Congrats Bruce -God bless and Merry Christmas to youand family
happy 2024
all the best in Future
wishing Peace and love for all Mopo members and family Health and
happiness
Tom
Hollywood dream Factory®
since 1977
On 2023-12-25 10:17, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
My company's (eMoviePoster.com's) just-ended Sunday auctions (our
final 2023 auctions) put us to right under six million dollars in
sales for 2022 (a total of $5,986,116.00)!
This means we have averaged $6 million per year for SEVEN years and we
keep setting LOTS of individual records!
But even more impressive is that in 2019 we held 140,000 auctions,
while in 2020 we "only" had 100,000 auctions, and in 2021 we "only"
had 75,000 auctions, and in 2022 we we "only" had 54,000 auctions and
in 2023 we had 54,000 auctions.
This year we held around 50,000 auctions (I don't have the exact
count) , and we still came close to our other $6 million+ years which
had 75,000, 100,000, and 140,000 auctions!
And this year we had 4 major auctions during the year, while last year
we had six major auctions, and yet we had almost as much overall sales
with the same number of auctions.
This is because our selling price per auction keep rising drastically
as the number of annual auctions we have run has fallen by two-thirds
over 3 years (it has almost tripled)!
Why have we continued to have strong sales growth virtually every
year, letting us grow in annual sales from $1,883,722.71 in 2002 to
$5,986,116.00 this year with one-third the auctions?
There are seven reasons for this:
1) We far and away charge the lowest rates at every price level of any
major auction, and we get higher prices overall than any other
auction, when you compare "apples to apples and oranges to oranges"
(even if you accept the many "false results" other auctions often
report).
2) We do a better job of auctioning than any major auction (how buyers
AND consignors are treated, before, during, and after every
transaction).
3) We have very loyal bidders and consignors, many of whom we have
dealt with for five or ten or more years, quite a few for nearly our
entire 33 year history!
4) eBay continues to implode. They have no quality control over their
sellers, so the good auctioneers get lumped in with the many bad ones,
and their businesses continue to decline. Many former regular eBay
bidders are now mostly only bidding with us, and many former eBay
sellers are now mostly only selling through us!
5) Other online auction sites regularly alienate their consignors AND
their bidders, due to many shady auction practices, including
deceptive buyers premiums (that deceive sellers) and over-grading what
they auction, and/or enhancing images and "missing" restoration or
defects that their items have.
6) We have the best employees of any major movie poster auction, 21 in
all. Over the years we have continually refined what we do, and all of
our top employees have been here between ten and twenty years each!
7) We DON'T have fancy offices, showrooms, or exhibit space, or
printed catalogs! We put all the savings from not having those things
into having no buyers premiums, charging actual shipping cost and
having 16 weeks of Pay and Hold, and many other ways that let our
bidders and our consignors get a better deal than at any other
auction!
What will the future hold? We don't know, so you will just have to
come back here a year from now and find out! But we HAVE committed to
keeping this company going exactly as it is for TWO more years (at
least), so if YOU have excellent posters or related items to sell, we
don't know why you would not immediately consign them to
eMoviePoster.com, the #1 poster auction in the world, for 34 years!
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