> As far as the eighties posters, I'll take a garage full of them, if you can
> find them. They sell pretty well, if they are good titles.
Kirby,
I agree, however the GOOD titles do well from ANY decade, the question is: What
will be considered a 'good' title decades later?
As in any other collectibles market, if you're buying for investment purposes,
you have to know what you're doing. This goes for posters from any period, it's
obviously not limited to the 1980s.
If you had bought that garage full of 1980s posters for 10 cents a piece twenty
years ago, you could certainly make money today, if you paid $10 a pop, hoping
that each and every one of them would be worth at least $50 today, you would
still have a hard time getting your money back...
Let's face it, the number of RAIN MEN (still a solid $4 title at emovieposter)
far outnumbers the FERRIS BUELLER Internationals, that can sell for $750-$1,000.
While some titles are obviously more desirable than others, 1980s poster
certainly don't qualify as 'busted collectibles'.
I don't know about the US, but over here, PHONE CARDS were THE big 'investment
opportunity' in the late 1980s and early 90s, the prepaid cards made to be used
in public phone booths. Within a few years, an whole industry developed around
them and the market was FLOODED by the darn things.
For a few years, 'limited editions' were all over the place, with the 'top'
titles selling for four-digit amounts. Ten thousands of collectors believed in
the amazing 'investment potential', until one day, mobile phones came along...
;-(
Now, if you're lucky, and you have enough time, I'm sure you can still find
someone who'll pay you 50c for what once was a '$1,000 phone card', but 99.9%
are worth exactly NOTHING these days... THAT'S what I call a busted investment!
Helmut
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