Frank, I think you're exaggerating just a little bit.
I attended this year's Cinevent, and have been going to this show, at the same
hotel, for almost 20 years. While this hotel may have its flaws(e.g. poor A/C
in some common areas), calling it "disgusting" is grossly unfair and totally
inaccurate.
I have no shares in this hotel, and no personal interest in it, I just don't
want people who never attended the show, and who might be contemplating on
doing so in the future, be wrongly influenced by your highly subjective bad
experience.
No printing capacity in the "business center" (exactly 2 computer monitors) may
not be as important to most guests as it is for you. Sorry.
Zeev
----- Original Message -----
From: FRANC MARTARELLA
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
I think Collectible Shows and on-site auctions can still have the edge.
I just got back from Cinevent and it's great to connect with dealers and buyers
I haven't seen all year and nothing, not even a super-image zoom, can replace
holding a poster or lobby cards in your hands to see the artwork, color,
texture etc. Besides which it's tedious to go through all the Heritage or
Bruce Hershenson listings to check condition and I lose interest one quarter of
the way through.
That said, I found this year's Cinevent to be a someone subdued affair.
Unfortunately the economy has taken its toll on the art of collecting movie
ephemera. Most of the dealers were complaining that sales were slow and I don't
think Morrie going to count this one as his most financially successful auction
either.
Part of the problem for me is that disgusting hotel the Cinevent insist
on using. Their business center had no capacity to print anything, given that
their printers were all down and had been apparently for some time. The rooms
either smell of disinfectant or stale cigarettes. The air- conditioner in my
room was dead and had to be changed. The restaurant doesn't even look clean and
wake-up calls were ignored by the front desk. The auction room was decided
hot, so much so I couldn't sit in that room for more than an hour at a time and
Morrie seemed to be experiencing technical problems throughout. I've made a
decision to stay elsewhere ...anywhere else... next year. I only wish the
Cinevent management would wise up and follow suit. FRANC
From: Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 10:41 AM
I love Morrie, and he is absolutely one of the pioneers of this
hobby! Without people like Morrie and Richard Allen, who started the hobby and
spent massive effort on making the world aware of it, there likely wouldn't be
a hobby today!
With that being said, I do think that "live auctions" are a dying
breed, and large collectible shows have a similar problem. Why should people
spend lots and lots of money on travel and hotels when they could spend that
same money on buying posters? In the "old days", the advantage was that you
could see the items "up close and personal", and that was not possible through
the mail, without spending $50,000 or so on a deluxe color catalog as I did,
and even then you didn't get a really good idea of what the condition was, just
what the image looked like.
But now, with the Internet, you CAN provide super-sized images that
show every flaw in excrutiating detail (of course some auctions choose not to
do so, with fuzzy scans, but that is their choice), so I really think that one
giant advantage live auctions had is gone.
I hope Morrie can continue to put on his auctions (to whatever extent
he can), and that the hobby will support him, for as you rightly point out,
Cinevent might not survive either, and it is wonderful that once a year there
is a place in the middle of the country where many of the members of the hobby
gather (I have attended many times, and would have been there this time, except
for fate conspiring against me; Memorial Day falls super-early this year, and
it started on the last day of my kid's school, and my 14 year old had perfect
attendence all four years of middle school and he wasn't about to miss the very
last day, and besides, he got straight As all year and got an award that last
day, so I had to choose being at that over being at the auction, and it was no
choice at all).
Bruce
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Douglas Ball
<deb...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
Michael,
Speaking from what I have seen... Morrie was extremely short of
help this year. I believe this is also the first year as long as I have
attended that Marty Davis wasn't involved.
Anyway, Morrie tried some new things this year, some worked well,
but many did not...I believe for next year there will changes...for the best!
As for the catalogues, this was the first time I received a catalog
for the Columbus auction, I've only receive flyers. If you were at the auction
you could get a catalog free of charge.
They are not the quality of Heritages auctions. Heritage has the
resources and personal to put together their beautiful catalogs, pictures, and
descriptions...plus from what I understand, they print their own. Morrie did
this on his own, with a lot of help from his family...whom I respect.
If you viewed the online catalog, you would have received a better
description and picture than the catalog, plus if you really wanted to bid,
many options to do so...including coming to Cinevent to be a part of the poster
community as those who did.
There was a time that Morrie's auction was one of the biggest and
best. A lot of high end poster were there, if you were after them. Heritage and
of course Bruce went to Morrie auctions, learned from them, and did their own.
We need Morrie auctions, Cinevent (to survive) needs it, and we collectors and
dealers need it. To bash it without giving Morrie some constructive
opinions/criticisms will only help hurt our future of this business including
the live auctions that are doing well at this time.
Doug Ball
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael B
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] hollywood poster auction & DISCUSSION
1. i gave up looking at the site because it took forever to load
into my computer. AND I HAVE A FAST COMPUTER.
2. more importantly, i wrote 2 emails to Hollywood Poster asking
why i could not see poster descriptions. Neither were answered. How can you
bid without a description??? Did their on-line sire contain descriptions?
Were you able to really enhance an image?
>>>>>so, although a quick search of the site found 2 posters i
might have bid on.......i never went back.
SO WHY DO AUCTION HOUSES LIKE HERITAGE SEND OUT FREE CATALOGUES?
ANSWER: they are smart! !!!
For example, in the last Signature Auction of Heritage, i made a
quick search on their internet site. Although, i saw beautiful posters, i
believe only one interested me at the time. Yet, after i received their
catalogue, and had time to study it, i tracked about 12+
posters-----------------------and bought 6 INCLUDING the one sheet and insert
of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
clearly, i was super-pleased with the items i won, and Signature
made more money because of my bidding. SO------THE AUCTION HOUSES THAT ARE
SMART SEND OUT CATALOGUES TO SERIOUS BIDDERS BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU GOTTA SPEND
MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.
>>>>>if the receiver of a catalogue increases a lot sold by $100,
then the auction house made money to cover the catalogue and shipping cost.
surely, a recipient should be removed from the free auction catalogue courtesy
if they never bid.
and, whenever i write to Heritage, i always get a fast answer.
for example, i asked a question about the one sheet of Dorian Gray, and
received a response from bruce c. within 2 hours of my question. as i said, i
won that item!
michael
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