Phillip
obviously I am also trolling fleaBay looking for stuff. Yes, Bruce
and Heritage and I all do better work - fleabay doesn't know what to
do and they keep trying to find "that formula" without realizing they
had the formula and abandoned it. But anyway, I usually don't post
about the Portals.. I let our resident "echo" member do it.. there
might not be much else for him to do.. But this listing was soooo
laughable.. I had to post
I helped someone else recognize what he had a couple weeks back on a
Portal as well.
I had bought a couple inserts from him, and he emailed me when he
listed a March of the Wooden Soldiers poster, but the size was wrong.
I asked if it had Portal productions in the border, he said yes & I
educated him over the course of several emails and unlike 98% of the
Portal sellers, he listened, changed his listing (it's on right now)
and he was very appreciative for the knowledge. sadly, most people
selling Portals know exactly what they are and know exactly what they
are doing.. I think that goes for the current listing of the Kong
Rich
At 02:31 PM 2/18/2010, Phillip W. Ayling wrote:
Re "King Kong"
It also promises on the Feature listing itself "This one will sell"
An interesting thing for me is that even though we all recognize
that E-bay is increasingly lame and our derision is loud and
justified, Richard, I believe, first noticed this listing and posted
it on MoPo within 40 minutes.
I won't make suppositions about why, I would let him tell that
story, but I would presume that many of us might have also have made
that post had we been first to notice it. I know for me, I notice
those things because I still spend much time trolling E-Bay for the
increasingly rare find. I imagine many of us will continue to do
so,even if there is only rarely an auction of value.
I would hate to know that one great poster was up for sale and I
didn't notice it, and someone else did and they got it... even
though I know that Richard and Bruce and Grey are all doing a better
job than Ebay.
I rarely get much on E-Bay and even when I do, I still get taken.
Yet, I still look.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a low value Gene Autry card, and it
was in better shape than the one I have. It isn't a card for which
there are commercial repros available. It was also being sold by
someone who sells mostly other stuff. The story goes that it had
been theirs for some time and of course listing says "Original
Vintage Gene Autry Lobby Card"
I also like to think that even though I am not a dealer and truly
just a minor collector in the scheme of things, that I am smarter
about posters than the average bear.
I get the card; it is a Kinko's Copy.
I contact seller and say this is not an "original Lobby card"
Seller says; "I was told it was original"
I reply; "So was I"
End of story; no further contact with seller and I have phony
non-commercial repro of a $30 Lobby.
Yet I will surf e-bay at some point today, even as I resent
virtually everything about their operation.
Phil Ayling
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Richard Halegua Comic Art
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] more on the King Kong poster
actually, aside from Faye Ray, the poster really is not a
reproduction as that exact image with text blurbs etc, like the Drac
& Frankenstein Portal posters, is not on any theatrical poster
At 10:32 AM 2/18/2010, walter reuben wrote:
hey guys
you are missing the boat on that Portal King Kong poster.
You have been making snarly comments about the guy who is selling it.
You have totally not noticed that this is the ultra rare Portal
version with "Fay Ray" or "Faye Ray." The seller has gone to a
lot of trouble to point this out.
Walter
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