read it again filip, I said nothing of a sort
and theatres don't sell movie posters. If they did, it wouldn't
contribute one penny to movie poster dealers as all the money would
be going to the corporations that own teh theatres.
At 10:08 PM 2/13/2015, filip de volder wrote:
so you mean that the majority of movie poster collectors do so as
an investment ? that's not a reality , that's just something you
come up with based on nothing (and you should not deny it) ...
the so called investment posters are probably less then 1% of all
movie posters sold worldwide
that goes for any collecting field really , comic books , vinyl
records , 99% are being bought by collectors , not by investors .
you seem to have quite some distorted view there although your own
business reality should prove you wrong , all those belgian posters
at 1$ , common recent one sheets etc you sell can not be bought as
an investment really ?
as for the "few places to buy movie posters" , am i wrong or are
there 40.000 movie theaters in the usa ?
filip
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:41:39 -0800
From: sa...@comic-art.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] How MoPo has changed!
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
not so sure about that Dave. Of course the fact that there are few
places to buy movie posters may be one factor, but I got my first
movie posters when I was maybe 10 and I know that when I was 11 I
bought lots of them (some I still have)
I think the reality is that the poster hobby has changed
considerably from a nostalgiac appreciation to a a sideshow of a memory.
at the same time, the missing apparatus of "posters as a true
investment vehicle" doesn't do anything to help because we all know
that when people buy physical property they generally expect it to
increase in value.
That much of the material has a deteriorating value is anathema to
that interest and creates a real turn-off to prospective buyers.
I wish it were different, but reality is what it is and there is no
need for me or anyone else to deny it
At 09:43 PM 2/12/2015, David Rew wrote:
But Rich, you always say the same thing so succinctly and
interestingly...I just luv hearing it!
I think we would all agree collecting movie posters is a very very
small hobby in comparison to comic book collecting and although I
don't know much about collecting comic books, I suspect vintage
poster collecting as a 'serious' hobby is a much younger one too.
After all many collectors would enter the comic collecting at a far
younger age whereas perhaps a large portion of movie poster
collectors come into it in their 30s and 40s when they are reliving
the movies of their youth/teens, and have a more disposable income?
Perhaps?
regards,
David Rew
[mob] 0402 925 158
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