eMoviePoster.comDid you know... that this e-mail club began in June of 1998, and that there have been 1,042 club messages, and that they are searchable online, and that past messages are FILLED with valuable info found nowhere else on the Internet?Return to Did You Know Archive Added: 09/23/2024
In May of 1990 I, Bruce Hershenson, became a full-time movie poster
auctioneer, and that year I took in around two million dollars from my
movie poster auctions and my semi-annual sales catalogs.
By early 1998 I was hearing more
and more about something called "the World Wide Web" and I decided to join
it and see if there was any way to use it to enhance my auction business!
Over the next few months I began emailing with some of my customers, and
in June of 1998 (WAY before I held my first online auction or sale
of ANY kind) I decided to start a weekly email club, offering a
great deal each week to the members, and also sharing news about the
hobby, and info for newer collectors. I sent that first club message to
35 people, with an offer for the hardcover book Graven Images (which was
published at $50) for just $10 for one copy of this wonderful book!
Over the years, the club has grown and grown, and this week we have 17,093 members (not bad from those humble beginnings)! Did you know that you can view (and search) all of our 1,041 past club messages HERE: https://www.emovieposter.com/club/archive.php? Please know that the search for the club works different from that of our Auction History and Galleries in that it searches the exact phrase you type. Because of this, you may perform a search and get a large number of results. If so, then you should think of a different word or phrase to search for. If you get too few results, you should reduce the length of the phrase you are using or try searching for different keywords. We will make the search "smarter" in the future. Also note that all club messages prior to #325 were "condensed" in an effort to make it easier to access the unique information presented in each message and to eliminate the information about the current week's offerings. Messages #325 and on are presented as they were originally issued, so they will always refer to past auctions and/or events that are no longer relevant, but they also contain unique information such as news and general movie paper info that is certainly still relevant. Also in those club messages prior to #325 we had some regular features in the club (like questions and answers and collector profiles) which we "stripped out' of those messages and put on a different part of our site. One of the most valuable features of the early club messages were the many questions I published each week from club members. Back then, so MANY people were discovering movie poster collecting (and the hobby) each week through the Internet that I would receive lots of emails every week with questions about many different aspects of posters and poster collecting. Each week I would spend around 3 hours compiling all the questions that had been asked that week, and I would write out answers to each and every one of them, and publish them in the club messages. So if YOU want to learn a LOT more about posters and poster collecting, I advise you to look at the old club messages (either one by one, or by searching them) and I think you will be amazed at how much good information is contained therein. And if you find any incorrect or outdated information, let me know what that is so I can correct it! And of course, starting January 5, 2020, this formerly weekly email club become a bi-weekly email club, because on January 7th, 2020 our auctions became bi-weekly auctions! And starting July 4, 2021, this club became a monthly email club, because on July 6, 2021 our auctions became "every four week" auctions!
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