Your best buys

[ladeda]

Come across posters where you usually wouldn't? Snagged yourself something rare when people weren't looking? Grabbed yourself a bargain you had no business with?

Not necessarily your favourites, but what are your best purchases? Share your stories

[eatbrie]

I’ve been racking my brains trying to figure out what my best buys have been, but I can’t come up with anything.  Mostly because since I don’t sell, it’s hard to know what a given poster would sell for vs what I paid for it.  I know that a lot of my 80s posters were great buys.  I bought them 10 years ago before the 80s became the decade of choice.  I see what some of them sell for at Emovieposter and I’m always like: Wtf is wrong with all these people

T

[marklawd]

Buying Mondo prints in the early years in a relaxed timescale and at cost.

Mark

[Harry Caul]

I’ve been racking my brains trying to figure out what my best buys have been, but I can’t come up with anything.  Mostly because since I don’t sell, it’s hard to know what a given poster would sell for vs what I paid for it.  I know that a lot of my 80s posters were great buys.  I bought them 10 years ago before the 80s became the decade of choice.  I see what some of them sell for at Emovieposter and I’m always like: Wtf is wrong with all these people

T

I sold you a mint/rolled Chantrell style Star Wars Aussie 1-sheet for a $100 some years back -- that should count!

It came out of one my best finds -- a group of ~25 mostly rolled, mostly mint Star Wars posters that I won for the opening bid of $50: http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,224.msg52086.html#msg52086

In it were the above SW Aussie 1-sheet, rolled ESB Aussie 1-sheet, rolled GWTW ESB 1-sheet, rolled circus style SW 1-sheet, rolled style B ESB, rolled ROTJ styles A and B, and on and on.  Definitely one of my better finds.  And I shouldn't have sold that Aussie SW without more research first -- been looking for one to replace it since!

[eatbrie]

I sold you a mint/rolled Chantrell style Star Wars Aussie 1-sheet for a $100 some years back -- that should count!

I don't think its worth much more than that, so no, it doesn't count.  Getting 5 rolled mint Revenge of the Jedi posters for free, yeah, maybe

T

[eatbrie]

And I agree with Mark...

All of these, and many more, bought for less than $50...  Now that's pretty good, right?  Yeah, these are my best purchases.



T

[guest4955]

No question the Mondos have been the "best buys" in my day (size 2009). The original MP market has been relatively stable comparatively.

I got Ansin's POTO for $150 and resold it 6 pos. later for $600. But it shortly thereafter zoomed to $2000. 



*****

When I had to unload my Round 1 collection on EMP in 2015, I made a lot of money on a FEW posters I had found on eBay cheap. Mostly broke even.

But I made roughly $1800 on LAC, $1000 on IMAW, and $1000 on the YOLTs combined. The rest of my best buys I only made $100-$300, ex. Animal House.

[timelessmoviemagic]

Hmmm this is pretty difficult.

One of my best buys was at a small online auction down in the south of the UK. They only had about 15 movie lots and I bid on a Thing quad which I lost out on. However, I left a ridiculously small commission bid on something advertised as a Rambo 2 quad with 3 other posters.

Well the three others was a Rambo first blood 60x40, a Rambo 2 60x40 and a Big Trouble in Little China 60x40.

I couldn't believe my luck!

[CJ138]

I bought a Nightmare on Elm Street quad (folded) for $150. I feel pretty good about that one. 

[originalcinemaposters]

i bought a speculative Breakfast a Tiffanys premiere invite ticket for £10, sold it for over £1000. Happy days
Or my Star Wars Pre Oscars Quad for £80, which i doubt i will ever sell!

[ladeda]

I won a set of four Buster Keaton Swedish posters from a general auction for around $100. I originally thought I was bidding on just the one. All were in pretty rough condition and because older Swedish posters become brittle I didn't want to hold on to them.
I consigned one to EMP, sold two to private collectors and partially traded the last with a local dealer.

[erik1925]

I won a set of four Buster Keaton Swedish posters from a general auction for around $100. I originally thought I was bidding on just the one. All were in pretty rough condition and because older Swedish posters become brittle I didn't want to hold on to them.
I consigned one to EMP, sold two to private collectors and partially traded the last with a local dealer.

These sounds fantastic, ladeda.

Do you have pictures of these posters, by any chance? 

[erik1925]

A similar thread also exists here, describing other members' examples, too. Good stuff! 

http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,5608.0.html

[erik1925]

A couple years ago, I was excited and lucky enough to be able to pick up both the US advance (NSS) and studio style US OS for Escape From New York (1981), for $10.00 a piece.

[CJ138]

How many is "a couple" Jeff?! Great pick up! I love the posters and the movie. Sold mine a year or two ago. I miss it.

[erik1925]

No more than 2-2.5 yrs ago, Conor.

[ladeda]

These sounds fantastic, ladeda.

Do you have pictures of these posters, by any chance? 

I don't have photos anymore I'm afraid.


A sort of best buy by proxy: I was with a friend when he picked up Barbarella Style B one sheet for under £100 at a retro market. Gutted I didn't jump at it myself