Technically, all dealers are collectors, regardless of their views. There may be some 'fav' items, but it is still for sale.
To wit: If one wishes to sell (as in a business model), one has trouble performing that task from an 'empty wagon'. If one wishes to have a store, be it a brick/mortar establishment or a virtual entity, it may seem dubious to to attempt a sale with minimal wares. Any professional dealer (that I have encountered) has hundreds (or thousands) of wares. If sales/net profits justify a continuing enterprise ... customers become clients and the dealer then adjusts inventory to match client needs. Inventory (the dealer's collection) must be replenished; the dealer tailors his future purchases to match changing/future buyer's tastes. If the prospective dealer has a poor business model/retires/divorces/dies/loses interest, that is why the auction business exists/thrives. BTW ... anything I own or collect is for sale for the right price (including the shirt off my back). ad ________________________________ From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 5:14 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] QUESTION ABOUT THE SIZE OF SILENCE OF THE LAMBS I have known many people who were collectors, but once they became dealers they stopped collecting. the reasoning was that it was a poor way to run a business. At 02:08 AM 2/17/2012, Neil Jaworski wrote: Hi Kirby >I think that's really interesting that you don't collect, as I suspect most of the other major dealers do. And I imagine that a lot of dealers got into dealing via being collectors themselves. >Why do you think it would be a "bad idea" for you to have a collection and what would you collect if you did? >Cheers >Neil > > >From: Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012, 1:28 >Subject: Re: [MOPO] QUESTION ABOUT THE SIZE OF SILENCE OF THE LAMBS > >Neil, et al > >I did not collect posters when I was a kid. In fact, the first time >I ever heard of anyone collecting film posters was when my cousin, >Bill Withers, started collecting them from Eddie Brandt about 1972. >I thought: what an odd thing to want to own. Many years later I bought >my first group of posters, and quite honestly I intended to flip that lot >and to continue to do what I was doing, which was nothing in particular. >But that did not work out and I started selling posters. > >The truth is I have never been a collector of film posters and I >am not, truly, a collector today. An odd thing for someone who >owns thousands of them. > >I am a dealer. When I have at times contemplated starting >a collection myself, I have always rejected the idea. > >I think that, for me, this would be a bad idea. > >Every poster that I have may be purchased. > >Of course, I get to enjoy seeing many posters and I do enjoy helping >people find things and David, Steve and I enjoy of course, selling from the >MovieArt World Headquarters in Austin. > >Best, >Kirby > > > >On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Neil Jaworski wrote: > > >quid pro quo agent mcdaniel. i tell you things, you tell me things. >> >>not about yourself though, about posters, waddya say? >> >>what is your worst memory of childhood.....poster collecting. >> >> >>;-) >> >> >>From: Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2012, 17:21 >>Subject: [MOPO] QUESTION ABOUT THE SIZE OF SILENCE OF THE LAMBS >> >>Were the teasers for this film 27x40? >> >>Any help appreciated. >> >>Kirby >> >> 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. 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