Dale - Thanks so MUCH for the detailed reply. Whenever I'm at a cinema, I see "now playing" posters on display as well as "coming soon" posters - but most don't have ratings at all and I surmised that shelf relevance and convenience are the reasons why so few posters are on display with final MPAA ratings.
I also liked your description of edge wear that are not dings - e.g., "spider-vein" impact creases. (Until now, I didn't know how to describe this type of defect that sometimes can't be framed out nor described in words - (I generally use photos and attach them to sellers who send me posters with such defects). Thank you also for clarifying the rippling issue as well as its true relationship to reverse rolling vs. tube diameter. I just couldn't see how anyone can hand-roll 27 x 40 paper - BACK INTO a one-inch wide plastic sleeve without tools - or a helluva lot of practice. It would be impossible for me without causing damage. Finally, Dale - if anyone can find a way to get a pristine R rated Once Upon A Time in Hollywood poster, it would be you. (If you can't - then I'm thinking almost no one else can, especially not now, four months after release. But I've bought a few new titles from you over the years as gifts and they always arrive PRISTINE. If you can find this in comparable condition to what you ship out, I'll pay way more now. What's the point of buying this title with the R rating - (avg. price so far has ranged from $68 to $129 with shipping) - when they arrive replete with these glaring defects? I'm hoping the R-versions are still out there - but most sellers only have the USA unrated or international COMING SOON posters, for the reasons you describe. Thank you again! *resigned* David ________________________________ From: MoPo List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dale Dilts <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2019 6:26 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: WTB - (VERY BAD LUCK!) - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - DS OS with R Rating. (NM to M) Few quick hit notes: Tubes from the studios come with no packing, 90% will be damaged when sent solo as they free float. Places that get larger quantity shipped in boxes, it is VERY common to have impact marks on the edges, these look like spider web type creases on the edges. It doesn’t break the color, and you have to be in the right light to see them, but extremely common as UPS and FEDEX slam the boxes around. Your ripple you are seeing, is not from rolling too tight, it is from reverse rolling poster and not doing it gently. The 2” tube has nothing to do with condition issues. I ship almost everything in 2” and have about a 1% damage rate and that is a crushed tube. There is no reason any type of damage should happen based on the tube diameter. Now why is the R rating so hard to find. Other than Paramount, if the poster image doesn’t change and the theaters don’t specifically request the rated ones be sent, they do not autoship the rated ones out probably 50% of the time these days. WB with Joker is a good example recently, there is a large credit block final and a small credit block final. Many places never got the large credit block final shipped to them. On the poster you are trying to hunt down, my folks never received the rated one, only the film not rated style. From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Kusumoto Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOPO] WTB - (VERY BAD LUCK!) - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood - DS OS with R Rating. (NM to M) Help! VERY BAD LUCK buying many DS copies with the "true" final USA R-rating printed in the lower left corner. Only one so far (since July) - has passed condition tests for gift quality. All were listed "new" by sellers and looked great in photos - but arrived with horizontal rippling - or - creasing / bends at the top or bottom edges. Others were replete with dimples down the center from top to bottom - or - "scuff-type" wear along the vertical edges - way beyond the "few minor dings" that are OK and common w/even "pristine" posters. Any thoughts? I think the rippling is caused by tight hand-rolling - to fit into 2 inch (or smaller!) diameter sleeves and tubes - (see reference photos below - the posters always look good at first but more probing reveals what I'm talking about). I never get this from pro dealers using three-inch diameter tubes - but it's coming up a lot with amateur sellers. Someone please set me straight. I think these new-release posters are machine rolled into tubes for theaters - but after re-sellers take them out to take photos - they don't know how to re-roll large format paper - by hand - and in a straight line - causing them to make too many hand-adjustments to get them to fit back into these narrow tubes. When I bring it up, they say, "it was mint when shipped." They're not aware of what happens when they use narrow sleeves or tubes. Other posters have shown up w/small, but hard crease edge wear along the vertical sides (vs. normal dings). Of course I get that perfection is impossible - I just don't want to be embarrassed gifting LESS than "near mint" / near pristine posters for RECENT titles. If you have ideas or can help - please message me with price and condition. Thank you! (See photos below.) 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