Bruce, thank you clarifying.
Yes - you would be responsible for paying to ship your items to MoviePosterExchange.com. I believe this is standard in the industry. Do you reimburse people when they ship items to you? Having never consigned anything to you I am unaware if you do this. Of course, using the figures you provided, even at the lowest end the numbers come out very favorable compared to your rates. For example you wrote: "So this means that when we sold a $30 poster, we would pay MoviePosterExchange a $3 commission, PLUS the approximately $11 shipping. So we would pay $14 to sell a $30 poster. It gets even worse the lower the price goes. On a $20 poster we would pay $13, and on a $10 poster we would pay $12, for a net LOSS of $2 for every $10 poster we sold!" The numbers you have given seem like a bargain compared to the consignor who sells a $30 poster on eMovieposter.com Where there they would pay a $12 commission and when you add in the approximately $11 shipping, they pay $23 to sell a $30 item on eMovieposter.com. I am sure it also gets worse as the price gets lower. The point being if you have a single $30 item to sell, there are probably better options than eMovieposter.com or MoviePosterExchange.com. And if you have a bunch of $30 items that you would like to dump (and don't mind if approximately half of them sell for $14 or less as you tell us every week), eMovieposter.com might be a good if not great option for you. MoviePosterExchange is probably not your best bet for this type of dumping, we understand and accept this. But, if you have higher quality items (either a single piece or a whole collection) and you have a fixed price in mind for them, there is not a seller that offers better terms than MoviePosterExchange.com Take for example an item like the Gimme Shelter one-sheet eMoviePoster.com is offering at a fixed price. If it sold on eMovieposter for the $264 asking price, you would pay a 28% commission, or almost $74 - which isn't horrible compared to other sites. But if you sold it on MoviePosterExchange.com for that price you would only pay a $26.40 commission and even if it cost you $11 to send it to us, your effective rate would still be about half that of eMovieposter.com And again, we do appreciate the offer you gave us to list items on our site - if you will remember we even offered to have our programmers convert your information at our cost so you would not have to pay anything to do this and I apologize if your last email went unanswered. Ultimately it is probably for the best - the items we have listed for sale are from real collectors wishing to sell real posters, and not dealer leftovers that have been extinsively advertised elsewhere on the web to give the illusion of greater numbers. We are both committed to building a better hobby and giving customers the best possible service that they can ask for, certainly nothing wrong with that. Best of luck with your current auctions, Sunday's selection looks great and I am looking forward to seeing the rest. Sean From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 6:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Potential Conflict of Interest? Is Gavel-Snipe owned by Heritage? Just a clarification: When I saw that MoviePosterExchange had way less than 1,000 items listed, I offered to list my 700 fixed price items there, because it would nearly double their total, I was naive enough to believe that nearly doubling their listings would be something they might want to do (perhaps just to create the illusion they were getting lots more listings) and I was willing to help this new enterprise out, even though at best it might result in a handful of sales for me, and that would not even come close to covering the cost of my programmers converting our auctions to fit their software. But when I took the time to read their terms of sale, I realized that it would be eMoviePoster.com who would have to pay for the shipping to MoviePosterExchange and that the customer would not pay us back for that. So this means that when we sold a $30 poster, we would pay MoviePosterExchange a $3 commission, PLUS the approximately $11 shipping. So we would pay $14 to sell a $30 poster. It gets even worse the lower the price goes. On a $20 poster we would pay $13, and on a $10 poster we would pay $12, for a net LOSS of $2 for every $10 poster we sold! Now of course, we sell lots of fixed price posters that sell for the above amounts (and even quite a bit less), and many dealers have mostly items they ask much higher prices for, so maybe for them, MoviePosterExchange is a truly viable option (for example, on a $100 poster, they would pay around $21 counting shipping, even less if they pack less securely than we do. But once I realized the above, I knew the only way we COULD possibly list our items there was if we could send them directly to their buyers, and I asked if we could do that. I never even got a reply of any kind, and I apologize for apparently unknowingly insulting them. I wish them the best of luck with their enterprise, and hope they have great success with their April auction. 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