Here's something to consider. At virtually every movie collectible show I go to, I see a certain dealer who shall remain nameless who has beautiful posters, many of which are classic titles. which he displays prominently over several exhibit tables. His prices are astronomical and I never see anybody buying anything at his table. I recently asked another dealer how it can possibly be worthwhile for him to do this, given the cost of buying about five or more tables at each show. His response was that should he sell even one poster at any one of these shows, his mark-up is so great that it will make the whole show worthwhile. FRANC
-----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Lataille Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] nobody seems to bid on posters anymore 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 > > 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. 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.
