*We recently discovered complete records of our very first online sales
from May 1999 (which had been "lost" for many years!)*
We have always known that we started auctioning on eBay early in May
of 1999, but our records from that time were in a very primitive Microsoft
Works table that we soon abandoned, and a few years later, when our
computers were being formatted, we *THOUGHT* the file with those sales had
been accidentally deleted (we now back up *EVERYTHING* in several ways, to
prevent this from ever happening again). But we just came across that table
among some super-old files, so not only are we now able to add our first
1,906 Internet sales ever (from May 7th, 1999 through the end of that year)
to our *Auction History
<http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html>*table, but we also
can right now share with you some interesting
information about how we began on eBay!
Our very first auctions ever were on 5/7/99, and they were three "test"
auctions of linenbacked one-sheets at $49.95 each, and the three posters
sold to three different buyers for the minimum bid (none of those three
buyers from May 7th, 1999 are still current customers). We added five
auctions on May 10th, five auctions on May 11th, and seven auctions on May
14th, and those started at a variety of prices, all well under the retail
value of the posters, and all sold (at that time, I solely auctioned
posters that I owned personally, because I knew that at first I would be
selling for under retail, sometimes "giving" the posters away, so I wanted
the loss to be mine and not that of any consignor, and it was not until
12/6/1999 that I first ran an auction for a consignor that was not a poster
I owned myself).
You can see a chart of those first 20 auctions below: *Date Sold* *Item
Title* *Item Size* *Price Sold* 5/7/1999 Young Philadelphians linen
one-sheet $49.95 5/7/1999 Tentacles linen one-sheet $49.95 5/7/1999 Two
Minute Warning linen one-sheet $49.95 5/10/1999 Beast Within pressbook $5.50
5/10/1999 Hunter pressbook $8.50 5/10/1999 Airplane pressbook $16.50
5/10/1999 Xanadu linen one-sheet $99.06 5/10/1999 Gauntlet folded
one-sheet $25.00 5/11/1999 Blues for Lovers linen one-sheet $49.95
5/11/1999 American Hot Wax linen one-sheet $50.00 5/11/1999 Fiddler on
the Roof linen one-sheet $50.95 5/11/1999 Oliver's Story pressbook $2.00
5/11/1999 Raiders of the Lost Ark pressbook $26.50 5/14/1999 Speedway folded
one-sheet $89.01 5/14/1999 Kagemusha Spanish folded one-sheet $4.95
5/14/1999 Silver Streak folded one-sheet $9.95 5/14/1999 Summer 1999
Sales List Sales List
$3.00 5/14/1999 Heaven Can Wait pressbook $12.09 5/14/1999 Meatballs
pressbook $15.50 5/14/1999 Spy Who Loved Me linen one-sheet $77.00
The first of the posters that were auctioned on May 10th was bought by one
of our current customers (in fact, he just had an order shipped last
week!), so we are awarding him an *Ultimate Bonus Offer* (containing books
with an original retail of around $500, plus a coffee table book that
retails for $50 or more, like Graven Images!), for being our longest term
current online customer (he has been buying from us on the Internet for 14
years)!
Starting on May 17th, we began adding around 10 auctions per day for four
days each week, and over the next few weeks, we began adding around 50
auctions per week. Over the course of the rest of 1999, we kept upping our
pace, and by the end of the year, we had auctioned 1,906 items! It is also
interesting to note that not all of these items were auctioned on eBay.
Four of those items we auctioned on May 11th were auctioned in
*AMAZON*auctions (yes, back then, Amazon had auctions just like
eBay's!). But the
Amazon auctions never really took off, and we quickly saw that the eBay
auctions were far superior, so only 70 of those 1,906 auctions were on
Amazon. Over the next three years, we saw really substantial growth, as
seen in the chart below:
*Year* *Items Sold* *Total Sales* 1999 1,906 $83,731.09 2000 17,165
$594,106.54
2001 23,311 $978,336.66 2002 31,785 $1,883,722.71
Of course, those numbers are dwarfed by our 2012 sales of 110,628 items for
a total of $4,072,951 (and our very similar numbers for our first half of
2013). You can find sales results for all the years from 2002 to the
present at * http://www.emovieposter.com/sales/postersales.php*. But the
above 1999 sales are how our online business began, and I thought many of
you would enjoy seeing this information (and I know that some number of you
have been customers of ours over this entire 14 year period, and I thank
you very much!).
--
Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 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)
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*, which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our
company and our auctions so very different from all others!
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