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
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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
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From: MoPo List [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]] 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
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!
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
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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". Please study our supersized image and see
if the defects are the sort that you can accept.
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