Just A Little Bit Random — Vintage Movie Posters Forum

Is This Forum Still Alive — or Just Archived?

finepostervault — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:42:00 +0000

I believe the last nine new topics in this wonderful forum were all started by me. The newcomer. Otherwise, there’s nothing happening.

ChatGPT suggests the following reasons:

Demographic effect
The core collectors who intellectually sustained the forum are now 60+. Many of them rarely post anymore. The younger generation collects differently — faster, more visual, more transactional.

Platform shift
Discussions have migrated to Facebook groups, Messenger chats, and Discord servers. Interaction there tends to be less deep, but more frequent.

Market transparency through auction archives
In the past, the forum was a primary source of information. Today, Heritage, eMoviePoster, Worthpoint, etc. provide price data directly. The informational advantage of the forum has diminished.

Commercialization of the market
Many major players no longer discuss matters publicly. Market movements are observed rather than debated.

Collector behavior
More is being bought than analyzed. And when analysis does occur, it often happens one-to-one via email or direct message.

This forum feels about as alive as an old poster. That’s genuinely sad. A pity. It makes me wonder whether my typing here is even worth it.

Or am I overlooking something?

Need help from someone in the US who is ok with shipping me some dvds

theartofmovieposters — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:50:42 +0000

Hi Guys, I want to purchase some (shock horror) movies on disc and they only ship to the US.
So if anyone is ok to have me use their address and then just reship to me in Australia, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Should I linen back an old poster?

dedeposter — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:02:40 +0000

Hi, just recently purchased a lovely old pre-war Belgian poster that isn't linen backed. This is definitely going up on the wall but I'm wondering whether I should get it linen backed? I think it will display better linen backed, and I'm also wary of how the poster will sit in the frame without any adhesive to hold it up (I assume framers use tape or something?).

I really don't want it damaged and would be quite happy getting it linen backed but it's such an old poster that's never been linen backed that I'm wondering if I'm doing the right thing?

Once it's framed and on the wall I'll post photos.

A rare proud parenting moment!

theartofmovieposters — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:25:50 +0000

I came downstairs earlier this week after a wee sleep in post Christmas.
I found both my girls on the couch watching The Red Shoes on SBS.

Ah, sometimes I do get it right!

Looking for posters

LAMP — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:34:38 +0000

Hi All,
This is ed from LAMP. We have an exhibit coming up and I'm looking for some posters. If anyone has anything on any of these titles available at a reasonable price, it can be any size or any country, I'm interested. Here's the beginning list (more coming).

Premonition – 2007 Sandra Bullock

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins – 2007 Martin Lawrence

Highwaymen – 2020 – Costner

Mad Money – 2008 – Katie Holmes

Snitch – 2013 – Dwayne Johnson

Longshots – 2008 Ice Cube

Soul Men – 2008 – Samuel Jackson

Texas Chainsaw Massacre – 2013 Alexandra Daddario

Straw Dogs – 2011 – James Marsden

Loss of a Teardrop Diamond – 2008

Secretariat – 2010

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back - 2016

Thank you..
ed
edp@LearnAboutMoviePosters.com

Halloween pics anyone?

Charlie — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 04:56:12 +0000

Had about 100 trick or treaters and ran out of candy…

Happy Halloween!

Whereabouts...

theartofmovieposters — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:52:24 +0000

So I know I have been MIA lately, those downunder know Melbourne is in lockdown number six.
I have been fine the whole way through this rollercoaster but this time around, I dont know why it hit me hard.
And then just after lockdown was announced, we found out we had to quarantine for two weeks due to a case my girls school. Freaked me out and couldn't leave the house.

I kinda lost my bananas for a while there...I've been in a decent funk.
Anywho, after some time away from pretty much everything, I am kinda getting back into the swing of things...

So, looking forward to posting and contributing a wee bit more now.

Venting session over.

The Young, The Dumb and Your Old Man has too much Money

Matt — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:31:45 +0000

My new job has some perks and some WTF'S

There's a young guy aged 22 who's father used to own the company, works in the warehouse as a storeman but was designated to be a trainee Project Manager.

Well, the company got sold and he's set for life as a store person . Which he hasn't realised yet. His dad made millions out of the sale and the young fella got a new car, so he is a happy camper.

So at lunch I.................. have to deal with verbal diarrhea.

Lunch time comes around. The young guys sees one of the other guys has two boiled eggs and some Indian rice to eat

He says, " What's that you are eating?"

"Two boiled eggs and some rice Mate"

Dumb (way too rich) guy " I've never eaten boiled eggs"

"Seriously dude?"

Dumb guy, "Yeah, I would'n't know how to cook boiled eggs?"

Disclaimer

I don't make this shit up for comedy purposes.

Post within the US?

theartofmovieposters — Mon, 25 May 2020 23:34:00 +0000

A question for our american poster friends.
How is the internal mail going over there?
I know there are ridiculous delays trying to get into your country, but is it decent internally still?

I have a few parcels I want to send, but don't want them to get held up and likely lost waiting for things to improve.

Down here its been hit and miss...last week or so I've seen an improvement, but am still waiting way too long for parcels from overseas.

Love to know how its tracking over there...

You Cannot Have Too Many Clowns.

HONDO — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 01:43:00 +0000

GST via ebay kicks in

theartofmovieposters — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 01:50:00 +0000

My first purchase on ebay since the GST take kicked in...listed separately when you check out...

Will be interesting to see how it affects the smaller sellers now.
Not that ebay give a shite...

EMP Daily Face Off

Eisenhower — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:33:00 +0000

Anybody besides me vote on Bruce's site for the Daily Face Off's?

Buying from international sellers on ebay just got more expensive.

