Not me. I only auction cheap junk. I leave major posters like these to the heavyweights of the hobby, like MoviePosterExchange or Heritage.
Bruce On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > I have inside information that Rudyard Kipling collected classic silent > movie posters. In fact, he had an original Greed one sheet on his living > room wall the night that he died. Will that one sheet eventually appear in > Bruce's auction or in Heritage? Only time will tell. > > In a message dated 4/23/2012 6:41:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > P.S. I just was re-reading this classic poem, and it seems to fit this > discussion quite well: > > If you can keep your head when all about you > Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; > If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, > But make allowance for their doubting too: > If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, > Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, > Or being hated don't give way to hating, > And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; > > If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; > If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim, > If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster > And treat those two impostors just the same:. > If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, > Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, > And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; > > If you can make one heap of all your winnings > And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, > And lose, and start again at your beginnings, > And never breathe a word about your loss: > If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew > To serve your turn long after they are gone, > And so hold on when there is nothing in you > Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" > > If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, > Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, > If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, > If all men count with you, but none too much: > If you can fill the unforgiving minute > With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, > Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, > And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Bruce Hershenson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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> >> >> > > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. 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