We just received this email from a new customer: ""Hello. I recently purchased 3 posters from your auctions. I bought 3 great 1990s Disney posters which I've searched years for. On sites where I can buy them for a fixed price, these posters all sell for $200-$350. But I bought them from your auctions for a fraction of that. I am extremely happy with my purchase, My only question is how do I know the posters I bought from you are authentic? Thank you."
At first, I thought he must be crazy that those 1990s posters (which he bought for $20 to $50 each) cost $200-$350 on some websites. But I searched a couple of high profile sites, and by golly, he was exactly right! So I knew why he suspected he had bought repros, and I replied to him as follows: "Thank you for your email! The posters that you won are 100% authentic theatrical one-sheets (either used in a theater or printed for use in a theater). While there are "reproduction" posters out there, we have the information and experience that it takes to spot them (we have held over 900,000 different auctions, far more than all other auction houses combined.When we are sent any reproductions by consignors, we return them to the people who send them to us. On very rare occasions (such as when an actor has autographed one), we will auction a reproduction poster, but we clearly mention that it is a reproduction in several places on the auction. You can see an example of this at the following link: *http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/8823298.html <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/8823298.html>* Our ironclad "Buyer Warranty" guarantees that what we sold you is what we said it was, in terms of originality and condition, and this warranty has no time limit whatsoever! You can read more about it at the following link: *http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/20120625ad_emovieposter_no_buyer_beware_buyer_warranty.jpg*<http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/20120625ad_emovieposter_no_buyer_beware_buyer_warranty.jpg> As for the low prices, all of our auctions start at $1 and the price only goes higher when *TWO *different bidders are bidding on the same item. It is not unusual for the winning bid to be well below what online stores would charge for the same item. You can also see what our past buyers have paid for the same posters you just purchased in our Auction History at *http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html*<http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html> If there is anything else that we can do for you, please let us know. In the meantime, best of luck on your future bidding!" -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 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> * Complete Buyer Protection <http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/20120625ad_emovieposter_no_buyer_beware_buyer_warranty.jpg> - *No time limit on our guarantees & *NO* buyer beware * Hershenson Help Hotline <http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/20120906_mcw_ad_hershenson_help_hotline_forsite.jpg> - *Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth* Customer Reviews *of our company * - Page 1 <http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page1.jpg>, Page 2 <http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page2.jpg>, Page 3 <http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page3.jpg>*, which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from all others! 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.
