>wow that's great Bruce !!! i am so glad you found that data! also
shows a growth pattern.. best of luck for many more years of success
you have done a good job.
>
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [MOPO] We recently discovered complete records of our
>very first online sales from May 1999!
>Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 15:42:18 -0500
>
>>*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)
>>our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/>
>>our auctions <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html>
>>
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>>* Hershenson Help
>>Hotline<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/20120906_mc
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>>*Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems*
>>*Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth* Customer
>Reviews *of
>>our company * - Page
>>1<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page
>1.jpg>,
>>Page
>2<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page2
>.jpg>,
>>Page
>3<http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page3
>.jpg>
>>*, 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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