John, there can be no doubt that fleaBay does sell the most material,
if that is the measure of what makes you great
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Movie-Memorabilia-/196/i.html?LH_Auction=1&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc
in the last 90 days, that's 100,000 plus items across all categories.
okay you have to remove the chatchkies and the blankets, but
virtually every other category there is sold by he who sells the most
otherwise and fleaBay outsells him by far.
as far as "all the items where the buyer never paid".. well I know
for a fact that all dealers -auction and otherwise - have to deal
with this issue.
the same person who said the above when promoting his sales database
explains that they remove items where the buyer does not pay, so
insinuating that when others have non-payers it is a bad thing seems
a little foolish at best and false narrative at worst
why doesn't fleaBay get more very expensive items to sell? well if
you're selling a Frankenstein insert, are you going to give it to
Heritage or are you going to list it on fleaBay?? When Shapiro sold
the Metropolis poster in 2000 Heritage was not selling posters and
Shapiro apparently didn't want to sell via another dealer because he
could just as well list the poster on the same site it would be
listed at at the time anyway, so why pay someone else his 20%?
at one point I was interested in selling way lots of material
annually. But after trying a 52-week auction format, knowing what my
costs were doing it and how much time it took (and wasted), I
realized that it has nothing to do with "who sells the most". It has
to do with "who sells the best". I am more interested now is selling
fewer items, but BETTER items and if who sells the most "Best Stuff"
or "Who does the most dollars" is the yardstick, there can't be any
doubt that Heritage is the absolute gorilla in the room. Their weekly
Sunday sales of 500 posters average $40,000 in results and their 3
Signature auctions do almost $2,000,000. each (they were doing even
more during the high days of 2006-07-08). That's about $8mil
annually.. The champions!
myself, once my helper Valerie decided that going to UNLV, working
for a credit card company and working for me was too much for her and
excused herself from her job, followed by my longtime secretary Anna
finally segueing to her dream job of "Spiritual Counseling", leaving
me by myself to do the auctions (no, I did not fire anyone, even
though one uninformed person stated I had on his Facebook page when
he was whining) I was finally able to change to my monthly schedule
(with some in between auctions) and selling fewer items of better
quality, I can say that I am being more successful now on 12 auctions
than I was on 52 (again, the opposite of what one uniformed person
posted to his Facebook page) and I have more time to deal with other material.
so while I can't say that "I have sold the most" or "I have sold the
best of the best" I can reliably say "I don't care". My ego is not
built on how much material I sell.
That said, MoviePosterBid.com is the best thing to happen to humanity
since sliced bread
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