There would not have been many Movie Poster dealer websites back in 1998. That
was still a time when many people did business over the phone or through Movie
Collectors World and fairs, etc. I started selling on ebay in 1998 and sold a
heck of a lot of posters despite not having any photos for the listings and
only brief descriptions. It was amazing how many customers would buy posters
sight unseen just based on the description. In those days you could leave
feedback for anyone even if you did not have a transaction going. A guy
threatened to leave me negative feedback because I outbid him once. Customers
used to send payment through the mail and it would take a couple of weeks to
get to Australia and then a couple of weeks before they received their posters
but they didnt seem to mind waiting.
When paypal started up, they offerred me a 10.00 "finders fee" for anyone who
signed up to pay for purchasing any of my items. That was a good earner for a
while!
I have used the Wayback Machine a lot searching archived websites. Its
frustrating that some are blocked but it is fascinating to see how sites have
evolved over the years.
Regards
John
JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA
Websites:
www.moviemem.com
www.OzeFilm.com
www.OzeMoviePoster.com
www.OzeAuction.com
www.BodyCorporateNews.com
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/moviemem
Mailing Address:
John Reid
PO Box 92
Elanora
Qld 4221
Australia
From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Monday, 3 March 2014 11:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] Have you been buying from us for 16 years? Then you will
remember this!
Have you been buying from us for 16 years? Then you will remember this!
Sometime in 1998, even though I was the #1 movie poster dealer in the world, I
realized I HAD to have a website.
So I hired my uncle, Eli Post, to create one, which I stupidly called
"brucehershenson.com" (this would create major problems years later; see below).
Here is the earliest screenshot I can find of that site, from December 12,
1998 (of course, some of the links don't work, but surprisingly, many do!).
http://web.archive.org/web/19981212023407/http://www.brucehershenson.com/
After I changed my website name from brucehershenson.com to
emovieposter.com, I naturally wanted to switch brucehershenson.com to
emovieposter.com. But by that time I had a zillion links all over the Internet
to "brucehershenson.com" addresses. So I had all those pages re-direct to the
same named emovieposter.com pages.
Well, Google, in its infinitely wisdom, saw this as some kind of scam, so
all pages on both sites were greatly punished in "natural search" even though I
was far and away the number one vintage movie poster site!
But over time, the massive content of emovieposter.com (around a million
images, and a massive amount of valuable content) eventually overcame this, but
still it was a sad problem for a long time.
--
Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775
Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take
lunch)
our site
our auctions
Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO
buyer beware
Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for
urgent problems
Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth Customer
Reviews of our company - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, which shows you in our
customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very
different from all others!
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Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775
Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take
lunch)
our site
our auctions
Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware
Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent
problems
Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth Customer
Reviews of our company - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, which shows you in our
customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very
different from all others!
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
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Send a message addressed to: [email protected]
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
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