Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
Bruce, Let's face it. Regardless of eBay's practices it was only a matter of time that you'd see it would be in your best interest to run as fast as you could from eBay and start your own site. You've been ahead of the curve from the beginning of the movie poster auction phenomenon and continue to set the standard by which paper is graded, fees are paid and number of items auctioned. By now if people don't know you they don't collect movie paper. I think you were well to get rid of eBay and make your own mark in internet history. My 2 cents - Glenn T. - Original Message - From: Bruce Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:00 AM Subject: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday! We recently added our 7,500th registered bidder! We have more movie paper bidders than ANY other auction site, and our results prove that. It has been suggested that we auction more movie paper items per week (actual auctions, not fixed price sales masquerading as auctions) than the entire eBay site! Of course, had the suits who run eBay not been so insanely greedy and endlessly raised fees, we would likely still be selling there, and eBay might well be stronger than ever. Bruce Hershenson and the other 27 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
Bruce Ebay is not the only one in the world insanely greedy. All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of insaane prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. Claude In a message dated 8/21/2010 9:00:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, brucehershen...@gmail.com writes: We recently added our 7,500th registered bidder! We have more movie paper bidders than ANY other auction site, and our results prove that. It has been suggested that we auction more movie paper items per week (actual auctions, not fixed price sales masquerading as auctions) than the entire eBay site! Of course, had the suits who run eBay not been so insanely greedy and endlessly raised fees, we would likely still be selling there, and eBay might well be stronger than ever. Bruce Hershenson and the other 27 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) _our site_ (http://www.emovieposter.com/) _our auctions_ (http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
Claude Personally I think those insane prices make the hobby look like a complete joke. The same thing happens when a poster sells for a huge price, and then can't find a bidder at a third of that price. Bruce On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM, twoni...@aol.com wrote: *Bruce* ** *Ebay is not the only one in the world insanely greedy. All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of insaane prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. * ** *Claude* In a message dated 8/21/2010 9:00:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, brucehershen...@gmail.com writes: We recently added our 7,500th registered bidder! We have more movie paper bidders than ANY other auction site, and our results prove that. It has been suggested that we auction more movie paper items per week (actual auctions, not fixed price sales masquerading as auctions) than the entire eBay site! Of course, had the suits who run eBay not been so insanely greedy and endlessly raised fees, we would likely still be selling there, and eBay might well be stronger than ever. Bruce Hershenson and the other 27 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 28 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
...and the insanely priced stuff never sells. Ever. Those in the know are too hip to pay the obscenely bloated asking price for those titles, and those NOT in the know...well, heck, they don't give a rat's ass. It's like a pissing contest to see which dealer can ask the stupidest price on a given item. Greg Douglass Claude Personally I think those insane prices make the hobby look like a complete joke. The same thing happens when a poster sells for a huge price, and then can't find a bidder at a third of that price. Bruce On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM, twoni...@aol.com mailto:twoni...@aol.com wrote: *Bruce* *Ebay is not the only one in the world insanely greedy. All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of insaane prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. * *Claude* In a message dated 8/21/2010 9:00:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, brucehershen...@gmail.com mailto:brucehershen...@gmail.com writes: We recently added our 7,500th registered bidder! We have more movie paper bidders than ANY other auction site, and our results prove that. It has been suggested that we auction more movie paper items per week (actual auctions, not fixed price sales masquerading as auctions) than the entire eBay site! Of course, had the suits who run eBay not been so insanely greedy and endlessly raised fees, we would likely still be selling there, and eBay might well be stronger than ever. Bruce Hershenson and the other 27 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com http://www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu mailto:lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 28 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
At 06:37 AM 8/21/2010, Claude Litton wrote: Bruce Ebay is not the only one in the world insanely greedy. All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of insaane prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. Claude Claude is so-o-o-o-o right.. I wish I had tracked some sellers like Miniver. He had that Trip to the Moon postyer at $100,000 years back when he first listed it on fleaBay (maybe 75k come to think of it) the poster never sells and has been relisted ad-nauseum for a full decade and the price has slowly climbed to $650k I guess the thinking is I need to reclaim all those ebay fees that I have spent on listing this $%# poster for ten years Then there are the people who have Star Wars one sheets (regular style, 2nd-3rd-4th printings) at $1999. AND A RESERVE (what, the $1999 price wasn't reserved enough?) there are the supposed sellers who have 100 posters listed of which few are really desirable and all of which have reserves they get listed every week and sometimes you even see a fair bid on some - but they still don't meet the reserve (these are the look what I have sellers. - oh, aren't I cool because I have these?) there is one guy who relists on a weekly basis posters for Out of Sight (60s hotrod movie) and other automobile surfer titles with a reserve. They have gotten bids once upon a time that were actually quite fair to the seller. But they've never sold because who knows what he wants, so now nobody bids on them, and he pays the relist reserve fees again next week. He will never be able to get out because the fees of one year's listing is more than any one of them is worth (except the Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow.. he has a few more weeks of fees to catch up with that poster) I could go on all day about them and I have to wonder how smart any of these sellers are. How long will they continue to list them if they lose their day jobs?? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
