Why are video posters more rare than theater posters?

[Chop-Top]

Ebay has about a 10:1 ratio of theater posters to video posters. Shouldn't it be the other way around considering video posters are produced later than the theater posters?

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Ebay has about a 10:1 ratio of theater posters to video posters. Shouldn't it be the other way around considering video posters are produced later than the theater posters?

FEW VIDEO POSTERS SELL WELL OR FOR ANY MONEY, SO NOBODY MESSES WITH THEM

oops.. sorry for all caps

[Bruce]

Actually, video posters have been starting to come into their own! We have been including more and more of them, because some of them have been starting to bring respectable prices (especially ones with completely different art from the theater posters, and from better movies).

Why are there so relatively few? Partly for what Rich said, but partly because few people thought they were worth anything. I was offered 100,000 of them for 10 cents each, and I was going to buy them and use them as WRAPPING PAPER for my orders, but the cost of getting them from the seller to me was astronomical, so that blew that deal, but it gives you a sense of how nobody wanted them 10 years ago!

Of course, there may well be a warehouse of them somewhere, and if prices take off, they may surface. That is the "X factor" of collecting any movie posters.

Bruce

[Severen]

In my opinion a lot of them have probably been destroyed over the years because as Bruce said nobody really didn't think they were worth anything. My Grandma started a chain of video stores in 1982 and owned them until the late 90s so I kinda grew up hanging around video stores. She used to get so much promotional stuff from the studios it was unbelievable. Rolls and Rolls of posters. The whole back room would be full of posters, standees, t-shirts, banners, stuff that was never even opened because there was so much of it. We would have to pitch the stuff in the dumpster just to make room for more stuff coming in. Back in the 80s the studios were very aggressive with promo material for the videos because believe it or not the VHS tapes back then were not cheap for the video store owners to buy when the movies were first released. I think back to all the cool stuff we got and it just kills me that I didn't keep more of it but I was very young and didn't know any better. 2 really cool things I remember her getting was a really nice Indiana Jones hat and a Chuckie doll when Childs Play came out. I had that Chuckie for years but lost it in one of my many moves I guess. In the end as far as the posters go, a small percentage were givin away to customers but the majority of them were just chucked into the dumpster. I realize this is just one example and other store owners might have saved everything but I thought I would share this story. 

[Ari]

yep, Id pay more for certian video posters than theatre ones. Id invest ("invest") in certian titles, esp 80's horror posters, UK video nasty stuff especially. I have a num,ber and they sell well, I have a number I wont sell yet, They CAN be great, more recent ones, like newer theatre posters (sorry folks, are often ugly, but some earlier ones, are JUST what people my age remember, and thats what people collect,,MEMORIES.