No Bruce.. they wouldn't recognize the posters (old people's disease)
At 07:34 PM 5/30/2009, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
"The median age at the show was about 67"
THERE'S your answer! Next year they could hold
it in the intensive care unit of the nearest
Columbus hospital. Plus all the patients would
recognize everyone on the 1920s and 1930s posters.
Bruce
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Franc
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
I hate to beat a dead horse but Cinevent is
stuck in a groove and the collectors who
frequent this trade fare seem to like it that
way, judging from the attacks I received because
I dared to suggest that the venue could be
improved. The median age at the show was about
67. There were no young people there at all and
frankly nothing to draw them in. FRANC
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Subject: [MOPO] Where is the next generation of poster dealers?
One thing that I noticed while walking the
floors of Cinevent was what seemed to be a
dearth of young blood at the show, most
obvious in the form of no younger dealers (I
think I was the baby at the show and I turned 40
this year) and also in no younger collectors in attendance.
I certainly realize that eBay and the internet
in general have had a chilling effect on
conventions/shows overall, but I was still
surprised by what I perceived to be a lack of a
younger audience interested in movie paper.
When doing comic shows, there would always be
the original dealers who have been selling
since the 60s/70s and are still hauling around
merchandise in the same boxes they used in 1967,
then there would be the guys who started in the
80s/90s who now have a more advanced/mature
inventory and offerings, and then the young
guns who had recently gotten started and had
vast inventories of new hot comics. The trend
would always be that as time goes on, attrition
takes a few out of each level, while some step
up to the next and more young guns enter and start the cycle over.
I really dont see this happening (at shows)
with movie paper. There wasnt a single dealer
at the show set up selling rolls of new Dark
Knight or Star Trek posters or whatever the
flavor of the month is. I know that some are
out there I see them on eBay and on the
boards. Do you guys go to shows at all? Or is
it that you find Cinevent full of older
collectors who dont want posters from any
movie made in color? Or is it that it is just
so much easier to send an email out to your
customer list and let them know you have the new
Transformers2 poster that you dont need to
spend the extra money to go to a show and try to add to your clientele?
Just curious about all this, as I think it would
be great if there was a huge poster show where
dealers of all eras were set up and there were
enough collectors there to make it worthwhile.
Sean
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