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Daybill Results: HA Signature Auctions

DavidDavid
edited March 2016 in Shhh, don't tell anyone but...
March 2016 - With AUD exchange rates as at today (doesn't factor in freight/postage)

Your thoughts?





















‡ Amounts include buyer's premium (19.5%)

Comments

  • JohnJohn
    Mixed results. Amazing price for Wonderful Life. Great to see more daybills than usual in the auction. I think Australian buyers would be put off a little by the exchange rate, buyers premium, unknown postage cost and the probability that customs would get involved on anything over $1000.00.
    https://www.moviemem.com
  • theartofmovieposterstheartofmovieposters

    Seems I got the one and only I really wanted...like John said, exchange rate and BP put me off bidding on the other I wanted.

    Ridonculour price on Wonderful Life, but it is a gorgeous poster!  Surprised Dollars went that low...though I didn't look, did it have condition issues???

  • DavidDavid
    John said:
    Mixed results. Amazing price for Wonderful Life. Great to see more daybills than usual in the auction. I think Australian buyers would be put off a little by the exchange rate, buyers premium, unknown postage cost and the probability that customs would get involved on anything over $1000.00.
    I see your point but none are real surprises.

    BP has been around forever in almost every auction house in the world - you can't even buy at auction locally without paying a BP, I think Leonard Joel is now up around 25%?

    The exchange rate is a pain but rarely has it been on par with the USD historically, so surely everyone is used to it - besides if nothing is readily available locally for many of those titles, who's to say what the price is.

    The postage rate, yeah, HA is terrible at over charging. Terrible. 

    Aussie Customs, again, that's been around forever so almost everyone who has paid over $1K for a poster anywhere in the world will know this - the worry is if the govt drops it to a couple of hundred...


  • HumphreyBogartHumphreyBogart
    Hopefully some of the results encourage some collectors to consign more good Australian material in the near future..
  • DavidDavid
    HumphreyBogart said:
    Hopefully some of the results encourage some collectors to consign more good Australian material in the near future..
    Agree.

    Lead by example Reg.
  • HumphreyBogartHumphreyBogart
    Oh I will probably 20 years later. For now you will have to step up!  =)
  • DavidDavid
    My collection is nothing much, just a few bits and pieces...I'd suggest you should step up but no one here has ever seen your stuff.  ;)


  • HumphreyBogartHumphreyBogart
    I ain't got much either. When i get time off and get around to taking my posters out of storage. I'll invite you over for a beer and you can see for urself. :)
  • RickRick
    Apart from the top few which were above par, most were at the lower end of expectations. I've sold a couple of those for more than Heritage achieved.
  • JohnJohn
    Three others were unsold.
    https://www.moviemem.com
  • DavidDavid
    John said:
    Three others were unsold.
    All from the same consignor, yours?


  • BruceBruce
    With 1930s daybills it tends to be feast or famine on the prices.

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    HAS unrestored and unenhanced images - IS eMoviePoster.com
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    HAS 25% or 26% "buyers premiums" of any kind (but especially the dreadful "$29 or $49 minimum" ones) - NOT eMoviePoster.com
    HAS "reserves or starts over $1 - NOT eMoviePoster.com
    HAS hidden bidder IDs - NOT eMoviePoster.com
    HAS "nosebleed" shipping charges - NOT eMoviePoster.com
    HAS inadequate packaging - NOT eMoviePoster.com
    HAS no customer service to speak of, before, during and after any auction, and answers almost no questions - NOT eMoviePoster.com

  • JohnJohn
    I didn't have anything at all in the auction but maybe I should have sent that BAT daybill! I sold that one a couple of months ago for well under half the price HA achieved. The three unsold lots look to be from the same place - possibly the Blue Mountains find?
    https://www.moviemem.com
  • SvenSven
    John said:
    I didn't have anything at all in the auction but maybe I should have sent that BAT daybill! I sold that one a couple of months ago for well under half the price HA achieved. The three unsold lots look to be from the same place - possibly the Blue Mountains find?
    If you get anothet BAT, give me a call, im all ears  =)
  • DavidDavid
    Bruce said:
    With 1930s daybills it tends to be feast or famine on the prices.

    Yup
  • CSM_2_Point_0CSM_2_Point_0
    The one and only Mark of the Vampire also came from the Amusu find...


  • PanchoPancho
    CSM_2_Point_0 said:
    The one and only Mark of the Vampire also came from the Amusu find...


    What did this one achieve at the auction?
  • SvenSven
    Pancho said:
    CSM_2_Point_0 said:
    The one and only Mark of the Vampire also came from the Amusu find...


    What did this one achieve at the auction?
    @Pancho

  • PanchoPancho
    Wowee!!
  • CSM_2_Point_0CSM_2_Point_0
    But it sold on eBay (off eBay) for far, far less initially
  • MattMatt

    CSM_2_Point_0 said:
    But it sold on eBay (off eBay) for far, far less initially

    There was another 1 or 2 good ones in that ebay lot. Can you remember what they were?
  • CSM_2_Point_0CSM_2_Point_0
    Matt said:
    CSM_2_Point_0 said:
    But it sold on eBay (off eBay) for far, far less initially

    There was another 1 or 2 good ones in that ebay lot. Can you remember what they were?
    One was "We're Not Dressing" - Carole Lombard but I cannot recall the other one...
  • MattMatt
    Thanks Chris.
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