This thinking is what caused all the monetary problems. People didn't buy houses to live in. They bought them to live in free by selling them at a huge profit. Home equity loans were rampant. Derivatives on real estate arrived on the theory that real estate would only rise and do so forever. Anyone who bought a poster should have bought it to enjoy it. Hang it on the wall and look at it and when you tire of it, replace it. You got your use out of it so sell it for whatever it will bring and buy another. You don't need to spend 5 or 6 figures on a poster. You can enjoy a $25 poster just as much as a $5000 poster. If you bought what you liked and made a profit - great. If not, big deal. If you only bought to make a profit and you bought many posters from the 80's and 90's then you didn't do enough research on what to buy. CJL In a message dated 3/11/2010 3:15:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
There are really just a handful of titles from the last 30 years that will ever see any value. It's all about supply and demand and the problem with "current" posters is that there is just too much supply of them. Sue ____________________________________ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:02:17 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets, closing in 13 hours, an unbelievable 563 that are still $5 each or under! To: [email protected] Ditto. Jeff On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Doug Taylor wrote: Agreed Regards DBT _Profile_ (http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasbtaylor) From: MoPo List [_mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ] On Behalf Of Zeev Drach Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:19 PM To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets, closing in 13 hours, an unbelievable 563 that are still $5 each or under! This is really depressing. Anybody who bought posters of movies he liked, in the past 30 years or so, can look at the current auction from Bruce and realize that most of them are worthless or close to it, and most likely will remain so. Collectors who have no “inside connections” have, most likely, paid much more for those posters than they sell for today. I would like to see others comment. Zeev From: MoPo List [_mailto:[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:19 AM To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Subject: [MOPO] FA: 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets, closing in 13 hours, an unbelievable 563 that are still $5 each or under! Thursday night's 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets (our largest selection ever!), closing tonight, on the 11th of March, starting in just 13 hours, represent REALLYincredible values, and that includes a lot of cool posters, and yet many of these are currently languishing at low, low, prices! With just 13 hours to go, the 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets include an astounding 270 that are still at $1 each or under (that is cheaper than wrapping paper, and you could buy these and have the most interestingly wrapped Xmas presents this year!), an even more amazing 456 that are still $3 each or under, and an unbelievable 563 that are still $5 each or under! HELLO! This is 2010, and I doubt you could have purchased any of these 563 posters for UNDER $6 when these movies first came out, or any time since! Remember that those "other" auctions have a MASSIVE $14 buyers premium they tack on to EVERY purchase! And remember that in OUR auctions all you have to pay is $10 U.S. shipping, no matter how many of these posters you buy (not the nosebleed shipping some auctions charge)! And if you are in our e-mail club (over 6,000 members), you get great ADDED bonuses if you purchase 10 or 15 items in all! Of course, once you get OVER just $5, you start hitting lots and lots of "better" titles, but an awful lot of those are currently at VERY reasonable prices, including: 1w252 GOODFELLAS DS 1sh '90 Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Martin Scorsese classic! 1w608 RESERVOIR DOGS 1sh '92 Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn! 1w583 PULP FICTION 1sh '94 Quentin Tarantino, close up of sexy Uma Thurman smoking in bed! 1w789 UNFORGIVEN teaser 1sh '92 classic image of gunslinger Clint Eastwood with his back turned! 1w008 BATMAN BEGINS DS set of 2 signed 1sh '05 by Bale, Caine, Neeson, Holmes, Oldman & Freeman! 1w737 TERMINATOR 1sh '84 super close up of most classic cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger with gun! 1w178 DARK KNIGHT teaser DS 1sh '08 Heath Ledger as the Joker, why so serious? 1w007 AMERICAN BEAUTY signed DS 1sh '99 by Mendes, Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Cooper & Suvari! 1w768 TOY STORY DS blue style 1sh '95 Disney & Pixar cartoon, great image of Buzz, Woody & cast! 1w179 DARK KNIGHT Wilding teaser 1sh '08 cool playing card image of Christian Bale as Batman! 1w200 DICK TRACY teaser 1sh '90 art of Madonna as Breathless Mahoney, Mind if I call you dick? 1w337 INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM white style 1sh '84 montage art of cast by Drew Struzan! 1w558 PHANTOM MENACE style A teaser 1sh '99 Star Wars Episode I, Anakin Skywalker w/Vader shadow! 1w693 STALAGS: HOLOCAUST & PORNOGRAPHY IN ISRAEL 1sh '00s wild image of sexy Nazis! 1w788 UNFORGIVEN DS 1sh '92 Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman 1w793 USUAL SUSPECTS int'l recalled watch 1sh '95 Kevin Spacey covering watch, Baldwin, Singer! 1w617 ROCKETEER DS 1sh '91 Disney, really cool John Mattos art of flying man! 1w426 KANSAS CITY BOMBER LIFE teaser 1sh '72 full-length sexy roller derby girl Raquel Welch! 1w253 GOODFELLAS int'l 1sh '90 Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Martin Scorsese classic! 1w305 IMAGINE teaser 1sh '88 classic self portrait artwork by former Beatle John Lennon! 1w661 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS style B teaser DS 1sh '90 creepy image of Anthony Hopkins w/moth! 1w057 ARMY OF DARKNESS DS 1sh '93 Sam Raimi, great artwork of Bruce Campbell with chainsaw hand! 1w087 BATMAN BEGINS teaser DS 1sh '05 great image of Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader! 1w797 VIXEN 1sh '68 classic Russ Meyer, sexy naked Erica Gavin, is she woman or animal? 