Sounds like a great, addition, Bruce. Big job.. but worth it.
And since the Stock Images are also copies you have sold, they still
originate from your auctions.
Look forward to perusing.
On Feb 16, 2014, at 3:21 AM, 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:
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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!
--
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