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eMoviePoster.com - The most trusted vintage original movie poster site & the only major online auction with no buyers premiums!
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Why do many
collectors pay higher prices to eMoviePoster.com when they can buy the
"same"
posters elsewhere for less money? |
One of the questions we
are asked most often is how we get the prices we do for so many items
that can be found elsewhere on the Internet. People look up prices in
our
Sales Results Database (which lists all of our sales results from
1990 to the present!), and they see prices our customers paid that are
sometimes quite a bit higher than they have seen the "same poster"
sell for. But is it the "SAME POSTER"? When we sell an item, it
is given a conservative condition grade, and we give a detailed
description of the poster's defects. WE NEVER OMIT ANY DEFECTS
TO MAKE THE POSTER SOUND BETTER THAN IT IS, AND WE NEVER "INFLATE" THE
CONDITION GRADE!But we have
bought many hundreds of posters ourselves, and we know for an
absolute fact, that many sellers do not adhere to our standards!
It has gotten to the point where we are pleasantly surprised if we
receive a poster, and it is even CLOSE to the condition grade the
seller said it was in, and we are even more pleasantly surprised if
the poster does not have significant undisclosed defects!
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is a poster we purchased on eBay. The seller
described it as being in "very good to fine" condition, and
mentioned that there was "slight" bleed through from writing
on the back. They provided a small fuzzy image w here
you could not see any writing anywhere. Of course, you
could say that we should have e-mailed the seller and asked
him to describe the poster further. But being that it
is a relatively inexpensive poster, we did not. Here is
a photo of the poster we received, along with a thumbnail of
part of the writing on the back that can be seen from the
front (click on the thumbnail to see a large image of all
the bleed through writing, which is over much of the image).
IF WE HAD BEEN THE SELLER OF THIS POSTER, WE WOULD HAVE
DESCRIBED IT AS "FAIR" CONDITION, AND NOTED THAT IT HAD
MAJOR BLEED THROUGH FROM WRITING ON THE BACK. Now, of
course, we would have probably gotten $1 for the
poster, but, on the other hand, the seller who deceived us will never get any more of
our money, whereas we have many
thousands of repeat customers! |
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   Here
is another poster we bought online. It was described as being in "very good" condition, with "a few rips
and tears".
Again, the picture was so small and fuzzy that you couldn't
make out much of
anything. On this page are images of the poster received (again, you
can click on the thumbnails to see full-sized images
of the damaged areas). Note that the poster has a
large censor stamp, several areas of paper loss, tape stains in the
image, etc! If we had sold this poster, we would have described its many
defects and would have graded it as being in "fair to good"
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I find it hard to
believe that the two different people who sold us these posters did
not know that they were intentionally deceiving us! These are
not two unusual cases. Over and over, we get posters that are
clearly over-graded and have defects that are ignored.
The next time you
are considering buying a poster from someone else, you might consider
doing what we do, which is to assume that the poster is in lesser
condition than they say it is, so as to offset some of the optimistic
grading commonly found with unscrupulous dealers. And when you buy a poster from us,
you might consider bidding a little higher, knowing that the poster is
surely in no worse condition than we described it, and you may actually
be pleasantly surprised when you receive it (because we are a "harsh"
grader). THE CHOICE IS YOURS!
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above is not to say that we don't SOMETIMES get more money for an
item than another seller who is selling the SAME item in
virtually the same condition. This can often be explained
by the "comfort level" that our buyers have, because they know we
do everything possible to make 100% certain you have a positive
buying experience, before, during, and after the sale!
When you compare our auctions to those of
other auctioneers (on eBay and elsewhere), is there really any
comparison?
If you have purchased from other auction companies (or those who
auction on eBay), how do they compare to our company,
eMoviePoster.com?
Do those other auction places:
1) ...describe ALL their items accurately
(both in regards to condition, and year of release of the item),
and gives you a conservative overall condition grade for every
item?
2) ...package ALL orders super-securely, with custom made
double-strength packaging?
3) ...have a no questions asked return policy on EVERY
item, and listen and act quickly on any complaints you may have
(and if they are at fault, do they pay all costs and give you
free bonuses as an apology)?
4) ...give you an absolute ironclad guarantee of originality of
EVERY item they sell (and take back any item that was
inadvertently misdescribed)?
5) ...send ALL orders very quickly (usually in 24 to 48
hours of receiving payment)?
6) ...quickly add any corrections when they make an error in an
item's description (either in regards to the film itself or the
condition of the poster), and do they immediately e-mail all
bidders on that item?
7) ...offer great FREE bonuses (both to those who buy
single items, and those who order multiple items in a single
week)?
8) ...have a cancellation policy that lets you cancel small wins
that are under the cost of shipping?
9) ...let you combine wins from up to FOUR different sets
of auctions, and pay only a single shipping charge if they can be
sent in a single package (up to EIGHT sets of auctions if
you live outside the U.S.)?
10) ...only charge you the actual shipping cost (sometimes
below!), plus just $2 for packaging materials?
11) ...provide unenhanced supersized images of ALL of
their items (ones that show 100% of the item, and let you see
virtually every flaw that the item has)?
12) ...start all of their items at $1, with no reserves on ANY
item?
13) ...have deceptive "buyers premiums" that enrich themselves,
but come out of the pockets of both buyers and sellers?
14) ...have phone, fax, and e-mail service and the ability to
take ANY kind of payment you choose to make, any way you
choose to make it?
15) ...let you see WHO is bidding on what items (including
all under bidders), both during the auctions and afterwards?
16) ...have an "autoship" option, where your purchases can be
automatically sent the day after every auction ends?
17) ...e-mail you within hours of the auctions ending, giving you
a combined list of all your purchases, and a combined total,
along with full payment instructions?
18) ...send you an e-mail as soon as they receive your payment,
and another e-mail as soon as your purchase ships (along with a
tracking number, if applicable)?
19) ...only send you one promotional e-mail per week (none if you
ask to never get ANY!), and NEVER sell or trade
your contact information to anyone ever?
20) ... have a 19 year track record of selling vintage movie
paper to over 30,000 movie paper collectors worldwide?
21) ... have a search of their current items that includes
directors, all of the top cast, genre, poster artist, and more,
that allows you to quickly locate items you are interested in?
22) ... have an ACCURATE sales results database of over
330,000 records that only gives you actual paid for prices (no
sales that fell through, items that were returned, items that
were renegotiated, etc.)?
23) ... have TRUE customer service, and if you are not
happy with how you are being treated, or how your order is
handled, either before, during, or after the sale, you can talk
or write to the owner of the company (Bruce!)?
If the answer to ALL of the above questions isn't yes,
then you aren't dealing with eMoviePoster.com, the world leader
in movie paper auctions, now in our 19th consecutive year of
million dollar plus sales!
Here is an e-mail we recently received from one of our 30,000+
satisfied customers:
"You guys make ME happy! I love everything about your
business. Besides the merchandise being just as described and
getting cool incentives when I win, these things would be useless
without the superb packing job you do to get it to me. I
appreciate YOU so much!" |
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Go to our "why we ship
the way we do" page to learn about the
differences between our packing and those of other sellers.
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Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware
Hershenson
Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems
Also, please read the following two pages of Consignor Reviews
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Page 1,
Page 2,
and two pages of Customer Reviews of our company
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Page 1,
Page 2,
which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from all others! |
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Postal Mailing Address: Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775.
(For our UPS or FedEx address, click here)
Our address for UPS or FedEx only is:
Bruce Hershenson,
306 Washington Avenue, West Plains, MO 65775
phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948
E-mail: Contact Us
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Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CST)
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