Mid-auction analysis - OMGs!, LOLs!, WTFs!, whatev....

[rumble]

Just incredible.

[guest4955]

Terrific PF "Lucky Strikes" coming up at HA sig:



*****

But way cooler is this fella's t-shirt, which has the ENTIRE PF script:



Uncomfortable Silences

Mia: "Don't you hate that?"
Vincent: "What?"
Mia: "Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bulls**t in order to be comfortable?"
Vincent: "I don't know. That's a good question."
Mia: "That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence."

[erik1925]

This Italian 4-fogli for Breakfast at Tiffany's (Brini art) with an estimate of $20-40K 

Holy mackerel. 

https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/romance/breakfast-at-tiffany-s-paramount-1961-italian-4-fogli-55-x-78-ercole-brini-artwork/a/7167-86442.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

[wonka]

Hipster shirt is hip.

[eatbrie]

Just checked Bruce’s auctions for tomorrow.  Why did they have to separate a complete set of LCs like The Birds?  Sets are hard enough to find complete, now someone most surely will end up with an incomplete one.  I don’t get that.  Keep the sets together.

T

[jayn_j]

Just checked Bruce’s auctions for tomorrow.  Why did they have to separate a complete set of LCs like The Birds?  Sets are hard enough to find complete, now someone most surely will end up with an incomplete one.  I don’t get that.  Keep the sets together.

T

According to Bruce's earlier posts, splitting sets is totally under the control of the person consigning them.  The seller believes the split set will go for an overall higher price, even with Bruce's larger commission for each card.  The 8 cards combined are at $686 with a day to go, and will undoubtedly go higher.  Just looked at Bruce's archives and the set has traditionally gone for $500-650.

Besides, building the set is part of the fun.  I collect sets when available, but also have many partials that I slowly build up.  It is a real rush when you find that 8th card to complete a set.

[eatbrie]

According to Bruce's earlier posts, splitting sets is totally under the control of the person consigning them.  The seller believes the split set will go for an overall higher price, even with Bruce's larger commission for each card.  The 8 cards combined are at $686 with a day to go, and will undoubtedly go higher.  Just looked at Bruce's archives and the set has traditionally gone for $500-650.

Greedy bastards.  Always more money, gimme, gimme, gimme...  No ethics.

Besides, building the set is part of the fun.  I collect sets when available, but also have many partials that I slowly build up.  It is a real rush when you find that 8th card to complete a set.

Not to me.  I only buy full sets.  I don't care about the Birds set, already own it, but I find it sad.  Again, greed wins it all.

T

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Greedy bastards.  Always more money, gimme, gimme, gimme...  No ethics. Again, greed wins it all.

T

this equation exists on both sides of the fence.

[jayn_j]

Greedy bastards.  Always more money, gimme, gimme, gimme...  No ethics.

Not to me.  I only buy full sets.  I don't care about the Birds set, already own it, but I find it sad.  Again, greed wins it all.

T

I only have a couple of The Birds cards myself.  Not what I usually collect, but I lived in Santa Rosa and we used to drive down to Bodega Bay for fresh crab and a nice drive.  I picked the cards that fed nostalgia for me.

[eatbrie]

Ha, I forgot that Santa Rosa is where they shot the movie.  I need to go check it out one of these days.

T

[jayn_j]

According to Bruce's earlier posts, splitting sets is totally under the control of the person consigning them.  The seller believes the split set will go for an overall higher price, even with Bruce's larger commission for each card.  The 8 cards combined are at $686 with a day to go, and will undoubtedly go higher.  Just looked at Bruce's archives and the set has traditionally gone for $500-650.

Just to close this out.  The 8 cards went to 6 different bidders for a total of $967.  Way above the $600-650 the set would have sold for.

[eatbrie]

Maybe, maybe not.

https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/hitchcock/the-birds-universal-1963-lobby-card-set-of-8-11-x-14-total-8-items-/a/7162-86708.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Anyhow, I think it's sad.

T

[erik1925]

This Realart 1951RR insert for Frankenstein certainly seems to be doing mighty fine in HA's current Sig Auction.

Not too shabby for a RR, with the high bid currently at $5500.00 (+ the BP)

https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/horror/frankenstein-realart-r-1951-insert-14-x-36-/a/7167-86297.s?ic5=CatalogHome-ActionArea-JumpToLot-071515

[Simes]

Greedy bastards.  Always more money, gimme, gimme, gimme...  No ethics.

T

Isn't this purely a celebration of the capitalist world in which we live?  Not sure ethics comes into it unless one counts stupidity or charity as being related.

That said, I haven't done the calculations as to whether the higher commission rates for lesser valued items would in fact serve only to shoot the consignor in the foot.

[Crazy Vick]

This Realart 1951RR insert for Frankenstein certainly seems to be doing mighty fine in HA's current Sig Auction.

Not too shabby for a RR, with the high bid currently at $5500.00 (+ the BP)

Re: why prices are going down the toilet

[ladeda]

This Realart 1951RR insert for Frankenstein certainly seems to be doing mighty fine in HA's current Sig Auction.

Not too shabby for a RR, with the high bid currently at $5500.00 (+ the BP)

I don't... I don't... understand

[skyjackers]

I'm finding it hard to understand how this item could attract any bids. I guess emovie think it will have some value or they wouldn't be auctioning it.

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=4828098

[eatbrie]

Wow, it's a Back to the Future poster I don't own.  Must bid on it immediately.

 

T

[erik1925]

I'm finding it hard to understand how this item could attract any bids. I guess emovie think it will have some value or they wouldn't be auctioning it.

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=4828098

Maybe there is some value, too, because the poster, tho from humid South America, shows no signs of Fox-ing. 

[Neo]

I'm finding it hard to understand how this item could attract any bids. I guess emovie think it will have some value or they wouldn't be auctioning it.

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=4828098

The poster was trimmed massively, reattached, and repainted, to make an entirely different poster from what it started (see above).

The artistic liberty someone took with that is interesting.  I'd like to see more stuff like that.

[MoviePosterBid.com]

The poster was trimmed massively, reattached, and repainted, to make an entirely different poster from what it started (see above).

The artistic liberty someone took with that is interesting.  I'd like to see more stuff like that.

why would anyone sell a pos like this?

I usually throw stuff like this either into the trash or at best, into a pile of stuff that will be sold as a pile of crap.

[Neo]

why would anyone sell a pos like this?

I usually throw stuff like this either into the trash or at best, into a pile of stuff that will be sold as a pile of crap.

Good for you.

 

[skyjackers]

Wow, it's a Back to the Future poster I don't own.  Must bid on it immediately.

 

T

I thought of you immediately when I saw it. Apologies for outing the auction. Hopefully it won't get run up too much 

[eatbrie]

I thought of you immediately when I saw it. Apologies for outing the auction. Hopefully it won't get run up too much 

Damn you!!!  I'm actually quite surprised Bruce is auctioning something like this.  So he will just auction everything?

T

[DekeThornton]

All joking aside, it is a real mystery why someone would do that to a poster.

Drawing mustaches or poking holes in nipples or whatever else people typically do to deface posters, I can at least understand.

But somebody spent actual time and effort modifying that poster. WHY??  I'd bid $1 if I thought it would solve the mystery.