Everybody" knows that you can't get any "deals" on movie posters anymore!
But in fact, "everybody" is wrong, at least when it comes to OUR auctions! It IS true in many other so-called "$1, No Reserve" auctions, you quickly learn that there is fine print that puts a MASSIVE minimum $14 buyers premium on all purchases, so that "$1, No Reserve" poster ends up costing you FIFTEEN DOLLARS (and sometimes there is exorbitant shipping added on as well)!
But in OUR auctions (at
www.eMoviePoster.com), we have NO buyers premiums at all, so a $1 poster is REALLY a $1 poster! And we have the cold hard statistics to back up what we say. In 2010 alone we auctioned a grand total of 93,576 items (more than any other movie paper auction house has auctioned in their entire existence!).
Of those:
6,908 items sold for exactly $1
10,248 items sold for $2 or less
15,764 items sold for $3 or less
20,167 items sold for $4 or less
23,623 items sold for $5 or less
27,703 items sold for $6 or less
31,183 items sold for $7 or less
33,783 items sold for $8 or less
36,596 items sold for $9 or less
38,722 items sold for $10 or less
39,585 items sold for $11 or less
43,268 items sold for $12 or less
45,985 items sold for $13 or less
48,923 items sold for $14 or less
That means that over HALF of the items we auctioned in 2010 sold for under $15! We know that in those auctions with the $14 buyers premiums, they did not sell even ONE item for under $15, because even when an item sells for just $1 in their auctions, the $14 buyers premium brings it to $15, so EVERY item they auction sells for at least $15, plus shipping.
In these uncertain economic times, doesn't it make sense to spend your money where it goes the absolute furthest? We auction everything with a $1 opening bid and no reserves, and we only charge the actual cost of shipping (often less, when a buyer buys multiple items). We regularly give lots of great bonuses, often more valuable than the items required to qualify for them!
Every week, we auction 1,000 to 2,000 items in our Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday auctions combined, and it is a certainty that some fair percentage of them sell for "bargain" prices in every set of auctions, and there are often some absolute "steals"!
Of course, we also sell LOTS of high quality movie paper. In 2010 alone, we auctioned 5,800 items for over $100, and our top item on the year was the GILDA style B one-sheet which auctioned for $25,657!
We ended with $3,362,657 in total sales for 2010 (our all-time record sales year, and our third THREE million dollar year, our eighth consecutive year of two MILLION dollars of sales, and our TWENTY-FIRST consecutive year of ONE million dollar plus sales, and it proves that an honestly run auction absolutely CAN get just as good (or better) results than those who use shady business practices! We broke our total sales results for 2009 (which were $3,302,423.00, which had been our record sales year ever)! Our sales keep rising year after year, while most other auctions keep seeing steadily declining sales.
We auctioned around 8,000 more items in 2010 that we did in 2009, but we auctioned fewer items in our Tuesday and Thursday auctions than we had the previous year (the reason we still increased our total number of items was because of the addition of our Sunday auctions).
So whether you are looking for great deals, or the finest movie paper, or anything in-between, remember that eMoviePoster.com has sold more original vintage movie posters than anyone else in the entire world, and we have been in business for over 21 years!
