Dan thanks for your response. I have also heard from Todd privately. After hearing these responses, I would say that clearly neither you or Todd is the problem here. Both you & Todd have always been first class guys. The problem falls to Premier Props. My only hope is that based upon your connections one of you can let us consigners know when we can actually expect payment? Secondly, I don't know if Premier Props intend to have future poster auctions, but I would hate to see others get stuck like this. Jim
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:38 AM, daniel strebin <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > -- Jim Gresham 18501 Henry Ct Ray Mi 48096 586 677-7669 www.greshamsnow.com <http://www.greshamsinc.com> www.childrenofthenightbook.com www.theyreherealreadybook.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
