Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread Adrian Cowdry
owned. -d. Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:38:48 -0400 From: rixpost...@aol.com Subject: Re: Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU I'm sure glad I started collecting 30 years ago and acquired the majority of my collection then. I know a few

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread Tait Maxfeldt
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences... Edward R. Murrow I've been waiting to apply this quote to poster collecting..  If you read between the lines than both Bruce and Rich are correct but in different ways.. Sean (Crowzilla) astutely pointed out in February of this year ...There are

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread Daniel Kinske
I have a limited range of experience compared to the more veteran collectors on here, but any and all advice helps. One constant sentiment is that if you really like a rare poster (or lobby card, press book, etc.) that you really want, you should do what you can to get it then as it may not

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread filip de volder
off of a tiny black and white image (sometimes no image at all) you now can almost always see a giant image of the item you want to buy. So I ask you, is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I have heard forever about the days of cheap great items, and yes, there *WAS *a day when you *COULD *possibly buy great posters and lobby cards for what are now very inexpensive prices. But I *KNOW *full well that not very many collectors ever took advantage of these opportunities, because when

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread Neil Jaworski
Hallo Here's a UK perspective. I have probably bought more posters in the last year than in the three years before that.  It seems that quite a few posters which have historically been in the low-hundred dollar range now pop up for (sometimes considerably) less than $100.  This has been

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-11 Thread filip de volder
: brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU I have heard forever about the days of cheap great items, and yes, there WAS a day when you COULD possibly buy great posters and lobby cards for what are now

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Posteropolis
YES! And it's a buyers market. Many sellers like myself are more willing than ever to entertain offers. Collectors should be taking full advantage of the situation. Dave Posteropolis Vintage Movie Posters www.posteropolis.com - Original Message - From: Bruce Hershenson To:

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread filip de volder
and buy vintage movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU YES! And it's a buyers market. Many sellers like myself are more willing than ever to entertain offers. Collectors should be taking full advantage of the situation. Dave Posteropolis Vintage Movie Posters www.posteropolis.com

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread John Waldman
time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU YES! And it's a buyers market. Many sellers like myself are more willing than ever to entertain offers. Collectors should be taking full advantage of the situation.   Dave Posteropolis Vintage Movie Posters http

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art
(sometimes no image at all) you now can almost always see a giant image of the item you want to buy. So I ask you, is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Posteropolis
Of course you're right. So I withdraw my emphatic YES to Bruce's question. This isn't the best time ever. But it's a pretty good time to buy movie posters. So maybe if 30 years ago was the Golden Age of poster buying then that makes this the Silver Age? ;-) Dave - Original Message -

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art
oh.. that said.. I have 340 Modern Age posters for Modern Age collectors running right now in my correctly identified (by Big Bruce) 99 cents no reserve auctions right now on MoviePosterBid.com http://www.movieposterbid.com At 12:00 PM 8/10/2012, Posteropolis wrote: Of course you're right.

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Philipp K
image of the item you want to buy. So I ask you, is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art
no. it's the Modern Age. the time period when the vast majority of collectors switches from over 45 to under 35 At 12:00 PM 8/10/2012, Posteropolis wrote: Of course you're right. So I withdraw my emphatic YES to Bruce's question. This isn't the best time ever. But it's a pretty good time to

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Rix Posterz
want to buy. So I ask you, is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Kirby McDaniel
A boy's love song to his posters: To be alone with you Just you and me Now won't you tell me the true Ain't that the way it oughta be? To hold each other tight The whole night through Ev'rything is always right When I'm alone with you. To be alone with you At the close of the day With only you

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Simon Oram
I would be worried about that boy. To answer Bruce's question, i will just keep with my poker face and say it's always a good time to find and buy vintage film posters - always has been and always will be. Simon Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Kirby

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread David Kusumoto
:38:48 -0400 From: rixpost...@aol.com Subject: Re: Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU I'm sure glad I started collecting 30 years ago and acquired the majority of my collection then. I know a few collectors who got into the hobby

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Andrea Kanter
I'm married to that boy. He gets in the closet with his besties in a hurricane. Andrea ANDREA KANTER andreakan...@mac.com On Aug 10, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Simon Oram wrote: I would be worried about that boy. To answer Bruce's question, i will just keep with my poker face and say it's

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread allen day
If you think that now is the time to buy ... see the next 2-3 years ad  From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:55 AM Subject: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage

Re: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to find and buy vintage movie posters?

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
that's a winnah At 03:53 PM 8/10/2012, allen day wrote: If you think that now is the time to buy ... see the next 2-3 years ad From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:55 AM Subject: [MOPO] Is this the best time ever to