sh .. Louis De Funnes $ 0.99
MAN and BOY 1971 1sh .. Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Leif Ericson $ 0.99
MAN FRIDAY 1975 1sh .. Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree $ 0.99
MAN of the EAST 1973 1sh .. Terence Hill, Harry Carey $ 0.99
MANSION of the DOOMED 1976 1sh .. Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame $ 0.99
MEMORIES WITHIN MISS AGGIE 1970s 1sh .. X-Rated**X-Rated**X-Rated $ 0.99
MONEY TALKS 1972 1sh .. Alan Funt's Candid Camera **JACK DAVIS ART** $ 0.99
MOVING VIOLATION 1976 1sh .. Stephen Mchattie, Kay Lenz $ 0.99
NATIONAL VELVET 1971R 1sh .. Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor $ 0.99
NEW CENTURIONS 1972 1sh .. George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander
$ 0.99
NEXT STOP GREENWICH VILLAGE 1976 1sh .. Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters $ 0.99
NIGHT CALLER 1975 1sh .. Jean-Paul Belmondo **COOL DESIGN** $ 0.99
NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN 1975 1sh .. David Niven, Don Knotts, Barbara Feldon
$ 0.99
NO WAY OUT 1973 1sh .. Alain Delon **TONY ARZENTA** $ 0.99
NORMA RAE 1979 Review 1sh .. Sally Field, Ron leibman, Beau Bridges $ 0.99
OBSESSION 1976 1sh .. Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold $ 0.99
ORCA 1977 Advance 1sh .. Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling $ 0.99
ORGANIZATION, the 1971 1sh .. Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair $ 0.99
PASSION of ANNA 1970 1sh .. Max Von Sydow, Liv Ullman dir. Ingmar Bergman
$ 0.99
PIPPI in the SOUTH SEAS 1970 1sh .. Inger Nilsson $ 0.99
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING 1969 1sh .. Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson $ 0.99
PLAYERS 1979 1sh .. Ali McGraw, Anthony Newley, Steve Guttenberg $ 0.99
PONY EXPRESS RIDER 1976 1sh .. Stewart Petersen, Henry Wilcoxon $ 0.99
POPI 1969 1sh .. Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, M. Alejandro
$ 0.99
POSSE 1975 1sh .. Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins, James Stacy $ 0.99
QUACKSER FORTUNE HAS A COUSIN in the BRONX 1970 1sh .. Gene Wilder $ 0.99
RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN 1978 1sh .. Bette Davis, Christopher Lee $ 0.99
RETURN of SABATA 1972 1sh .. Lee Van Cleef, Reiner Schone $ 0.99
RETURN TO OZ 1985 1sh .. Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh **STRUZAN ART**
$ 0.99
RETURN to the BLUE LAGOON 1991 DS 1sh .. Milla Jovavich, Brian Krause
$ 0.99
REVENGE 1990 1sh .. Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe $ 0.99
REVENGE of the NERDS II 1987 1sh .. Robert Carradine $ 0.99
REVENGERS, the 1972 1sh .. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Susan Hayward
$ 0.99
REVOLUTION, the 1985 1sh .. Al Pacino, Nastassia Kinski $ 0.99
REWARD, the 1965 1sh .. Max Von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Gilbert Roland
$ 0.99
RHINESTONE 1984 1sh .. Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton $ 0.99
RHINO 1964 1sh .. Robert Culp, Shirley Eaton, Harry Guardino $ 0.99
RHINOCEROS 1974 1sh .. Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black $ 0.99
RICH and FAMOUS 1981 1sh .. Candice Bergen, Jacqueline Bisset $ 0.99
RIDE BEYOND VENGEANCE 1966 1sh .. Chuck Connors, Gloria Grahame $ 0.99
RIDE the HIGH WIND 1966 1sh .. Darren McGavin, Maria Perschy $ 0.99
RIFF RAFF 1992 1sh .. Emer McCourt, Robert Carlyle, Ricky Tomlinson $ 0.99
RIGHT HAND MAN 1987 1sh .. Hugo Weaving, Rupert Everett $ 0.99
RIKKY and PETE 1988 1sh .. Stephen Kearney, Nina Landis **COOL IMAGE**
$ 0.99
RIO CONCHOS 1964 1sh .. Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman $ 0.99
RUSSIAN ROULETTE 1975 1sh .. George Segal, Christina Raines $ 0.99
SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA 1976 1sh .. Kris Kristofferson
$ 0.99
SCARECROW 1973 1sh .. Al Pacino, Gene Hackman $ 0.99
SHADOW of the HAWK 1976 1sh .. Jan Michael Vincent, Chief Dan George $ 0.99
SHAMUS 1972 1sh .. Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon $ 0.99
SHOOT OUT 1971 1sh .. Gregory Peck, Pat Quinn, Robert Lyons $ 0.99
SHOUT at the DEVIL 1976 1sh .. Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins
$ 0.99
SHOWDOWN 1973 1sh .. Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark $ 0.99
SILENT PARTNER 1974 1sh .. Elliott Gould, C.Plummer, Susannah York $ 0.99
SPIKES GANG 1974 1sh .. Lee Marvin, Ron Howard, Gary Grimes $ 0.99
STAY HUNGRY 1976 1sh .. Jeff Bridges, Sally Field $ 0.99
STREET PEOPLE 1976 1sh .. Roger Moore, Stacy Keach $ 0.99
STREET-FIGHTER 1959 1sh .. Vic Savage, Ann Atmar $ 0.99
TAKE A HARD RIDE 1975 1sh .. Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, Fred Williamson
$ 0.99
TAKE DOWN 1979 1sh .. Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Lloyd, Maureen McCormick
$ 0.99
TARZAN and the JUNGLE BOY 1974R 1sh .. Mike Henry as Lord of the Jungle
$ 0.99
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS 1972 1sh .. James Garner, Katherine Ross
$ 0.99
THIEVES LIKE US 1974 1sh .. K. Carradine, S. Duvall **GEORGE GROSS ART**
$ 0.99
TO KILL A CLOWN 1972 1sh .. Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Heath Lamberts $ 0.99
TUNNEL VISION 1976 1sh .. Phil Proctor, Howard Hesseman $ 0.99
ULTIMATE THRILL 1974 1sh .. Barry Brown, Britt Ekland, Eric Braeden $ 0.99
VALACHI PAPERS 1972 1sh .. Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura **STYLE C**
$ 0.99
WALKING TALL 1973 1sh .. Jo Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans $ 0.99
WALKING TALL PART 2 1975 1sh .. Bo Svenson, Richard Jaeckel $ 0.99
WAY WE WERE 1975R 1sh .. Robert Redford, Barbara Streisand $ 0.99
WEDDING NIGHT 1970 1sh .. Dennis Waterman, Tessa Wyatt $ 0.99
WHAT DO I TELL the BOYS at the STATION 1972 1sh .. MORT DRUCKER ART $ 0.99
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A NAKED LADY? 1970 1sh .. Allen Funt Candid Camera
$ 0.99
WHAT'S GOOD FOR the GOOSE 1969 1sh .. Norman Wisdom, Sally Geeson $ 0.99
WHERE the RED FERN GROWS 1974 1sh .. James Whitmore, Beverly Garland $ 0.99
WHIFFS 1975 1sh .. Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Godfrey Cambridge $ 0.99
WHO KILLED MARY WHAT'SERNAME 1971 1sh .. Red Buttons, Sylvia Miles $ 0.99
WILD in the SKY 1972 1sh .. Brandon de Wilde, Keenan Wynn, James Daly
$ 0.99
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