1w597 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE DS 1sh R05 Nicholas Ray, James Dean was a bad boy from a good family! 1w663 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS style D DS 1sh '90 great image of Jodie Foster with moth over mouth! 1w501 MILLER'S CROSSING int'l advance 1sh '89 Coen Brothers, Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro 1w360 IRON GIANT DS advance 1sh '99 animated modern classic, cool cartoon robot image! 1w560 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN advance DS 1sh '03 Curse of the Black Pearl, skeleton at the wheel! 1w224 FIGHT CLUB style A advance 1sh '99 portraits of Edward Norton and Brad Pitt & bar of soap! 1w662 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS style C teaser 1sh '90 great image of Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins! 1w618 ROCKETEER DS teaser 1sh '91 Disney, really cool John Mattos art of Campbell in full costume! 1w430 KILL BILL: VOL. 2 DS advance 1sh '04 bride Uma Thurman with katana, Quentin Tarantino 1w262 HARD DAY'S NIGHT 1sh R99 great image of The Beatles, rock & roll classic! 1w131 BRAVEHEART advance 1sh '95 cool image of Mel Gibson as William Wallace! 1w011 GINGER SNAPS signed Canadian 1sh '00 by Emily Perkins & Katharine Isabelle! 1w108 BIZARRE STYLES 1sh R84 Vanessa Del Rio in sexy leopard outfit! 1w703 STAR TREK VI teaser 1sh '91 cool different art of Leonard Nimoy as Spock by Drew Struzan! 1w142 CASABLANCA 1sh R92 Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Kelley art from Michael Curtiz classic! 1w711 STAR TREK: THE FACE OF THE FUTURE TV 1sh '92 cool image of the Enterprise in astronaut helmet! and on and on and on and on! Don't forget to check out our 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets sometime BEFORE they end TONIGHT Thursday, March 11th, (but you only have 13 hours left to do so, because they start ending at 7 PM CST TONIGHT, so hustle over there right now!) by going to _http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/14.html_ (http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/14.html) And now you can browse the items in ALL of galleries at one time in our _All Auctions_ (http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html) gallery at _http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html_ (http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html) ! Bruce Hershenson and the 25 other members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) website: _http://www.emovieposter.com_ (http://www.emovieposter.com/) e-mail: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) our auctions: _http://auctions.emovieposter.com_ (http://auctions.emovieposter.com/) P.S. About the Originality of Rolled One-Sheets Many collectors would like to add posters from their favorite movies of the 1980s onward to their collection, but they rightfully are afraid they will be sold commercial posters (or reproductions or bootlegs), rather than actual posters either used in theaters or intended for theater use. WHEN YOU BUY FROM US THIS WEEK, YOU HAVE A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL BE BUYING A GENUINE ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTERS! This is because all of these posters come to us either from theater owners, or from advanced collectors (often ones who purchased the posters right when the movies first came out), people who know how to distinguish an original poster, and also, we here at eMoviePoster very carefully scrutinize every poster to make 100% certain it is genuine! But you don't have to take our word for it! If you purchase any poster this Thursday, and you have the slightest doubts about its originality after you receive it, it is fine for you to return it for a full refund within 7 days of receipt (but we virtually never get a single poster returned, because we reject any poster that is consigned to us if we have the slightest doubts about it!). About the Condition Normally when we sell movie paper, we grade the posters on a scale that allows for some defects typical of 30 to 75-year-old movie posters that were actually used in theaters. Such posters often have some minor wear at the very least, and it is next to impossible to find posters that have no wear at all, and it would be silly to have a grading scale where no posters would qualify for "very good to fine" (or better grades), so we use a more "relaxed" scale that allows for very minor defects in our "very good to fine" grade. But in this auction, we are selling a fair number of posters from the past 20 years, and those posters can more often be found in excellent condition, because there were dealers and collectors who purchased these posters unused, and kept them in wonderful condition. So for THIS auction, we grade on a MUCH stricter scale than we do for our folded one-sheet auctions! We downgrade posters to "very good to fine" for very minor defects (things like a single tiny tear in the border, or faint creases in the edges). We further downgrade to "very good" posters that have several of these types of defects, even though the poster would probably qualify as "fine", if it was from the 1940s! We use this "sliding scale" grading because it allows us to better convey the poster's true condition to our buyers. If we used the exact same scale for all posters, then most 1920s posters would be graded as "fair" or "poor", and most 1980s or 1990s posters would be graded as "fine", and we realize that that benefits nobody! In this auction, we have given a more detailed overall condition grade ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", "good", and "fair", with only a few "poor") for each poster. We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects. Know that we generally grade FAR more harshly than any other dealer we know! A 1990s poster that we grade as "good" or "good to very good" may well be one that many collectors could display on their wall just as it is, and may well be one that many other dealers would grade as "very good". So please don't reject a poster because it has a grade of "good" or "good to very good". 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