I am not so sure about that, Kirby. The million dollar comic books get the "oohs and aahs", but do they raise the prices of $10 comic books?
More that anything, I feel that the key to any hobby is whether the core collectors have a true love of what they collect. Once the "investor types" move in, and those with true love move on, the hobby grows much the poorer for it, even if (in dollar terms) it *FEELS *like the hobby is still healthy. That is why I am so happy there is a "new breed" of poster collector that you mostly find on allposterforum.com and not very much here. Many of these collectors have hundreds or thousands of posters from the past 30 years. They *LOVE *their collections, and they are buying their OWN memories, not what other people tell them should be worth collecting. Bruce On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> wrote: > All this is true enough, but it is the top of the pyramid that gives verve > and interest to collecting. It is high-end performance of posters --- such > as the > posters you used to sell at Christies - and to some extent still offer > today - as well as Sothebys, Heritage, etc - oh, and let's not forget > MovieArt !! - > that very much help to create vital interest in collecting. > > Kirby McDaniel > www.movieart.net > > > On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: > > Here's the thing about expensive movie posters. It doesn't amount to a hill > of beans what all the "rooters" think a poster *SHOULD* sell for. All that > matters is what the few well-heeled bidders think, and when one of the major > players (Kirk Hammett) switches from buyer to seller, that is a *HUGE > *reversal > in the tiny high end part of the hobby. > > The entire hobby is a pyramid. I have sold to 31,000 movie paper fans, and > maybe 20,000 of those would never spend even $100 on a single item. Probably > another 8,000 would never spend $500, and probably another 2,000 would never > spend $1,000. That last 1,000 or so *HAVE *spent $1,000 or more on a > single poster. > > How many have spent $40,000 or more? A couple of dozen or so. And it is > what *THEY *think of the Metropolis insert that matters, not what anyone > else thinks. > > I am content to keep mostly selling to those 20,000 who like posters > between $1 and $100. THAT part of the hobby is doing quite well! > > Bruce > > P.S. My estimates are wild guesses, although I could, if I wanted, analyze > my sales and see the actual numbers. The true numbers might be off, but the > basis concept is 100% sound. The top of the pyramid is incredibly tiny, just > as it is in comic books, or baseball cards, or Van Gogh paintings. > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> first time I said $75-125k >> then I said $100-125k >> >> I still think at $100k, I was closest.. LOLOLOL >> >> >> >> At 08:41 PM 3/19/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote: >> >> So who was closest? >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:26 AM, allen day <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'll take some of that action. >> >> $168k (includes BP) >> >> ad >> >> --- On Fri, 3/19/10, Brek Anderson < [email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: Brek Anderson < [email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Any bets on METROPOLIS? >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:45 AM >> >> >> $268,361 Bet 25 cents. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Richard Halegua Comic Art" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:24:36 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Any bets on METROPOLIS? >> >> much less than that I think.. $100-125k >> >> >> At 11:13 AM 3/18/2010, James Richard wrote: >> Is there a betting pool going on what the METROPOLIS poster will go for >> this weekend at Heritage? >> >> I'm thinking around $200,000 (since it is "only an insert" and doesn't >> actually have the image of the robot-Maria on it). >> >> >> http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7019&Lot_No=85446 >> >> This Friday, March 19th the 'Rarest Of The Rare' 1927 Metropolis Movie >> Poster is up for Auction <http:/??> >> 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. >> >> >> 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.
