Only around 27,000 of the eventual 200,000 added images are "stock".
As you say, they *ARE *all images of the posters we actually sold, just that they are not all matched up to which one we sold which day back between 1990 and 2005. The "Police Call" 3-sheet described above is a perfect example. We had a dozen or more of that poster, and we auctioned them one by one. We *COULD *spend hours trying to match up the multiple images we have of it to those dozen or more auctions, but instead we just take a good image, put "*STOCK IMAGE*" on it, and add it to the dozen or more results for that title. In the big scheme of things, does it really matter for this title? But for the vast majority of the other 173,000 or so images, we *ARE *adding the actual image of what we sold on that day (but on some, we have slight doubts, so we will mark that on those images). So that is nice to have so many more images added, even if they are from 1990 to 2005, because in a fair number of cases that is the *ONLY *time we sold that item. Is it worth the huge amount of money I spent on labor sorting out and identifying 200,000 images? Surely not. But the end result will be a wonderful database that will be of even more use than it is already. On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jeff Potokar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html>! * > Our *Auction History Database > <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html> * 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: > > <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/1276879.html>----------> > [image: #227 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 40x60 '81 > Ford]<http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/1276879.html> > > And check out the results at this link: * > http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/film_title/POLICE%2520CALL/sort/13/archive.html > <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/film_title/POLICE%20CALL/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 <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html>*, 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 > <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html>* 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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