If this "X" half sheet sells for $3500, I'll eat my "Screaming Skull"
one sheet on You Tube.
I've seen this happen a few times since I got back into the hobby in the
early to mid Nineties. "Invasion of the Saucer Men" sold for huge dough
at some auction, and all subsequent examples of this title have been
selling for a king's ransom ever since. Ditto with "Attack of the
50-Foot Woman" and "Wasp Woman". While this AIP piece is indeed
beautiful, I just don't see the long-term break-the-bank effect
happening on this one. There's a LOT of copies of this poster floating
around out there, especially the one sheets. Plus, it's not quite
kitschy enough to really have that extra-special B-movie mojo, in the
opinion of this aficionado of le cinema de crappe..
Greg Douglass
PS-Of course, if I'm wrong, I'll be kicking myself for selling my one
sheet on this title for a couple of hundred bucks a few years back.
Bruce Hershenson wrote:
One thing to remember Jeff, is that you never see cancelled checks
after auctions end, to prove the sale actually took place, and that it
was at the reported price, or that no trade was involved, or that the
"buyer" didn't take a year to pay (if they ever paid at all).
Many times over the past 40 years I have seen items "sold" for HUGE
prices, and later learned that the buyer never paid. When the item
goes back to auction, the new buyer THINKS they got a "great deal"
because they ONLY paid a quarter of what the previous "buyer" paid,
when it often was the case that NO ONE ever paid that price.
Also, many auctions over the years have been caught red-handed posting
sky-high "results" that never happened. Since they don't pay any
commissions to anyone if it is their own poster, it is only their
personal integrity that prevents them from reporting false results.
The owner of the world's largest sports memorabilia auction was
ARRESTED a few months ago by the FBI and charged with numerous
offenses, including selling false autographs, doctoring cards, etc,
and that auction house was shut down.
Don't always believe what is "reported" and take everything you read
with several HUGE grains of salt.
Bruce
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Walton, Jeffrey
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Here is a poster
<http://cgi.ebay.com/X-THE-MAN-w-X-RAY-EYES-1963-GORGEOUS-HS-VF-XF-LOOK_W0QQitemZ330338121926QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4ce9afb8c6&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A9%7C294%3A30>
offered on ebay
Now I thought it was a rather large anomaly that one sold at
heritage for over 4 grand, then the next auction (may 9) they had
one sell for over $1000
Yet here is the same poster (of which I have had two pass through
my hands and still have one) listed for a ton.
Now I ask you this….is this another case in...”hey this poster
sold for a ****load at auction….so mine must be worth the same.”
And now every time this poster is offered for sale it will be at
this new inflated price because someone once forked over this
ridiculous amount (IMO).
I’ve been collecting for over 20 years…my forte is sci-fi…and I’ve
seen this poster many times in the past 20 years…so in my opinion
it is really shouldn’t demand the same price as some of the
higher-end posters in this genre. I don’t even think it should
have brought a grand at the last auction but again someone
probably thought they were getting a bargain when compared to the
auction results before that.
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