A few weeks ago a new seller (I wont mention his name because he was very
polite in his reply to me, rather than the usual rude reply from these high
listing characters) and I asked him if he was serious about selling his
posters. The reason was that I was serious about buying one of his but the
price was ridiculous.
His reply to me was that he knows the prices are insane and he really
didn't want to sell any of his posters. However, if some fool came along and
paid him the asking price then he would sell it.
A true sad story. I obviously did not make him an offer.
Claude
In a message dated 8/21/2010 2:04:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
sa...@comic-art.com writes:
At 06:37 AM 8/21/2010, Claude Litton wrote:
Bruce
Ebay is not the only one in the world "insanely greedy". All one has to
do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first.
You will get page after page of "insaaaaaane" prices. These prices do not
help the movie poster collecting world or ebay.
Claude
Claude is so-o-o-o-o right..
I wish I had tracked some sellers like Miniver. He had that Trip to the
Moon postyer at $100,000 years back when he first listed it on fleaBay (maybe
75k come to think of it)
the poster never sells and has been relisted ad-nauseum for a full decade
and the price has slowly climbed to $650k
I guess the thinking is "I need to reclaim all those ebay fees that I have
spent on listing this $%#& poster for ten years"
Then there are the people who have Star Wars one sheets (regular style,
2nd-3rd-4th printings) at $1999. AND A RESERVE
(what, the $1999 price wasn't reserved enough?)
there are the "supposed" sellers who have 100 posters listed of which few
are really desirable and all of which have reserves
they get listed every week and sometimes you even see a fair bid on some -
but they still don't meet the reserve (these are the "look what I have
sellers." - "oh, aren't I cool because I have these?")
there is one guy who relists on a weekly basis posters for Out of Sight
(60s hotrod movie) and other automobile & surfer titles with a reserve.
They have gotten bids once upon a time that were actually quite fair to
the seller. But they've never sold because who knows what he wants, so now
nobody bids on them, and he pays the relist & reserve fees again next week.
He will never be able to get out because the fees of one year's listing is
more than any one of them is worth (except the Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow..
he has a few more weeks of fees to catch up with that poster)
I could go on all day about them and I have to wonder how smart any of
these sellers are. How long will they continue to list them if they lose their
day jobs??
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