Sounds like you have it all figured out. Best of luck! On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Bruce > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 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) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> <http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/signature/20111028Frankensteinemployeegroupphotosignature.jpg> 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.
