Hi Rich
Your email probably applies to a lot of us. I am in my early 60s and
suddenly starting to realise that my warehouse full of posters has
gotten
out of control. When I look at it all I sometimes wonder how I could
have
accumulated so much over the last twenty years or so. It's certainly
true
that you can't keep up the same pace forever but you still have to move
the
stock that you have or maybe even throw a lot of it away.
Ultimately, I think we all have to wind down a bit from time to time.
Regards
John
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From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Richard
Halegua Posters + Comic Art
Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2014 6:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] MoviePosterBid Auctions being rescheduled and other
notices
about the future of auctions
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=8016
543&fpart=1
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027
017&fpart=1
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8027
019&fpart=1
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=8051
418#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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