Quote from Bruce recently: "I am strongly considering no longer taking low value rolled posters at all. They are a huge money loser for us. Then we won't have these kinds of issues at all."
This would probably be the very best move you could make for both emovieposter (and to help other dealers).
Why? Well let's look at the numbers you reported for this past year:
Bruce said that in 2016, he sold 87,515 items for $19 or less.
We also know that Bruce loses money on those 87,515 sales as "Note that we will not come close to breaking even on the sub-$20 items, because we have an hour of labor in every item, and we don't get enough to pay for that hour for items that sell for under $20, plus we still have to pay all the web hosting fees, advertising fees, and credit card fees"
Those 87,515 items equal 87,515 hours of labor. A 40 hour workweek, times 52 weeks a year is 2,080 hours of work per employee a year. Bruce has 29 employees, so that means the most (non-overtime) labor they can do in a year is 60,320 hours.
Bruce's employees must EACH work nearly a year and a half just to supply the labor needed to auction one year's worth of sub $20 posters, or they each have to work 58 hours a week to cover it.
And that's just the items that sell for sub-$20!! What about the other 50,000 items a year he sells for more than $20?
That's another 33 hours of work per person! (50,000 items, divided by 29 people, divided by 52 weeks).
This means Bruce makes each employee work 91 hours a week! If poster collectors have a heart and any compassion at all they will demand that this travesty be stopped right away.
I know what you're thinking "that's only 13 hours a day, I would love to spend 13 hours a day looking at posters"
This might be true, but it doesn't mean others should be forced into labor for 91 hours a week to make sure that some posters get sold for dollar or two.
So have a heart Bruce, stop making your employees work 91 hours a week and stop selling sub-$20 posters.