A few weeks ago a new seller (I wont mention his name because he was very polite in his reply to me, rather than the usual rude reply from these high listing characters) and I asked him if he was serious about selling his posters. The reason was that I was serious about buying one of his but the price was ridiculous. His reply to me was that he knows the prices are insane and he really didn't want to sell any of his posters. However, if some fool came along and paid him the asking price then he would sell it. A true sad story. I obviously did not make him an offer. Claude In a message dated 8/21/2010 2:04:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sa...@comic-art.com writes: At 06:37 AM 8/21/2010, Claude Litton wrote: Bruce Ebay is not the only one in the world insanely greedy. All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of insaane prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. Claude Claude is so-o-o-o-o right.. I wish I had tracked some sellers like Miniver. He had that Trip to the Moon postyer at $100,000 years back when he first listed it on fleaBay (maybe 75k come to think of it) the poster never sells and has been relisted ad-nauseum for a full decade and the price has slowly climbed to $650k I guess the thinking is I need to reclaim all those ebay fees that I have spent on listing this $%# poster for ten years Then there are the people who have Star Wars one sheets (regular style, 2nd-3rd-4th printings) at $1999. AND A RESERVE (what, the $1999 price wasn't reserved enough?) there are the supposed sellers who have 100 posters listed of which few are really desirable and all of which have reserves they get listed every week and sometimes you even see a fair bid on some - but they still don't meet the reserve (these are the look what I have sellers. - oh, aren't I cool because I have these?) there is one guy who relists on a weekly basis posters for Out of Sight (60s hotrod movie) and other automobile surfer titles with a reserve. They have gotten bids once upon a time that were actually quite fair to the seller. But they've never sold because who knows what he wants, so now nobody bids on them, and he pays the relist reserve fees again next week. He will never be able to get out because the fees of one year's listing is more than any one of them is worth (except the Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow.. he has a few more weeks of fees to catch up with that poster) I could go on all day about them and I have to wonder how smart any of these sellers are. How long will they continue to list them if they lose their day jobs?? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
I had not looked over these listings for quite some time, but after all this talk I just looked them over and I am amazed just how many people there are playing this wacky game. I know eBay is giving free listings, but does this really help anyone? Many of the items are inflated by a factor of ten, and I would think they crowd out any real listings there (if there are any left). Pitiful! Bruce On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Claude Litton twoni...@aol.com wrote: *A few weeks ago a new seller (I wont mention his name because he was very polite in his reply to me, rather than the usual rude reply from these high listing characters) and I asked him if he was serious about selling his posters. The reason was that I was serious about buying one of his but the price was ridiculous.* ** *His reply to me was that he knows the prices are insane and he really didn't want to sell any of his posters. However, if some fool came along and paid him the asking price then he would sell it.* ** *A true sad story. I obviously did not make him an offer. * ** *Claude* In a message dated 8/21/2010 2:04:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sa...@comic-art.com writes: At 06:37 AM 8/21/2010, Claude Litton wrote: *Bruce * *Ebay is not the only one in the world insanely greedy. All one has to do is go to ebay, search movie posters and sort by highest price first. You will get page after page of insaane prices. These prices do not help the movie poster collecting world or ebay. * *Claude* Claude is so-o-o-o-o right.. I wish I had tracked some sellers like Miniver. He had that Trip to the Moon postyer at $100,000 years back when he first listed it on fleaBay (maybe 75k come to think of it) the poster never sells and has been relisted ad-nauseum for a full decade and the price has slowly climbed to $650k I guess the thinking is I need to reclaim all those ebay fees that I have spent on listing this $%# poster for ten years Then there are the people who have Star Wars one sheets (regular style, 2nd-3rd-4th printings) at $1999. AND A RESERVE (what, the $1999 price wasn't reserved enough?) there are the supposed sellers who have 100 posters listed of which few are really desirable and all of which have reserves they get listed every week and sometimes you even see a fair bid on some - but they still don't meet the reserve (these are the look what I have sellers. - oh, aren't I cool because I have these?) there is one guy who relists on a weekly basis posters for Out of Sight (60s hotrod movie) and other automobile surfer titles with a reserve. They have gotten bids once upon a time that were actually quite fair to the seller. But they've never sold because who knows what he wants, so now nobody bids on them, and he pays the relist reserve fees again next week. He will never be able to get out because the fees of one year's listing is more than any one of them is worth (except the Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow.. he has a few more weeks of fees to catch up with that poster) I could go on all day about them and I have to wonder how smart any of these sellers are. How long will they continue to list them if they lose their day jobs?? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 28 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 7,500 and adding more bidders everyday!
At 01:01 PM 8/21/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote: I had not looked over these listings for quite some time, but after all this talk I just looked them over and I am amazed just how many people there are playing this wacky game. I know eBay is giving free listings, but does this really help anyone? Many of the items are inflated by a factor of ten, and I would think they crowd out any real listings there (if there are any left). Pitiful! Bruce Totally correct Bruce. Between those listings and all the morons selling reproductions and personality posters in the posters, originals categories, it's nearly impossible to find stuff you're looking for easily. it's also why there are (at this particular moment) 1,000,336 listings in Movie Memorabilia, but only 37,853 AUCTION listings (less than 4% of total listings) of course, of those 37,853 listings, only maybe 5000 of them (and I'm being generous) are true auctions Between Bruce, Heritage and myself on MPB, there are more true auctions every week of movie memorabilia than on fleaBay, and unlike fleaBay's listings - the three of us actually sell all of our listings (subject to a weekly sell through rate) and on fleaBay, I'd bet dimes to dollars that maybe 1500-2000 items actually sell it's why fleaBay has become a pathetic website for collectors Rich Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
