eMoviePoster.com

Over the past 33 years, we at eMoviePoster.com have been at the forefront of the evolution of the poster (and related collectibles) hobbies constantly improving and evolving. For example:
1989: Bruce Hershenson forms "Bruce Hershenson Vintage Movie Posters", to provide a place for collectors and dealers to sell their collections and inventories
1990: Bruce Hershenson organizes the first ever "all-movie poster" auction by a major auction house, and it takes in just under one million dollars, "waking up" a very sleepy hobby!
1993: Bruce Hershenson continues to hold annual major auctions, but adds semi-annual sales lists, with thousands of items that have fixed prices, and DECREASE in price just days after the lists are fully distributed!
1998: Bruce Hershenson moves his major annual auctions to a partnership with Howard Lowery Auctions in California!
1999: Bruce Hershenson sees the potential of the new "internet" in auctioning movie posters and starts weekly Tuesday sets of auctions on eBay, replacing his semi-annual sales lists!
2001: Bruce Hershenson sees how much of the poster hobby has followed him onto eBay, and he moves his major auctions there as well!
2006: After 330,000 eBay auctions, Bruce Hershenson starts his own website, eMoviePoster.com, and the vast majority of his eBay customers follow him there, and within a couple of years, eMoviePoster.com is auctioning more vintage movie paper than all of eBay combined!
2007: With the great success of eMoviePoster.com Tuesday weekly auctions, Bruce Hershenson adds Thursday weekly auctions as well!
2009: With the great success of Tuesday and Thursday weekly auctions, Bruce Hershenson adds Sunday weekly auctions as well!
2020: At the very start of the year, Bruce Hershenson shifts from thrice-weekly eMoviePoster.com auctions, to three sets of eMoviePoster.com auctions every OTHER week and total annual sales INCREASE!
2021: Halfway through the year, Bruce Hershenson shifts from three sets of eMoviePoster.com auctions every OTHER week to three sets every FOUR weeks and total annual sales again INCREASE!
2023 (about to happen!): The minimum realistic retail value for individual items at auction will be raised to $30, and the individual realistic retail value for bulk items at auction will be raised to $30 per bulk lot!

WHY are we making this change (which we actually have started enforcing midway through 2022, so that consignors have a good amount of time to get used to this change)? It is because, in today's world, with ever-rising costs of shipping, packaging, and everything else under the sun, it just doesn't make sense for us to continue to individually auction items that sell for $5, $10, $20, or ever $25. We just don't make any profit on most of those items, and in fact, especially on large bulk lots, we lose money auctioning them if they end up selling for under $30 for the lot.

THIS CHANGE MEANS WE WILL HAVE FEWER, BUT BETTER, AUCTIONS (since every individual item is one that deserves to sell for $30 or more) AND THAT MEANS BIDDERS WILL NOT "LOSE INTEREST", AND WILL HAVE THE TIME AND WILLINGNESS TO LOOK OVER EVERY ITEM!

AND THERE IS ONE OTHER EVEN MORE IMPORTANT CHANGE! In the past, we let consignors send us giant "jumbles" of unsorted items of every kind, and WE had to spend a huge amount of time and effort getting them sorted out, divided into single sale and bulk lot items, and get them prepared for auction. That possibly made sense in a world where shipping prices were very low, and where we could hire lots of high school kids to do sorting.

But neither of those are still true, so effective immediately, it is up to CONSIGNORS to sort out their items and separate the single sale items from the bulk ones, and divide them all by country, size, type, etc.

Will this result in fewer consignments? Maybe so, but we still provide the very best auction service, charge far and away the lowest fees (at every price level), and deliver the best prices overall (when you compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges), so we think MOST consignors will see the value to still consign to us, even though they now have to sort their items better.

And PLEASE! We don't want bottom of the barrel items, (like ones in terrible condition, ones that nobody wants, etc) AT ALL! But since some people can't tell what these are, we will still (for now) allow consignors to send them, but ONLY if they give us the OK to trash items of no value.

WE WANT TO BUILD AN EMOVIEPOSTER.COM THAT CAN KEEP BEING THESE BEST AUCTION HOUSE THERE IS FOR YEARS TO COME, AND IT IS ONLY THROUGH MAKING THE ABOVE CHANGES THAT WE CAN DO SO. IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF EVERY COLLECTOR AND CONSIGNOR FOR THAT TO HAPPEN! THANKS FOR BEING UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEED FOR THESE CHANGES.