Matt and Charlie should be nominated for the William Shatner overacting hall of fame.
As I said before, I found AuctionZip.com totally on my own, as could anybody doing a simple search for "auction locator" or "auction finder" on Google. It's the number one search result:
Matt and I later discussed AuctionZip.com but I certainly never agreed or implied to keep it a "secret." And why is Matt publicly proclaiming he got some of his best deals through AuctionZip? I didn't mention that.
Why explicitly reveal it now? I'm tired of Matt and Paul jumping on anyone mentioning any auction or particular item for auction, notwithstanding Holiday's pronouncement that there are no restrictions on this forum. They went too far this time by inappropriately intimidating another member for "revealing" a prominent MOVIE POSTER auction with ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX MOVIE POSTERS for auction.
And I'm sure Matt will continue to find many stellar deals through AuctionZip. It's still too much time and trouble for most collectors to deal with the smaller auctions. Even though I've known about it for quite a while, I've rarely checked out any non-live-lot listing. Typically, I only look at the auctions with several "live lots."
Regardless, the collectors on this board and the readers of MoviePosterCollectors.com deserve to know about AuctionZip.com since it's a useful movie poster auction locator.
It's certainly not a "secret."
It claims to have 1.6 million MONTHLY visitors and be affiliated with 25,000 auctioneers.I've previously referenced it:
http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,237.msg93503.html#msg93503All dealers in this business obviously know about it and other collectors have expressly referenced it on the movie poster boards:
In the end, AuctionZip.com is simply a useful tool, nothing more, nothing less, just like:
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Gavelsnipe.com (free sniping)
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WatchedItem.com (find number of watchers, which shows general level of interest in poster)
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Google Translator (to read foreign language poster websites and communicate with non-English speaking dealers)
P.S. Garth's Auctions needs to change its business name, hard to take it seriously: