When nobody wants to post thread....

Matt

No laughter.

David

Your cynicism so early on a Monday has been parried by my rapier wit...

Matt

  We're even then.

David

We are now...

Matt

Like Hanks but this is fitting

theartofmovieposters

I love Bruce's pay and hold system...why?

Cause by the time it's ready to be sent, I have no idea what I bought and it's a bit like Christmas when you open the parcel!

Eisenhower

Agree! I just got a package from Bruce that contains two W.E. Smith's and one Robert Burton! 

Charlie

I am on pay and hold but I buy one and then wait as months go by and then it gets to my door before I buy another one... 

theartofmovieposters

Eisenhower said:

Agree! I just got a package from Bruce that contains two W.E. Smith's and one Robert Burton! 

Oh Oh...that sounds like more competition!

theartofmovieposters

Some sellers are just dicks!

David

Not all dicks are sellers...

But, because they had stars, all the Star-Belly Sneetches
Would brag, “We’re the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.”
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort
“We’ll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!”

Bruce

My feeling in starting the 6 week pay and hold was that otherwise people would soon quit buying internationally. I mean who wants to pay $30 or $40 to ship one poster? But if you can build up five or ten posters, and they ship together for slightly more, then the cost of shipping each poster goes WAY down.

It is so sad what has happened to shipping. In 2000, I could send a regular flat package to Australia for $14, and now, in just 17 years, the price has about tripled.

Once we make a few more improvements to how we run the pay and hold, I am hoping to go to a full two months for non-U.S. buyers!

Eisenhower

Great adjustments Bruce! I recently bought some daybills and should have used the pay & hold for the one sheets getting ready to close next week. If one looks at your upcoming calendar and plans it out 2 months is a nice stretch. 

David

I think it's a great system that a number of auction houses in the USA offer, it certainly makes it more economical and as Ves says, opening them up can be a bit like Christmas!

Bruce said:

I could send a regular flat package to Australia for $14, and now, in just 17 years, the price has about tripled.

Which is why I find it remarkable that some USA buyers get all upset when we charge the same to go the other direction...

David

Possibly the worst click-bait ask-n-answer pages in the history of the internet.

Said mine was: Marie

http://quizlady.com/can-we-guess-your-middle-name/

Matt

Same here. Just wasted 2 minutes of my life.

Eisenhower

Should've taken Matt's comment more seriously.    It said I'm Ann....

Mirosae

Christies London South Kensigton branch will close soon. Apparently the online auction is winning momentum and they just cannot sustain this business model. 

Shame, I used to go to their auctions in South Ken  to see the posters in person. They had some limited exhibitions for their online posters auction.

Eisenhower

That is a shame Rosa. Ive stepped foot in Cinemasterpieces years ago before I knew what the hell I was doing and was blown away by being so close to so many wonderful posters! (Wonderful from my perspective of course). 

So to lose an opportunity to see great posters first hand is, disappointing.  Brick & mortar going away I guess...

@Charlie-have you travelled North to Dallas before to view any of the Heritage Signature pieces? 

Charlie

I have been to Heritage... It was exciting.  I stayed for the auction during the Berwick find.  I even asked them to bring out two posters so that I could view them.  I passed on the Dial M for Murder insert and bought the Terminator quad...

Charlie

It took 30 days to ship it to me and when I got it they had taped part of the poster down when they packed it.  Outside the auction, it's an amateur show and a money grab IMO - pretty much everything I dislike in relationships and business... I have never bought from them again.  

Eisenhower

Yeah! The Berwick paper was amazing!!!

Bruce

If you go to any "live" auction these days, you likely will be amazed that there is next-to-no-one there (unless it is some celebrity auction).

Often it is the auctioneer, a few "house" bidders, and some telephones.

This is 18th Century technology and to my mind it is on its way out.

When I did live auctions, a couple of hundred people paid many hundreds each (or more) in travel and lodging expenses to attended. That likely couple of hundred thousand is far better spent when it is used to buy items from the auction!

Eisenhower

Sad to know they are disappearing....

Years ago i went to a rural farm auction in the middle of Wisconsin with a genuine auctioneer...it was so much fun! My mom went home with a really cool poker table, and an old butter churn!

Sven

Hi Bruce , what is a house bidder?

Bruce

A house bidder is someone who has written bids (submitted by email or old-fashioned snail mail) and they execute them for the person as those lots are being sold. Of course they very carefully make certain no one can see the hidden maximum bids those bidders have placed.

Charlie

People in the room.  It seemed like many of them were bidders for clients and not actual collectors.  There was nothing like seeing a guy hold up his paddle the entire time for the Cimarron OS as it got into the six figures.

Eisenhower

Happy St. Patrick's Day all!!!

Matt

Someone's at the Pub. Sweet!

Eisenhower

Did i wish all our awesome forum members in all Hemispheres a Happy St Patty's Day? Cheers!