This publication lists 20,000 verified sales results
from eMoviePoster.com's 2003 auctions (EVERY item that sold for $17
or more) and ALSO, in a separate table, EVERY item eMoviePoster.com
has EVER (from 1990 to 2002) auctioned for $400 or more (over 5,000
verified sales results)! EVERY result gives the condition of the item
sold (vital information lacking from any other database), and important
extra info, like style type.
WHY ARE ONLY eMoviePoster.com's RESULTS INCLUDED
IN THIS PUBLICATION? Because (since we own this business) we know
for certain that every one of these sales actually took place and,
except for some of the very oldest sales, which are clearly marked,
we know for certain that the listed price is the actual price that
was paid for that item IN CASH! There are other movie paper databases
and price guides, but they are filled with guessed at prices or "asking
prices" and in far too many cases NO ONE has ever paid the listed
price for a particular poster. In our database you know for sure that
every listed price represents an actual sale (we know of no other
dealer or auction house that maintains a database of actual sales
results, deleting sales that "fell through", or changing
prices where the price was re-negotiated. It is also a fact of life
that "reported sales results" from other dealers and auction
houses must be taken with a large grain of salt, for there is no guarantee
that many of those sales actually occurred (since there is no government
regulation of any aspect of the auction business, as there is with
so many other major financial businesses), or if they did, that the
actual price paid was the reported price. If an auction house chooses
to, they can report any results they want (real, inflated, or imagined)
since they keep all transactions private and there is no way to verify
what they say. WHEN YOU SEE ANY RESULT IN THIS PUBLICATION, YOU KNOW
THAT EXACT PRICE WAS PAID (IN CASH) FOR THAT EXACT POSTER!
Due to space limitations, the first table in this
publication contains roughly half of all the items eMoviePoster.com
sold in the year 2003. We chose to drop out those items that for the
lowest amounts (those under $17) because we reasoned that many of
those items are among the least desirable items, and that many were
probably in lesser condition, which would help account for their selling
for low amounts.
The second table in this publication contains roughly 5% of all the
items eMoviePoster.com sold between 1990 and 2002, again due to space
limitations. We chose to include the very highest priced items we
sold during that period, those items selling for $400 or more. We
reasoned that most people would find the most interest in the older
results of the more expensive items, so that they could find items
that are rarely offered for sale, and therefore would be far less
likely to be included in the 2003 results table.
But if you have an interest in seeing the other 50% of the items eMoviePoster.com
sold in the year 2003, and the other 95% of the items eMoviePoster.com
sold between 1990 and 2002, you can easily do so! EVERY one of our
140,000+ sales results from the past 14 years can be found in our
online database at http://www.emovieposter.com/ebay_results/default.cfm
The online database is completely searchable, and you can search by
title (as you can in this printed publication) but you can also search
by year, or star, or genre, or even by size, and you can search again
within your search results.
Size/Type Abbreviations used in this publication:
1sheet = one-sheet, LC = lobby card, Aust = Australian, WC = window
card, 1/2sh = half-sheet, pb = pressbook, 6sh = six-sheet, 2p = two-panel,
3sh = three-sheet, 3p = three-panel, Can 1sh = Canadian one-sheet,
Eng = English, Eng FOH LC = English Front of House, lobby card, Eng
prog = English program, 1p = one-panel, 2sh = two-sheet, mag. ad =
magazine ad, repro = reproduction
Condition Abbreviations used in this publication:
Fn = fine, NM = near mint, Fr = fair, G = good, VG = very good, P
= poor, * = we don't know the condition of that item, because this
item was sold prior to the time when we saved this information.
Extra Information Abbreviations used in this publication:
Int'l = International release, DS = double-sided, review = review
style, TC = Title card, ch = chapter, signed = autographed, taped
= poster with many pieces that has been taped together, Ann'y = Anniversary,
#pcs = number of pieces poster is in, #pgs = number of pages, FOR
= Foriegn release, adv = advance,
**FBO = means that when we sold that item we offered a free full-color
book with the purchase. It is possible the buyer bid more for the
item because of the free book. We add this information for the sake
of accuracy!
+or- = These items were sold from our oldest semi-annual sales catalogs,
and the prices listed are the prices that were listed in the catalogs.
Because of the way items were sold, some items may have sold for more
or less than the listed prices, but every item actually sold for somewhere
near that price (unsold items were deleted)
A few final words about this publication. We know
that EVERY result from 2003 is exactly correct, because those results
were taken from our database from which we paid our consignors, and
we make sure that database is 100% accurate. There may be a very few
incorrect results in the table that lists results from 1990 to 2002,
because most of those items were sold in pre-computer days, and we
needed to re-create those results by hand, but if there are any errors
they are very few in number, and of course, if we discover any, we
will immediately correct them.
Realize that what a poster sold for in the past is not necessarily
a good indicator of what it will sell for in the future, but it is
certainly an excellent guideline. We intend to publish a 2005 edition
of this publication in early 2005, giving all 2004 sales results.
No doubt many of the posters in this publication will have re-sold
for vastly different amounts!
Finally, I need to say that all of the work involved in creating this
publication was done by Phillip Wages (webmaster of eMoviePoster.com)
and Brian Bukantis (publisher of Movie Collectors World. Thanks to
their fine efforts, all collectors now have a way to get a realistic
idea of the value of their movie paper collectibles, using verified
price results as guide!
Bruce Hershenson
February 2004
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