John — Wed, 30 May 2018 00:42:00 +0000

Latest from ebay â€¦

Starting 1 July 2018, we will be collecting Goods and Services Tax (GST) from buyers on all imports with an order value less than 1,000 AUD. Sellers don't need to do anything.
If you have products located outside Australia, your prices may appear 10% higher to buyers than before if their ship-to location delivery address is in Australia.

Members Only?

John — Wed, 30 May 2018 00:51:00 +0000

Just curious as to why some discussions on this forum are Members Only?

Where in the world are you today?

Charlie — Wed, 24 May 2017 23:16:00 +0000

I'm in Washington DC for three days for work. Ate at a place called the San Antonio Cafe and it was decent (borderline to defunctung) my rule of only eating Mexican food in states that border Mexico...

May I know the name of this movie?

samwhite2001 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:24:00 +0000

Or if I can know the names of the actresses? Thank you.

eBay's No Question Asked Policy

David — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:37:00 +0000

Been selling on eBay for a few months now, it was an experiment to run a live syncing between my site and eBay which I had been working with them on, it works quite well and TBH I have enjoyed selling on eBay, business is brisk and there have no issues.

So, took a call from eBay yesterday, basically told that they are removing the 3-7 or 14 day return policy (buyer's remorse sort of thing) and automatically putting it to 30 day and also offering sellers the opportunity to set it to 60days. Apparently it'll enhance your ranking (or whatever it is).

They asked if I would be signing up for it. Would I be offering buyers remorse on a second hand fragile vintage movie poster that a buyer has handled multiple times and after 30 or even 60 days has decided to return it?

I said no.

I blame John.

http://sellercentre.ebay.com.au/SR17-1/Returns-Enhancements

Worlds Greatest Taglines

John — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 23:58:00 +0000

Taking up Charlie's suggestion to post something different ........ Some of the best taglines are on B grade or film noir posters.

One I like is "His Luck ran out when He Trusted a Woman!"

Please post your favourite taglines.

Ebays latest advertising campaign. Hump Month????

John — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 23:17:00 +0000

ebay Australia has had some strange advertising campaigns over the years but this one is really weird.

http://www.ebay.com.au/rpp/hump-month?_trkparms=clkid=6060680513495884974

Hump Month? I have never heard that expression used in Australia before. Does it have any relevance at all to Australians?

Movie Prop - does anyone know what this actually is?

John — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 05:48:00 +0000

I picked this up in a collection of medical props used in a war film on the Gold Coast. Looks like some kind of eye chart but does anyone know exactly what it is?

Public Domain Film

John — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:02:00 +0000

Just curious about how people go about selling films that are in the Public Domain eg

http://stores.ebay.com/Retro-Moving-Images?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

Not saying there is anything wrong with this seller but does anyone know it all works? I was wondering whether someone could simply cop a film from another DVD and add a bit of artwork, etc to the cover and then legally re sell it under a different banner because it is public domain.

Website issues

John — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 06:03:00 +0000

Up until recently, I had been adding listings to my website on a daily basis. However, a couple of weeks ago, I was informed that the company that built and hosts my site has gone into liquidation leaving hundreds of businesses in the lurch. I am looking at various options to move forward. Unfortunately, it looks like it will be a very expensive and time consuming exercise to move everything and probably completely change the operating system (CMS).

In the meantime, the site will continue to operate as usual and I will start loading more posters soon.

Happy New Year

David — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:58:00 +0000

May whatever come your way in 2016 be at least VG-F or can be restored to be as close to perfectly acceptable without too much stress for you, friends and family.

Merry Christmas!

David — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:16:00 +0000

Merry Christmas all, have a great day - I do hope Santa brings you all what you wanted.

And that said...time to open some presents!

Life after Home Alone

John — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:31:00 +0000

Bad language warning

What is wrong with ebay??

John — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 06:08:00 +0000

I have been selling on ebay since 1998 and it just amazes me that they continue to have so many ongoing problems.

Here is the latest.

1. A customer sent me a message to ask about purchasing a very expensive poster. The problem is that ebay blocks all replies to him because his userid looks like an email address and they don't like that. Of course, the customer gets upset because he thinks I am ignoring his messages but he doesn't know that his userid is blocked. Why don't they just get people to change their userids?

2. I get regular emails from people who tell me they can't add items to the cart when making multiple purchases. I finally found out that this happens when the items are listed on the Australian site but the customer finds them through another ebay site eg the UK ebay site. They end up paying for each item with postage separately and sellers have to go back and refund the additional postage charges and then try and claim the fees back on postage from ebay (in case you didn't know, ebay takes a cut on each postage charge).

These are just a couple of examples.

That's my OT rant for the day.

GST on overseas purchases under $1000.00

John — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:40:00 +0000

Announced today ....

http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/gst-deal-state-premiers-agree-to-charge-gst-on-overseas-online-shopping-purchases-under-1000/story-fnagkbpv-1227453514682

I wonder how they will collect this GST. At the moment, packages with a declared value of over $1000.00 are supposed to be cleared by customs after payment of taxes and gst but I cant imagine how they would make this work for all online overseas purchases.

How Did You Find Us?

David — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:51:00 +0000

We are seeing new members joining daily, what is extra pleasing is there are plenty of new faces joining too. So for those of us who love statistics, humour us 'cause we'd love to know: how did you find us? Elaborate if need be.

ALS (Ice Bucket) Challenge - Post your video

David — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 06:03:00 +0000

Been nominated? Post your video here

In case you're wondering, here's a sobering video about ALS - skip through to the 2 minute mark to read why HE took the challenge

He was diagnosed at 26 years old and although the life expectancy of an ALS patient averages about two to five years from the time of diagnosis, this disease is variable and many people live with quality for five years and more. More than half of all patients live more than three years after diagnosis

There is no cure...he thanks you for your support.