Geraldine,
Personally, I send all of my high-end pieces to Bruce H., but, man. all
this constant negative B.S. about Heritage Auctions is in my estimation truly
getting old. Even if Grey Smith was the Devil incarnate, I'd be growing
weary of your constant diatribes I have no doubt that most members of Mopo
feel the same way. but are too polite to say what they think it to you. If
I'm wrong, Mopo. please lie me on a bed of nails and let Rich find great
pleasure in urinating on me!
For all of us, Geraldine, please silence yourself about all this
worn-out bullshit,
Sincerely,
Rick Ryan
rixposterz
In a message dated 6/8/2012 6:49:55 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Seems to me the director of a professional auction company would not say,
"Don't worry, we have your posters tagged and inventoried" unless they did
have them tagged.
Seems to me, a professional auction company doing what is close to a
billion dollars worth of annual sales would have a very good double-ledger
type
of accounting software tied to a database which could help staff evaluate
poster's worth and track it's movement through their system. That same
software would not allow an employee to simply remove it's existence from
their
inventory.
Seems to me if a professional auction company has high end Signature
auctions and weekly low-end auctions, posters going in the low-end auction
would
be in the same database.
Seems to me, if a company like Bruce's which does a high volume of annual
sales is capable of keeping track of their customer's inventory, a company
like Heritage, which specialized in high end Signature auctions, should be
able to keep track of inventory....
The question is, does a high end company like Heritage depend on their
customer's inventory to evaluate a poster's worth or a shipment? Doubt it.
____________________________________
From: John Waldman <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Seems to me a professional auction company would tell the customer to do a
inventory. Not everyone knows what to do when they are selling something
at auction. It's not an everyday occurrence after all.
A little customer service goes a long way.
JW
From: Geraldine Kudaka <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
These conversations move very rapidly, especially when one gets loopy
after a lot of hours writing emails. My apologies...
I don't know if you've been following the discussion about our submissions
to Heritage and our stock -- which we had been told by Grey were tagged
and inventoried -- "disappearing". We were never paid for them and they
weren't returned.
After Heritage only listed a portion of our posters on their inventory,
Rudy Franchi told us Heritage didn't want the common posters -- like the
Judge Dredd double sided transparency posters used in light box marquees we
had
sent in our first consignment batch -- and suggested we consign the higher
valued posters to Heritage, and common posters like the aforementioned
Dredd to Bruce.
I posted my submission to Bruce on MOPO because there was a lot of talk
about my responsibility for sending an un-inventoried lot to Heritage. In
fact, some MOPOers said I was to blame for their "disappearance" at Heritage
because I hadn't inventoried them or pursued Grey about their status.
Well, at the same time we sent our 2nd batch of posters to Heritage, we
sent an equal sized consignment batch to Bruce. Like the Heritage consignment,
this consignment to Bruce was not inventoried.
I haven't been posting Bruce illegally appropriated my goods because there
wasn't a problem with payments or returns.
The deal was straight ahead and worked without any effort on my part.
And if Bruce wears a kilt or has good legs... well, I couldn't say.
From: Rix Posterz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Wait...maybe I missed something. Does Bruce wear a kilt? Is that what
you're saying?
In a message dated 6/6/2012 5:44:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I did forget to mention you, Bruce... Sorry.. Mistake as you were the
inspiration for my disgruntled attitude... Your regular payments to our Paypal
account was what kept Heritage's lack of payments in the forefront of my
mind.
Even though your company has done phenomenally well -- an inspiration for
any ebay seller that yes, there is life after ebay -- Heritage gets more
press because of their huge glossy catalog and high dollar items...
But you've proven that reliability is more important than big glossies.
Reminds me of a producer I knew who accidentally started investing in coin
operated laundromats. He loved it. Said all those quarters were the
easiest way to rake in the money, and he didn't have to deal with whining
actors
and residuals. All it took was a part time handyman to keep those machines
running.
Quarters add up faster than big checks that never clear.
From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]>
To: Geraldine Kudaka <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Bruce vs Heritage inventory & auciton services
Thanks much! That is the huge advantage of having 26 people working here,
compared to just a handful (or just two) at many other places. And of
course it is not just your consignment, but all the ones we receive (which can
be very daunting, since we receive thousands of items per week, of all
sizes, from all countries, and from all years). This past Sunday we even added
TOYS to our Sunday lineup!
Our job is to make it EASY for collectors to dispose of unwanted items,
and to help them get more than they could if they sold them to a dealer. If
they need to have notarized lists of what they sent (complete with videos of
them placing the items into packages and taking them to the Post Office!)
then we no longer serve that function, and our consignors will go
elsewhere.
Bruce
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Geraldine Kudaka
<[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote:
One point, which Sean inspired me to put into my email rebuttal -- is
actually a very important point which I didn't bring up earlier because it
wasn't relevant.
The same day we shipped out this 2nd batch of 30-40 un-inventoried posters
to Heritage, we also shipped a batch of the same 30-40 batch size to Bruce.
We packed them at the same time, and took them both to be shipped,
insured... of course.
Bruce immediately responded by email, and we started getting sales reports
& payments to our Paypal account.
In fact, it was Bruce's regular payments that caused us to start
questioning why we hadn't heard from Heritage.
So here's to Bruce, for handling out 30-40 un-inventoried posters in a
responsible, professional way.
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