Grey beat me to it. How you can get 2001 and Star Wars confused, I don't
know. And, yes, it was a Buy-It-Now.
And lastly, as others have said, who cares what the markup is? If a seller
can't find a buyer at his asking price he lowers his price. I've sold quite
a few items to other dealers (many right here on this very list) and watched
them mark them up 200%, 300%, 400% and successfully re-sell. I have
absolutely no problem with that. I got the price I wanted and they got the
price they wanted. More power to 'em. That's the way of the world.
Obviously, the best solution for buyers looking for great posters at great
prices is to buy directly from Posteropolis! ;-)
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Smith, Grey - 1367" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 15 2001: a space odyssey posters on EBAY Sold for
$12,500
JR
FYI, Star Wars has very little, if anything to do with what many consider
to be THE seminal science fiction film of the latter part of the twentieth
century, Kubrick's "2001."
On Nov 28, 2009, at 12:35 PM, "James Richard"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm not saying that a 100% markup is necessarily out of line... although I
don't know of any other businesses that can get it these days. It's just
that there is a big difference between putting a 100% or 200% markup on a
poster a seller got for $20... or even $2,000... and putting a 100% to
200% markup on something the seller bought for $5,000 or $50,000. The
higher the initial acquisition cost, normally the less likely it is that a
buyer can be found willing to pay double or triple what the seller got it
for recently -- unless the seller just picks up one incredible bargain to
begin with.
Not being a collector or follower of Star Wars posters, I really have no
idea if the $12,500 is a reasonable/realistic price or not... or even if
$5,500 was a great bargain. I just found it very strange that the same set
of posters would sell for such a huge disparity in prices within a few
weeks of each other. We'll have to wait and see if the buyer with zero
feedback actually pays for them.
P.S. -- Dave, I didn't follow the auction, but I didn't think it was a Buy
It Now -- weren't people talking about it having a minimum starting bid of
$10,625 and finally selling for $12,500?
-- JR
P Molitor wrote:
Many dealers - and I'm certain Walter is one of them - have customers that
can't simply be @ssed to spend their days perusing auctions the way many
of us ob/coms do. I suspect those customers also have the bank account to
not begrudge a markup for the convenience, which at just over 100% seems
downright reasonable these days.
I'm sure many of these clients only become aware of these sorts of posters
when they appear on "their" dealer's website.
--Peter
--- On Fri, 11/27/09, James Richard
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
From: James Richard
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 15 2001: a space odyssey posters on EBAY Sold for
$12,500
To: <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 10:20 PM
Maybe... maybe not. It is incredibly easy to "buy something from yourself"
on Ebay if you want to do that to try to set a retail price to use in
later (possibly private) negotiations -- you only pay a couple of percent
to Ebay if you do that, not like the 19% it would cost you at Heritage. Or
some joker may have bid it without ever intending to pay for it -- Star
Wars items can attract a oddball crowd. I'm not saying either thing is
what happened in this case, I have no way of knowing, but the zero
feedback rating of the buyer is often a red flag.
There's no denying it is strange that a powerhouse record-price-setting
operation like Heritage could only get about $5.5 K for this set 6 months
ago and now someone manages to sell it for double that amount out of the
blue on Ebay. While anything is possible, I find it hard to believe that
there a people willing to spend $12,000 on a set of movies posters on Ebay
who don't also regularly frequent Heritage auctions. Why didn't whomever
just paid $12,500 simply bid for this set 6 months ago on Heritage and
pick them up for a whole lot less? But maybe his ship only just came in
recently (the stock market has been on a tear for the past 6 months), or
maybe he just wasn't paying attention 6 months ago when Heritage auctioned
them. Auctions are like the weather -- you can sort of predict what is
likely to happen based on past events, but random lightning strikes, hail
storms, freak down pours, or an new player or unexpected bidding war can
always strike and make a joke of all the!
carefully calculated predictions.
-- JR
Brek Anderson wrote:
Fact: Jealous critics, price Czars, and ebay format experts were all
wrong. Walter proved to be the smart one. Love it! Cheers to the seller!
Brek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Lataille"
<<http://us.mc315.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To:
<http://us.mc315.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 11:17:00 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 15 2001: a space odyssey posters on EBAY for $10,625
sold on Heritage
The difference is that you start your auctions at 99 cents. This seller
starts at $10,625 and as you say on your web site - "Fact: Buyers tend to
ignore auctions with high starting bids".
I just checked EBAY and they sold for $12,500! You just never know who is
on EBAY and what they are willing to pay.
________________________________
From: David Lieberman
<<http://us.mc315.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To:
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[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 2:28:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 15 2001: a space odyssey posters on EBAY for $10,625
sold on Heritage
hmmmmm......we buy stuff all the time from Bruce, Heritage, other auction
companies, Ebay, other collectors, and other dealers from all over the
world and routinely sell them for 2 times or even more than what we paid
for them.
or maybe I've been hallucinating all the years and I should start looking
for a new job too.
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Well, if they make there living asking for double of what someone else
paid for the same set, they need to find a new job. No one is going to pay
that amount.
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