My sincere and heartfelt apologies to any and all who very kindly participated
as sellers or buyers in what is clearly turning into the worst-realized movie
poster auction in history, which unfortunately for me bears my name as curator
and cataloger. For what it's worth, I too suffer financially with all the other
consignors in that not only have I not been paid for my sales (for which
Premiere was likely paid 3 months ago)but worse still, I worked over 2 months
on speculation against a percentage of the hammer prices, and have yet to see
that as well. In comparison, while I was putting the auction together, I also
consigned some of my own things to Profiles in History, whose auction was a
full month after Premiere, and I was paid for those sales almost 2 months ago.
As for promotion and catalogs, I made as many linked highlight announcements on
MOPO that I felt wouldn't irritate all of you, as there is already so much of
that filling up MOPO each day. I gave the owners of Premiere a copy of Classic
Images LONG before the auction for him to run an ad, and he waited til last
second, as they also did with the catalog text I gave them, for whatever reason
they couldn't get the catalog printed until 3 days before the auction. When
they asked me in last fall to mount their first-ever full-auction day of movie
posters (they have years of experience with props and costumes) they seemed
like nice, sincere, and at least reasonably professional people, but that is
now proving to not be the case, so all I can do is apologize to those who
joined Todd Spoor and me in trying out this (failed) experiment. Your
(friend?) in the hobby for over 40 years, Daniel Strebin/ postermandan
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