Nice. Very valuable resource. On 16 Feb 2014, at 11:21, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
> The very best online database of movie poster sales results and images just > got MUCH better: tens of thousands of images added to our Auction History > Database! > Our Auction History Database contained over 900,000 results from our > past auctions over the past 24 years, but only 700,000 or so images. Why were > around 200,000 images missing? They were from auctions from mid-2005 and > before, when we did not "save" our auctions in their entirety, and just the > results, and while we DID save the images separately, we had no easy way to > "match up" the 200,000 or so images to the correct results. > > So on those records we placed an image that said "No image at present, but we > are working on it!" (see below). NOW, we have spent tens of thousands of > dollars "matching up" those missing images, and we have started added them in! > > First, we were able to find tens of thousands of images where we were 100% > they were "exact matches", so we added those to those records with no > explanation (because none was needed!). > > But there were tens of thousands of others where we had sold the item in > question many times, and it would have been next to impossible to match up > all those, so for those we simply added a high quality image of that item, > along with the words "STOCK IMAGE" added to the right side of each. > > What does this mean? Here is an example where we did this: > > ----------> > > And check out the results at this link: > http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/film_title/POLICE%2520CALL/sort/13/archive.html. > You'll see that each of the Police Call three-sheets have the same "stock" > image AND that five additional results for that title have images (only one > record for that title is now "missing" an image, and we will be loading that > image - and many like it - soon as well!). When you view an item's page, you > will see a note "This is an eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this > mean?", and when you click on it, it explains the following: > > "For the vast majority of our auctions from mid-2005 to present, we ALWAYS > show an image that is the actual item we auctioned. But in the case of items > we auctioned from mid-2005 and before (except for most of the items from our > major auctions and our books), we usually don't have the exact image clearly > identified in our database, so for those few items we place "This is an > eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this mean?" underneath those images > to alert the viewer that the image may not be the exact example of the item > that was auctioned. This means that you shouldn't judge the value of the item > based on the condition of the image shown, and it is also possible that the > wrong style is shown, but this is not so important because these results are > from long ago (as far back as 1990!), and pricing information from that long > ago is usually not very helpful!" > > What does this leave? Most of the remaining "missing images" are either ones > where we likely have the image, but we are NOT 100% certain it is right, so > when we add those in we will have a "disclaimer" stating that, and we also > have the most difficult cases, which are lobby cards pr stills where we don't > know exactly which of the eight lobby cards we auctioned, and what image the > stills had, so we will have to come up with a different solution for those. > > But we will not rest until we fill in EVERY missing image! If you are one of > the tens of thousands of people who use this Auction History Database, then > you will see how many more images it contains the next time you use it. And > if you are one of the few movie poster collectors who does NOT use it, why > not go right now to the Auction History Database and see what you have been > missing, but beware, because it can be VERY addictive! > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. 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