By the way, JR, just to clarify as I feel needs to be done, contrary to popular belief and some disinformation by others, in that we charge fees for photography (of which all items in Signature auctions are photographed and in the catalog and online) and insurance, etc., is false! This is completely wrong as we charge nothing to the consignor in our Signature auctions other than a flat 15% of the hammer price. There are NO other fees. Thanks
From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Richard Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] AN OPEN LETTER TO CONSIGNEES Michael, Just for the heck of it, why not put some good pictures of it up on a website, tell us what it is and give a detailed condition description and see if any MOPO members are interested in buying it? Costs you nothing. There are precious little guarantees in life. If you have 5 decent posters to sell, you should be able to meet Heritage's $5,000 minimum -- which is based on their *estimate* of what the posters may bring. If the poster is truly is worth $3,000 or more, then you should have no trouble. You might find Heritage's estimate on that one poster alone would get you close to $5,000. And at least you'd know what their experts estimate its worth to be. But I have a question: Does it cost a seller anything to list with Heritage? In other words, if the poster Heritage auctions for them doesn't meet the reserve and does not sell, do they still owe Heritage some money? Bruce's 99 cent auctions were a stroke of marketing genius in the early Ebay days, but now he's kind of boxed in by it. Since he is now running his own auction site and no longer has to pay insertion fees based on the minimum asking price or final valuation fees, there is no reason why he couldn't continue to run most of his auctions as his signature 99-cent starting bid events and then have one "Premium" event every couple of months which would have, if not higher minimum starting bids, at least show displayed reserve prices which the poster must meet in order to sell. This could benefit Bruce's operations and sellers. Often it will happen that a reserve item is bid up to within 90% of the reserve but doesn't quite make it. When that happens it is not unusual for the seller to decide "what the heck" and contact the high bidder and sell it for that price. I am sure that over the years there have been a lot of people with very fine posters who wanted to consign to Bruce, but are scared off by that 99-cent with no reserve policy (much as we bidders love it). Bruce could ponder this on his vacation, since he won't have anything else to do (heh...:) -- JR Michael B wrote: for the record................i recognize that Heritage's Signature auctions--especially the live/audience--section--can only include "better" pieces. i have said on MOPO that should or when i ever sell my entire collection, i want all my 1000+++ posters to go to Heritage's Live Signature Auction. All collectors would love their top pieces in a Live Signature Auction: the net prices to the consignors typically are the highest. heritage has surpassed chrities and sotherbys. heritage's $5000 minimum as a matter of policy is their decision. BUT, BUT, BUT............my original posting sought opinions on how to best market a sungle poster valued at bwtween 1500 to 3000, and of course, contributors add new angles to the discussions. michael -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Grey - 1367 <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Aug 1, 2009 12:19 pm Subject: Re: [MOPO] AN OPEN LETTER TO CONSIGNEES Hello Michael, Todd and Mopo Yes, it is true we hope to have at least a $5000 minimum value consignment from any one consignor. And since we feel there is significant price information from our site which can help us and the consignor in that evaluation, we believe it is more often than not a fair accessment, though always willing to discuss. We offer two very successful venues in which to sell material and do getter better prices on much of the material we sell. So if a consignor has three $500 items and thirty $30-50 items we will do business and will seldom turn away an opportunity to sell quality items. We are always open to good consignments and try to be very fair in our accessments. Michael did have some nice items and a few that would normally be run in our weekly venue. From my understanding, he wanted all in a catalog auction and thus we were unable to work with him in this instance. I feel sure we should be able to do business in the future. I will often take a chance on rare items in the hopes they will exceed the $5000 mark with no priors to compare. Sometimes they work out very well. Sometimes not as well as hoped, but we will always welcome inquiries as how we can help a potential consignor and if value warrented will travel to you to discuss! I On Aug 12009, at 4:14 AM, "Todd Feiertag" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>>> wrote I don't know if that applies to just their sports department, but it doesn't make sense. For instance, if someone has 5 real nice $500. items, they would turn it down?? Todd ________________________________ Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 08:51:49 +0000 Fro m: <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> Subject: Re: [MOPO] AN OPEN LETTER TO CONSIGNEES To: <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> I was talking to heritage about auctioning some sports items about a month ago. That department said thier new requirments are a minimum of $5000 total and a minimum of $500 min per lot est. value. I think that is going to slow the flow if that new policy applies to movie posters as well. That would have to help emovieposter.com<http://emovieposter.com<http://emovieposter.com/>> and MPB Brek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Feiertag" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>>> To: <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2009 2:11:14 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [MOPO] AN OPEN LETTER TO CONSIGNEES 2. heritage, although they do allow consignors to set reserves with20their approval, only accepts consignments of posters totalling about 5,000. Michael, I think you have an extra zero on your figure. Todd ________________________________ Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:10:34 -0400 From: <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> Subject: [MOPO] AN OPEN LETTER TO CONSIGNEES To: <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>> yesterday, someone asked about the value of his 1931 one-sheet poster that he might consider selling. it was a rare poster, and the only known sale was by emovieposter (bruce) over 15 years ago for about 600. this seller wants to sell it and get 3,000 net. 1. ebay is totally wrong for such a quality piece. 2. heritage, although they do allow consignors to set reserves with their approval, only accepts consignments of posters totalling about 5,000. 3. bruce would clearly sell it, but he starts his auctions at a dollar. this is risky for the seller. Surely, if the value of the poster is just a couple of hundred, so be it!!!! bruce did his job in getting the fair value. But, that wouldn't please the consignor. i h ave about 6 top posters that i want to sell. one, for example, is ALL ABOUT EVE insert. bruce sales of it are as follows: $1,650 in 2008, $733 in 2005 and $1,976 in 2002. 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