eMoviePoster.com has an excellent group of 419 very oversized rolled items
and very oversized flat items (including a wonderful collection of 89
vintage board games) closing Sunday at
http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/4/15.html (starting at 3PM CDT,
NOT 7 PM, like our Tuesday and Thursday auctions). If you collect any sort
of movie memorabilia, and if you like the rare and the unusual, you really
need to check these out because a LOT of these are incredibly rare. Yet
NONE have reserves or buyers premiums, and ALL will actually sell to the
high bidders, regardless of the final bid price.
And the offerings are more varied than just about any auction we do,
because they cover so many different types of collectibles (including 41
Forty By Sixties, 89 vintage board games, 5 ultra-rare giant billboard
posters, 47 rolled (not folded) French one-panels, 10 ultra-rare 22x28
jumbo window cards, and so much more, items we rarely include in any other
set of auctions we hold). There are also 42 half-sheets and 5 inserts that
are included here because they are fragile enough that they MUST be sent in
large flat packages (and those are mostly super-rare or one-of-a-kind!).
There are also 19 special and commercial posters (U.S. and non-U.S.) that
are under 29" wide and DO fit in standard 30" tubes, but these are very
long, so they can't be combined with standard width posters, only with each
other.
And yet, in spite of the great rarity of most of these items, there are
somehow currently still ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN of these at just $1 (24
currently have NO bid at all, so a single $1 bid might win some of those!)
and 235 at just $1 to $9 (and we have no "buyers premiums", so "$1" is
REALLY $1, and NOT "$1, plus $19 buyers premium")! But DO remember that
most of these have higher than usual shipping charges, and some have much
higher than usual shipping charges, so bear the shipping in mind BEFORE you
place bids (see below for much more on this).
The current low, low bid prices mean that, if a lot more bids aren't
placed, it will be mostly dealers who buy these items (and remember that we
offer all buyers, on request, an unwatermarked supersized image of every
item they buy, so dealers can quickly add their purchases to their websites
or eBay stores with little time or effort!
But remember that ALL of the items are in this set of auctions for one of
four reasons:
1) Many of the items have to be sent in VERY large flat packages (some the
size of inserts or half-sheets, but some even larger). Many of these are
fragile inserts or half-sheets that CAN'T be rolled (many unbelievably
rare!) and this also includes the 89 board games
2) Some of the items have to be sent separately because they are NOT
"combine-able"
3) Many of the items are very large "roll-able" posters that have to be
sent in tubes over 32" long
4) Some of the items are posters that can be sent in standard tubes under
32" long, but because they are extremely long, they may have to be sent by
themselves (or solely with very similar posters).
What does all of the above shipping information mean to YOU, the bidders?
It means that a lot of these will cost either somewhat more to ship ($20 or
$30 in the U.S. vs $12 in the U.S. had they been standard sized), some will
cost a LOT more to ship ($50 or $75), and a few will cost a MASSIVE amount
to ship ($100 or more, and those are all giant flat items that are clearly
marked, AND WE REQUEST THAT NON-U.S. BIDDERS DON'T BID ON THOSE GIANT ITEMS
AT ALL).
But there is a simple way to deal with this for those items that have very
high shipping costs (the ones that need to be sent in VERY large flat
packages or really long tubes)! Just include the approximate shipping
amount in what you bid. So if you were willing to pay $100, and you think
the shipping might be $50, then only bid $50, so you pay a total of $100
($50 for your bid, plus $50 for shipping). And the most important thing is
that WE WILL COMBINE YOUR PURCHASES FROM THIS AUCTION OF 409 ITEMS INTO AS
FEW PACKAGES OR TUBES AS POSSIBLE! That means that if you purchase five
items that cost $50 each to send, but they ARE "combine-able", then you
will pay just $50 for ALL FIVE ITEMS, so that greatly lowers the cost per
item. We are "on your side" and will do all we can to combine these items,
as long as it is safe to do so.
We absolutely want to combine as much as possible, and we will do
everything we can to have your purchases packed in as few packages as
possible, but there is a limit to how much combining we can do. This is
because sometimes combining items would surely result in some of them
getting damaged (so please be understanding of how many packages we tell
you your purchases are packed in). In some cases the individual auctions
may say that an item can't be combined with other posters, but that may not
always be true. After the auctions all end, we will evaluate what each
person won, and do ALL WE CAN to end up with the smallest number of
packages or tubes.
This also means that once you are pretty certain you will get any ONE item,
then you can add more "combine-able" items to that, and hardly up the
shipping at all. For example, this auction contains 41 Forty By Sixty
posters. It doesn't cost much more to send five rather than one (in a
single tube). The same is true of all the items that need to go in large
flat packages. Once you get any ONE large flat item, we can almost surely
add several more large flat items to that package at not that much extra
cost.
And here is one last incredible offer! IF YOU EVER HAD THE DESIRE TO VISIT
OUR OPERATION (and see how we do all we do, but especially if you have ever
considered coming here to drop off consignments to us, as happens with some
of our thousands of consignors at least once or twice every month), then
know this! WE WILL "HOLD" ANY ITEMS YOU PURCHASE FROM TODAY'S AUCTIONS OF
419 ITEMS, AND WE WILL HOLD THEM FOR UP TO FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE AUCTIONS
CLOSE (but you must pay for them within two weeks, and this offer is only
good for these 419 items, and not any other items we auction)!
So bear in mind that you can buy any of these 419 "very oversized" rolled
and flat items for no shipping cost at all, as long as you pick them up in
person within FOUR MONTHS! You may well get incredible buys on many of
these, because you won't need to pay any shipping at all, and that will
give you all the more reason to visit West Plains. This especially makes
sense if you have a lot of items you have long considered selling, and have
wondered how you would get them to us! When you consign a LOT of items, if
you mail them, you have to carefully pack them all, and the shipping on a
LOT of items can be considerable and you have to worry about some of them
getting damaged on their way to us.
But if you instead DRIVE the items to us (or have a friend or relative do
so) you hardly have to pack them at all, and if you buy any of our current
"oversized" items you can leave your consignments off and then bring back
what you just purchased (and remember, if you pay for them now, you can
wait up to four months to make your trip here! And I will "sweeten the
deal" to anyone who comes to pick up purchases from these auctions. I will
give you a deluxe tour of our operation, PLUS I will buy you and your
companion lunch (and go with you if I possibly can)! Everyone who comes
here is amazed at the size and scope of our operation (we have an ENTIRE
city block, and there is nothing like it anywhere in the world)!
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