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MattMatt
in The End is Near...
We saw it not long ago with Zombies of the Stratosphere and another one the name of which which escapes me right now.  So unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you'll have noticed quite a stash of One Million Years BC/She Quads hitting the market place.  Still fetching good coin too, but the average price has dropped. It will be a while before this gets back to its $350+ price tag.

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  • DavidDavid
    Good to know...where do I gets me one?!
  • MattMatt
    One Mill/She Quad

    This seller has sold at least 6 recently.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    Someone should start flooding the market with some choice daybills
  • PaulPaul
    There was a lot of these printed at the time, you could send off to Hammer and they would send you one, for the price of P&P.  A guy in Germany bought what was left, and was selling them for years. This isn't a recent thing, they have been easily available for years, I think Alex is just getting carried away at the moment with them....
  • naominaomi
    When you sent off to Hammer for a free copy of the poster (originally, back in the mid-late 60's) was the free poster the studio issued to fans precisely the same poster, art and dimensions as the poster issued to the commercial theaters / cinemas at the time? Thank you for the mention, Matt.
  • PaulPaul
    Yes, they were all the same, and from the same printers, done at the same time. If you want to really get down to it, the folded ones were most likely the ones sent to the cinemas, but fold yours and it's the same thing...
  • MattMatt
    No probs Naomi.

    What about this one?

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  • 110x75110x75
    I was telling Charlie the other day about a guy who wrote me because his uncle worked in the film industry and hoarded a lot of movie posters through the years. Uncle wanted to sell them and the guy had no idea about pricing, where to sell, etc. I wrote him several emails with information I thought could be useful and ultimately adviced him to consign some stuff to Bruce and sell some stuff on ebay himself.
    One of the first posters he listed on ebay was an argentinean one sheet for "Murder at the Baskervilles". I remember I was watching the auction (as it was the first time I had seen that poster), and  in the last minute went to +$1000.
    He then sold several more, I think around 8 copies through ebay. Last one went for $33. See here

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    And I am almost sure all the copies Bruce auctioned were consigned by him. They realized $136.00, then $72.00, and last one for $54.00
  • MattMatt
    That's a massive drop in price, thanks for sharing that story M.
  • 110x75110x75
    Yes it was. The first price was an anomaly. The buyer of that first one probably wants to kick himself in the arse right now, but at that time, he sure thought it was a poster that would not come in the market in the next years. Who would have thought the seller had more than a dozen, all in great condition?
  • DavidDavid
    edited July 2014
    Wow - $1,000+ down to $33 - that'd make you pass out from that price drop

    I have a rule, once I have bought something I never check if they are on special or something similar later...just wish my wife would follow the same rule
  • 110x75110x75
    Wives follow no rules David...
  • RichRich
    edited July 2014
    this is exactly what happens when someone just sells without any cognition of what it does to the market.

    X_X

    There are common sense ways to sell in situations like this and consider that if you sell them much slower - over years - you maintain a price level that makes you more money

    from a buyer's side, I have one and paid about $100 but the price keeps getting driven down further.
    it was a great poster, and now it's junk.

  • 110x75110x75
    well Rich, thank god he doesn't have a bunch of those Dusturan posters you and I have ;)
  • 110x75110x75
    And he also seems to have a neverending suply of Endless Summer arg one sheets, but those bastards don't go down in price
  • 110x75110x75
    Another one on HA...

    http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/mystery/murder-at-the-baskervilles-monitor-1937-argentinean-poster-29-x-43-mystery/a/161430-54320.s?type=wlem&wlc=337829022


  • 110x75110x75
    Same HA auction has other argentineans that were also in emovie recently, like Endless Summer, The getaway, Man who felt to earth, Zabriskie point, and so on.
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