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*About our 9th Annual Halloween Auction
*Special Bonus: Invasion of the Saucer Men limited edition full-color t-shirt!
*Special Notes About Tuesday Items (ending October 28th)
*Payment Options
*U.S. Shipping Details
*Non-U.S. Shipping Details
*Add More to Your Order: We added hundreds of new items to our Fixed Price section for a total of 422, most of which can be added to your order for NO additional shipping cost!  You really must check out our Fixed Priced items HERE, or Learn More!

Our 9th Annual Halloween Auction is our largest offering of horror, science fiction, and fantasy posters ever (roughly 2,000 items in all, and it really is our best Halloween auction to date, in terms of both quantity AND quality)!

This special auction is being run in three (or four!) separate parts:

• Part I runs from Tuesday 10/21 to Tuesday 10/28 and includes 640 folded one-sheets and 334 lobby cards (1 to 8 cards per title!)
   
• Part II will run from Thursday 10/23 to Thursday 10/30 and will include rolled one-sheets, inserts, half-sheets, many Japanese B2 posters, and many other posters from lots of different countries!
   
• Part III will run from Tuesday 10/28 to Tuesday 11/4 and will include just about everything that did not fit in the above two parts, including linenbacked posters, window cards, three-sheets, six-sheets, and more!
   
• We aren't sure if there will be a Part IV, but if there is, it will run from Thursday 10/30 to Thursday 11/6 and it will include any items that we did not have time to finish listing in time to be in Part III!

What distinguishes OUR annual Halloween auction from other major auctions?  Only the lack of any reserves or buyers premiums!  You will find a truly amazing selection of items from all years, sizes, and countries!

Start browsing and bidding in Part I of our 9th Halloween auction in our Tuesday Auction Gallery (the galleries for Part II, III, and IV will be added 10/23, 10/28, and 10/30, respectively)!  PREPARE TO BE DAZZLED!

INCREDIBLE!  Every buyer from ANY part of our "Halloween" auctions receives a great super high quality full-color printed t-shirt as a free bonus (even if you only purchase one item)!
     We are giving every buyer in ANY part of these special auctions the great full-color T-shirt pictured at right, which shows the image from the one-sheet for Invasion of the Saucer-Men (we will only be making as many t-shirts as there are different buyers in these auctions, so it will be a VERY limited edition, and likely will become a "collector's item" in its own right!). Given that you get this great full-color T-shirt with any purchase, shouldn't you absolutely find any one item to purchase from us from among the roughly 2,000 items in these special auctions?
     *Note: we give this shirt (which costs us $9 to $11 each at wholesale, because they are very high quality) to anyone who purchases one or more items in any part of our Halloween auctions.  BUT KNOW THAT YOU ONLY GET ONE SHIRT, NO MATTER HOW MANY ITEMS YOU PURCHASE, AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASE FROM ONE OR MORE OF THE PARTS OF THIS SPECIAL AUCTION.

SUPER IMPORTANT!  Normally, you can pay for your purchases by simply adding the total amount you spent, and then adding $9 for U.S. shipping (many of our customers simply e-mail to "put this purchase on my card on file").  BUT IN THIS ONE CASE ONLY (because of the bonus t-shirt), YOU NEED TO ALSO TELL US YOUR SHIRT SIZE!  We can't send your order unless you inform us of what size shirt you want!

About the Condition of the Lobby Cards
     Note that we have many excellent condition, unrestored lobby cards this week! Most of these come to us from a couple of very long time collectors who were "condition conscious", and who tried to buy unrestored lobby cards whenever possible!  58% of the cards in this auction are completely unrestored, and approximately 36% of the cards in this auction are both "high grade" (either "fine" or "very good to fine", and OUR high grade cards are graded very strictly!), and also completely unrestored!

     Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", and "good", with only a few graded "fair") along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much only if they are defects that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable).  We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily.  Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the item for minor defects that we did NOT describe.

     Please remember that our grading system is FAR more harsh than any other dealer we know of! We feel certain that our "very good to fine" condition grade compares favorably to most dealers' "near mint" grade and our "fine" condition grade compares favorably to most dealers' "mint" grade!

    We did not describe most of the tiny defects these cards have in words, so we strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see whatever tiny defects any of these cards may have.

     IMPORTANT! There are constant rumors that "slabbing" of lobby cards is "just around the corner". Slabbing is encasing items in a hard plastic sleeve with a seal that can't be broken, and then the items are professionally graded. ANY restoration of any kind, as well as a detailed condition description is noted on the back of the sleeve. Proponents of slabbing say that it takes all the guesswork out of grading items, and it brings lots of new collectors into a hobby, who are no longer afraid of buying an over-graded item, or one with hidden restoration. It is indisputable that slabbing attracts a lot of "investors" into a hobby, and almost always slabbing of items is followed by a sharp rise in the price of "high grade" UNRESTORED items. If the people who currently "slab" other collectibles begin to do so with lobby cards, then it is very likely prices will rise on them as well.  The above is why we clearly identify which lobby cards are completely unrestored (and in this context, "unrestored" means no restoration of any kind, including tape, on either the front or the back of the card).

