hi Rich , just wondering , you are 60 , you say there's over 1.000.000$ of non
movie poster related merchandise in your warehouse , over the last months you
have been intensively sending out emails to get people to consign movie
posters to you , which i suppose means you have a market for them with
movieposterbid.com and yet ... you want to handle this by yourself , there's
so much unemployment , you have over a million$ of stuff to go in your
warehouse but you won't offer someone a job ?
i think they're 30 employees working at emovieposter.com , they manage (movie
related items only) 3 auctions a week and yet Bruce does probably make a very
comfortable profit for himself . Heritage has all working well for them too ,
with all their employees so really , offer someone a job !! filip
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:20:18 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [MOPO] MoviePosterBid Auctions being rescheduled and other notices
> about the future of auctions
> To: [email protected]
>
> Hi Folks.
>
> I've been getting some queries about what's going on at
> MoviePosterBid.com as my schedules have been rather erratic for the
> past few months
>
> I had announced an autographs auction that was going to begin today,
> but I won't be making it.
>
> I've been working on a number of projects for the past several months
> all related to my other collectibles stuff and it's been reducing the
> schedule of available time to do movie poster auctions
>
> Why is this happening?
>
> Well it's like this, since I took over & started doing a regular
> auction on MoviePosterBid.com in 2006, for the past 8 years I have
> done almost nothing else other than my auctions.
> For 7 years, this was a weekly process that I had assistants for, but
> my Secretary of many years Anna moved on last May and I'd been
> handling it mostly by myself until my friend Brian had started
> helping me a few months back.
>
> Doing these auctions is a real job.. Creating, photographing,
> listing, shipping (and all the other attendant work for an auction)
> is 160 hours work. For most people 160 hours is full time job and
> they would be correct, it is indeed a full time job. In retrospect,
> it's hard to understand how I did this for 7 years on a weekly
> rotation and while I have been doing a monthly or even bi-weekly
> series for a while, the combination of all the other work and the
> auctions means something has got to give.
>
> For instance, for all of that 7 years, my warehouse, which is full of
> other material aside from movie posters has pretty much laid
> untouched, which means that nearly $1,000,000 of merchandise has been
> effectively not for sale. Comic books, original comic art, pulp
> magazines, movie & other magazines, miscellaneous items of all kinds
> and who-knows-what have sat, mostly untouched except for when boxes
> needed to be moved so that I could get at the movie posters behind
> them. It's something I can't ignore anymore.
>
> I must process and list all that stuff. Turn it into cash and trade.
> Get it out of my overstuffed and disorganized 2200 sqft of racked and
> shelved warehouse.
> As a result, I have been far more busy working in the back of the
> building than in the front and no question, movie poster auctions
> have taken a back seat.
> For the near term this is not going to change. I have to get this
> work done and it is going to take the rest of this year at least. My
> ambitions make me think I can do all this work and fast, but as I
> near 60, I'm finally coming to the conclusion that I can't work like
> I did when I was 35.
>
> What that means is that I will not be able to adhere to a regular
> bi-weekly auction schedule, though it does not mean I will not be
> doing auctions. It just means that sometimes an auction will be
> happening and sometimes not. I had an auction of autographed items
> announced that would start today, but is being delayed not just
> because of the work I have in back, but also because I'm leaving
> Thursday for L.A. to be at the Ray Courts Celebrities Show return in
> Burbank http://courtscelebritiesshow.com/
> Ray did his shows for many years, sold out & is now coming back.. and
> I'm going!
>
> None the less, I can't get the auction listed in time and rather than
> keep saying "an auction is coming now" I'm going to reschedule it for
> after my return from LA. I will enlarge this auction and the
> autographed items will just be a part of the sale along with folded
> posters and lobby cards. This begins October 5th and will not be
> rescheduled, so you can mark your calendars
>
> Moving forward, I have been asking new consignors to wait for me as I
> clean up all the work I have and get back to a proper point to handle
> their material. Thankfully, they have all stated that they would wait
> for me and I have some nice collections lined up, so when I get back
> to a real schedule, you folks will be very happy.
>
> meanwhile, if you are looking for collectibles to buy, I am currently
> processing text lists for comic books, pulps, Big Little Books, art,
> magazines and other collectibles as well as a very large list of movie posters
> Some material has been listed in the MoviePosterBid.com Supermarket
> for ready sale
> http://www.movieposterbid.com/index.php?option=com_mijoshop&view=home&Itemid=537
>
> and you can find some comics listings at the CGC comics boards
> http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8016543&fpart=1
> http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027017&fpart=1
> http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027019&fpart=1
> http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8051418#Post8051418
>
> Also, while we are re-aligning everything here, I'm going to get the
> programmer to fix some bugs on MPB that have been irritating me as
> well as bidders. Hopefully they can figure out pretty soon what the
> solutions are.
>
> In any case, thanks for reading everyone. It's been a long road and
> the road hasn't ended.. It goes on into the distance. I hope I find
> you waiting at the next rest stop
>
> thanks
> Rich
>
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