PropStore Cinema Poster Auction

[CinematicFanatic]

PropStore currently has a movie poster auction running as we speak.

Has anyone purchased anything?

[eatbrie]

I have never bought anything from that place,.  Way too expensive if I recall.

T

[CinematicFanatic]

Hi T!

Hope you have been well.

Yes, very expensive indeed. Way overpriced on everything and not to mention the 25% auction fee, plus shipping costs!

A lot of prints at the moment but there is original posters on there too. A few Star Wars bits that people on here have but already looking way overpriced.

[eatbrie]

Yeah, I was just checking the sale out.  It's really sub-par prints.  Nothing great there.

I just saw 1,900 pounds for Stout's Kill Bill.  Add 25% and it's $3,000.  Ridiculous.

T

[eatbrie]

Oh, and I just realize that they don't sell if it's below their ridiculous estimate.  Complete BS imo.

T

[CinematicFanatic]

I noticed that. The lady auctioneer also had a snotty response of "it stays with me then" when it didn't meet the estimate.

Daylight robbery some of these places!

[eatbrie]

I couldn't agree more.  Which is why they will never get my money.

 

T

[timelessmoviemagic]

And then you get the Bradford lot buying the double crown for £400 and immediately throwing it on Ebay for £2k best offer.

They didn't even bother to take their own photo - just cropped Prop stores image a little smaller.

[marklawd]

......Way overpriced on everything and not to mention the 25% auction fee, plus shipping costs!

£6000 ($7920) for the Pulp Fiction "Lucky Strikes" one sheet and £13000 ($17156) for the Star Wars "Hildebrandt" quad - plus commission!

Mark

[CinematicFanatic]

That Star Wars one at the very end was a charity lot towards Ukraine and they said they would be taking no fee's on that one.

I think the highest one outside of that was the transparent Star Wars artwork which went for around £9,000 from memory?

I sent a guy I work with the link to the auction and he bought the Halloween one, I posted a thread on here for valuation as I'm curious to see whether he got value or not.

[eatbrie]

I wonder how true that is, the charity thing, or if it’s just a ploy to make more money.  Nothing surprises me these days and I do not trust any charities.  It always goes to someone.

Regardless, that’s an insane price for a poster that is rare, but not that rare.

And the Lucky Strike is not rare at all.

T

[redman]

^ i would 100% trust an auctioneer to honour charity stuff, are things different in USA?

[eatbrie]

Sorry, I don't.

T