I buy a few new posters. And the new posters are what I put up in my office because the lighting is so destructive. Plus, some of the new paper I like, so what the heck.I think some of the newer posters may one day sell for $100 or so, but not the $1000s the old stuff fetches. The posters I have up in my office right now are Ironman and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. When I first started putting up these posters, people were surprised that you could buy them. But as far as I can tell, no one here is in the market to buy them. John
________________________________ From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 3:45:49 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: 834 rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets, closing in 13 hours, an unbel once again, Claude gives an astute response At 12:28 PM 3/11/2010, Claude Litton wrote: 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. > > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > >___________________________________________________________________ > >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > >___________________________________________________________________ > >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >___________________________________________________________________ >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com >___________________________________________________________________ >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > >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 > > > >From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zeev Drach > >Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:19 PM > >To: [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] > >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 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 e-mail: [email protected] > >our auctions: 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. > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > >___________________________________________________________________ > >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > >___________________________________________________________________ > >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > >Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > >___________________________________________________________________ > >How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > >Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > >In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > >The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
