There is no accounting for taste...
It is quite interesting to me that something as common as a "Wait Until Dark" quad is going off at around $150... When what I considered much rarer Secret People UK OS ended for $62.... I just find it so astonishing that posters you can pick up for much less continue to bring high prices at EMP... But ones that I would think would bring high prices seem to get passed over. Thoughts?
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Buying off eBay and from some other online dealers/sources is always a gamble
There are so many examples where auction prices are unreliable. A long daybill for Down to their Last Yacht aka Hawaiian Nights sold for approx. AUD$800.00 recently. If the buyer had made a quick search on ebay they would have found the same poster (albeit unbacked but in very nice condition) for AUD $449.00.
There are many other examples where posters go for ridiculously low amounts on auctions eg For the Term of His Natural Life daybill that ended recently. OK, it was significantly faded but worth a lot more than 200.00. I planned to bid but got distracted with something else at the last minute so someone ended up with a bargain. It just goes to show that the hobby is still small. If someone forgets to bid or doesn't see the auction the price plummets.
Its all swings and roundabouts.
http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/drama/urban-cowboy-paramount-1980-one-sheet-27-x-41-drama/a/161528-52435.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515
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I search for my posters wherever I can and that does often mean eBay and EMP (not a huge fan of HA), but I find that it's rare that I'm given the choice of two (or more) examples of the poster to pick from. The big sites carry the most stock so of course collectors gravitate there. Sites I used to frequent have been picked clean of items I wanted years ago, so naturally I go where the action is. There's an element of condescension in what is being posted in this thread and I do find it a bit unnecessary. Just because someone is prepared to pay more than you for a poster doesn't meant they're a chump - maybe you guessed the feel in the market wrong. We exist in a community where the hammer price is what the poster's worth on that day. If you think it's only worth half that, well fine, don't add it to your collection but don't sit back thoughtfully stroking your beard and muttering about the new riff raff ruining the hobby. We'd all love top shelf paper for bottom dollar prices. If anyone knows of a site where such posters exist, share it with the rest of us.
However, what I did say is people should check around before committing their money to an auction bid/buy, if they don't then that is laziness, specially if all you are doing is bidding to win, at all costs it seems.
I also think most, if not all the comments here are about those titles which are mostly readily available elsewhere and not top shelf paper as you put it. Let's say someone paid (say) $500 for a common or garden variety Pretty Woman 1SH, and say we were all in a pub sitting at a table having a drink wouldn't you discuss it?
Can I go off topic. If anyone mentions Pretty Woman or Top Gun again...I will delete those posts.
All those in favour?
Shut up Aussie Mark!