I just hammered on Glenn Taranto who I mentioned to you last month.
thread begins at bottom and regards the $49 bp
Glenn, exactly how do you think a $10 is worth selling by any commercial
entity doing mail order?
With my business costs, it's not profitable to sell anything under $100
for the most part. between costs, labor and time, I can't do all the
shipping necessary to sell 100 items at $100 each month to make the
$10,000 monthly I need to make to pay all the bills, pay for the
merchandise and make a salary
selling $10 items at a show, when all you do is bring boxes, put them on
a table and post "$10 each" is a totally different gig. Mail order is
work on a much more labor intensive & cost scale.
On top of the fact that a $10 poster today that was $10 20 years ago is
a loss of real dollars and value. the hunchback poster sold yesterday is
a worse example of monetary loss. The same seller who sold it for $29k
yesterday sold it for $50k 20 years ago. In investment losses, that is
like being $100K underwater. Of course, there's a possibility that the
Hunchback poster might have sold better if the auction selling it didn't
publicly dog the poster value in his emails and facebook posts
here's a great example of how poor this hobby has become:
in 2003 Heritage did an auction of comics alongside an auction of
posters at the SDCC. Each total was $1,000,000.
Today those same comics are worth $30,000,000 and the posters are still
only worth $1,000,000.
But factually said, the movie poster hobby, especially at the low end,
is the red-headed step child of collecting, has little investment value,
has been stagnant for 20 years, and only wants to pay $10 for posters.
Every hobby I can think of has surpassed posters, maybe with the
exception of beanie babies and pogs
The buyers premium is only a problem with cheap posters, and cheap
posters aren't worth selling.
Rich
On 12/22/2025 11:07 AM, Glenn Taranto wrote:
I just saw that as well. The market for lower priced items will be
non-existent soon. Why would anyone want to pay 60 bucks for a ten
dollar item? Not to mention tax and postage???
We'll be back to flea markets soon!
Glenn
On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM Greg Douglass
<[email protected]> wrote:
I have no gripe with Heritage's selection or service and I've
purchased some great stuff from them..but a $49 Buyer's Premium? Yikes!
Greg Douglass
Coos Bay, OR
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