About the Condition of the Folded One-Sheets
     Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", "good", and "fair", with only a few graded "poor") along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much only if they are defects that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable).  Note that we try to always note ANY tape on the back, although we might sometimes miss a tiny piece, but if there is any significant tape on the back of the poster, it will absolutely be mentioned in the condition description. We feel that doing this helps bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily.  Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe.

    If an item is in less than very good condition, should you not bid on it? Of course not, as long as you are accepting of the defects the poster has! The item that is graded "very good", but has as many minor defects as is allowed under the "very good" definition is only in SLIGHTLY better condition than the best of the "good to very good" items. So please take the time to look at the larger images of items that interest you, and see if the defects are the sort that you can "live with", or are willing to restore. Some of these items are EXTREMELY rare, and it may be years before you see them offered again!

Payment Options
We accept all major credit cards, either directly over the phone at 417-256-9616 during our regular business hours which are Monday to Friday, 9 AM CST to 5 PM CST except between 12 and 1 when we take lunch, or you can e-mail us payment details, and there are still a few people who fax us!

If you like to pay via Paypal (our PayPal e-mail is "mail@emovieposter.com"), that is fine, but know that PayPal has many glitches, and you should ABSOLUTELY e-mail us separately when you send us a PayPal payment!

You can send a check or money order (if you do, enclose your address and details about what you purchased) to:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Payments
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775

If it is your best payment option, you can pay by Western Union (unlike SOME auction sites, we are not prejudiced against Western Union!).  But please don't send cash (as we can't be responsible for lost cash)!
 

SUPER IMPORTANT!  Normally, you can pay for your purchases by simply adding the total amount you spent, and then adding $9 for U.S. shipping (many of our customers simply e-mail to "put this purchase on my card on file").  BUT IN THIS ONE CASE ONLY (because of the bonus t-shirt), YOU NEED TO ALSO TELL US YOUR SHIRT SIZE!  We can't send your order unless you inform us of what size shirt you want!

Why do we charge $9, when we used to charge $9 to $11 on eBay?
     We spend $9 (or more) on almost all U.S. orders, because we use such good, heavy packaging (at least twice as strong as that used by most sellers), even on low priced orders (because we believe a low priced item still deserves the best handling)!
     We USED to charge $11 for shipping on U.S. orders over $100 when we sold on eBay, but now that we are auctioning on our own site we have lowered that to $9, which is both our way of thanking those who order a lot from us, and also our way of passing on our savings from not paying eBay commissions to our customers!

You CAN usually combine shipment!
(NOTE: This week's Tuesday items must be sent in flat packages and CAN be combined with the miscellaneous items we sold on 10/21 and CAN be combined with the still lots we are auctioning 10/23, but can NOT be combined with the items in Halloween Part II that we will be auctioning between 10/23 and 10/30, because we think it is a great mistake to unfold a folded one-sheet and roll it in a tube, due to the chance of damage)
     Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single week, and still pay only a single shipping charge for all of the items, but we also allow you to wait until next week's auctions end so that you can combine your current purchases with those of our following auctions (if possible), and since we do two sets of auctions every week, that means there is a chance you could combine items from up to four of our sets of auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge (assuming those items fit into the same type of package). We KNOW there are other sellers who charge a little less on shipping than we do, but we know that our packaging is the best there is, and our orders virtually never arrive damaged (and on the very rare times that they do, all our U.S. packages are fully insured, and FULL INSURANCE IS INCLUDED IN THE $9 U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE $9 U.S. SHIPPING!

Non-U.S. buyers must pay the actual cost of shipping their order (you can choose whatever method you prefer, but know that the U.S. Post Office has eliminated Surface Mail, so we can only send via Express or Airmail), plus $2 for the best packaging materials you have ever seen.  All non-U.S. buyers must tell us if they want the package sent insured or uninsured at the time they pay for their order.

Note that we will assume that all non-U.S. buyers want the great bonus t-shirt, unless they specifically tell us they do not want it!

Do you have a friend or relative who lives in the United States? Some of our customers either visit the U.S. regularly, or have friends or relatives within the U.S., and often those customers have us send their orders to a U.S. address, and then they transport the posters from there. THIS CAN SAVE YOU A GREAT DEAL ON SHIPPING! This is fine with us, but realize that you still need to let us know within one week of receipt if you want to return anything, so don't use this method unless you are certain you will want to keep your purchases.

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING (the actual cost of shipping plus $2 outside the U.S.)!