Hi Rich Thanks for the link. When you filter the link for the sales results of the last 90 days to start with the highest prices it comes up with some interesting results.... http://www.ebay.com/sch/Movie-Memorabilia-/196/i.html?LH_Auction=1&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_sop=3
A Mad Love lobby card sold for 13,871.00 A couple of This Gun for Hire one sheets 14,100.00 and 11,817.00 >From Russia with Love quad 6,250.00 Dial M for Murder french 3,605.00 Invasion of the Saucer Men 1sh 3250.00 and quite a few posters around the 1000.00 mark Nothing too remarkable considering the huge number of posters that were sold during the period. Regards John JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Websites: www.moviemem.com www.OzeFilm.com www.OzeAuction.com www.BodyCorporateNews.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/moviemem Mailing Address: John Reid PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Which venue sells the most movie posters? 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 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
