God, I am glad that I didn’t consign anything to that auction. That would irritate me to death. And while I’m sure that Dan Strebin was punked on this, I can understand Jim Gresham’s disgust. It’s abusive.
Kirby On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Jeff Potokar <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like Premiere Props is having another auction this weekend. > > It's called Hollywood Auction Extravaganza XIII > > https://www.premiereprops.com/live_auctions_pre.php > > So it seems they are carrying on with business. > > Jeff > > > > > On Mar 21, 2014, at 5:18 AM, James Gresham wrote: > >> 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 >> www.childrenofthenightbook.com >> www.theyreherealreadybook.com >> >> To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 >> > > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com https://www.facebook.com/movieart.austin.texas mobile 512 589 5112 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.
