you know filip, collectibles are an interesting item and in Las Vegas
a bit more challenging
I have 3 total customers in this town and I actually did employ one
for a while. Cinema Collectors had a guy doing some part time but he
actually already has a really good job and did it for fun
Brian, my current help who just left here is a non-collector. he
might know something, but this out of his realm, which is the problem
with most people and therefore, it is impossible for them to do
anything reasonably well in this field.
also, let us not forget that when you have many employees, you have
lots of expenses. Someone may sell $5mil worth of stuff, but by the
time 30 employees are paid, you really aren't making all that much
anymore. I can sell my stuff at a huge discount and make the same (or
maybe even more) with 1-2 employees on $500k in sales and I can even
take the time to sell lots of it until I die (as will probably be the
case as with most dealers) because while I have golfed, golfing is
not one of my hobbies
on consignments.. hey, I might have a batch of Pulp Fiction posters,
piles of Hard Day's Night re-issue, Indiana Jones and Star Wars.. I
don't have lots of great 1900-1960 stuff anymore.
I no longer have a stack of Asphalt Jungle or Barbarella or 2001 one
sheets. I ran out of Saucermen lobby cards a long time ago and while
I may have had lots of 1950s posters once, now - not so much. So I
need consignments and as always I buy collections and always have. I
wish I could buy more of them.. that way I can take what I want.. and
add the rest to that big pile o'stuff I have workin in this
warehouse, where I am toiling right now
;- )
At 08:43 PM 9/23/2014, filip de volder wrote:
hi Rich , just wondering , you are 60 , you say there's over
1.000.000$ 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: sa...@comic-art.com
> Subject: [MOPO] MoviePosterBid Auctions being rescheduled and
other notices about the future of auctions
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>
> 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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