here is the philosophy of the sellers:
$7.49 = "if that's what it sells for, that must be in the range of
the real value"
$125 = "oh man, this is such a great item.. there has to be someone
somewhere that wants this item as much as I like it"
$500 = "boy I sure hope some donkey finds my listing so I can stick
to him.. Whoo-hoo!"
and there is also this one:
$25,000,000 = "my name is Mrs Miniver"
: - )
At 12:17 PM 5/30/2009, you wrote:, Roland Lataille wrote:
Yeah, there are a lot of clueless poster dealers. They must make no
profit as most of there listings never sell. Why bother with all the
work of listing posters that will never sell at the price you are asking?
Lets see... A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World movie program sold for $7.49
on May 19. But wait! There is another listed now and the asking
price is only $125! Oh no! A better deal can be had - I see another
listed for $500!
Roland
Cinerama web site:
http://cineramahistory.com/
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, jbirddouglass <[email protected]> wrote:
From: jbirddouglass <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] nobody seems to bid on posters anymore
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 12:36 PM
The insane prices on most of those "Buy it Now" poster auctions are
proof that there is still plenty of crack being smoked out there.
Makes me think about that great scene in the classic comedy "Used Cars":
"Yes sir, that's New Deal Used Posters... now wait just a goddamn
minute. What the hell is this? Is this a title card from "It, the
Terror from Beyond Space" for twenty-four thousand dollars? That's
too f**king high!!" (Blows up card with dynamite.)
I still get the occasional bargain on Ebay, but it's just too
annoying poring over all the crap. Rich, Bruce, and Heritage yield
much more satisfying results, especially with my parsimonious poster
spending limits these days.
Greg Douglass
John Waldman wrote:
> Who in the heck places all those buy it now auctions on Ebay
anyway? It's more then 7 pages of them now. I can tell you as a
buyer, I look at none of those "buy it now"s anymore. Same over
priced crap everyday.
> On the other hand I try not to miss BH and Movieposterbid's
auctions. They get most of my $ these days.
> Does anyone else miss those old Rotman Ebay auctions? A lot of
it was kinda dogeared, but there was some cool stuff in those auctions.
> John Waldman
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