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Major Auctions

• WE SMASHED OUR YEARLY SALES RECORD!
• It is now time to consign to our April Major Auction!
• All three parts of our December Major Auction have ended with amazing results!
• Our "First Ever Major Mondo Print Auction" completed with $732,660.00 in sales, see all the results for this great auction HERE!
• We absolutely charge the lowest commissions of ANY major auction, at every price level

WE SMASHED OUR YEARLY SALES RECORD!

At the start of 2020 I (Bruce Hershenson) made a momentous decision. I would cut the number of auctions my company (eMoviePoster.com) runs in HALF, guaranteeing it would also cut our sales in half. But I saw it as a worthwhile trade-off, because it meant I would work half as much, and could take LOTS of vacations!

I trust you see where this is heading! The pandemic hit, and there went my vacations. And then everyone started consigning TONS of great stuff (maybe they feared I was about to retire?).

So I started working harder and harder processing all that stuff, and now the year is over, and it is fair to say I NEVER worked so hard in my entire life.

And I DID run half as many auctions, but my sales not only did NOT go down by half, but instead we set a new all-time yearly sales record (see the chart below).

WHAT DOES 2021 LOOK LIKE FOR EMOVIEPOSTER.COM? It all depends on our consignors! If they again flood us with great consignments, it MAY look a lot like 2020!

And I can't see why anyone with an excellent collection they have had for a long time would NOT STRONGLY consider consigning some or all of it to eMoviePoster.com!

We have the very best buyers we have ever had (often paying record prices), we charge the lowest commissions of ANY major auction (at every price level), and we give true customer service to every consignor (and buyer), and we have LIFETIME guarantees on all we auction!

If YOU have considered consigning to us, go to our "no fine print" Consign Page at https://www.emovieposter.com/learnmore/?page=consign and see if what we offer is right for you (as it has been for 2,700+ other consignors, over 31 years, and 98 MILLION dollars in sales)!

It is now time to consign to our April Major Auction!

It is already time to consign to our next major auction, our April Major Auction! We already have a good number of items for this auctions (ones that arrived too late for the December Major Auction).

Why consign NOW, when the auction is 12 weeks away? I am glad you asked! There are two excellent reasons for doing so. One is that those early submissions will be used in our early advertising for each auction, and it has been proven over time that the items in our early ads see increased bidding as a result.

But the second reason is more important! More and more in our Major Auctions we have been getting some of the most popular items consigned to us over and over. This means that if YOU have any of these kinds of titles, then you want to send yours early, so as to greatly improve the chances that yours will make it in.

Our "First Ever Major Mondo Print Auction" completed with $732,660.00 in sales, see all the results for this great auction HERE!

eMoviePoster.com's "First Ever Major Mondo Print Auction" (consisting of 2,346 Mondo prints from the collection of Alamo co-founder Tim League) was SUPPOSED to end 12/13. But 7,900 new bidders registered, and they ALL tried to log in exactly as the auctions started closing on the 13th, and that crashed the site.

eMoviePoster.com quickly paused all the auctions, and then extended every one by 24 hours, so that they all ended 12/14. The auctions were also expanded to 4 hours (from two), which reduced the load on the site, and many other steps were taken as well, and all 2,346 auctions ended without a problem on the 14th.

Naturally, we at eMoviePoster.com were very sorry for the site crash, and the one day delay, but as you have seen, virtually every site has had this problem (including Google, whose Gmail crashed for HOURS last week). We did the very best we could to be absolutely fair to all the bidders, and we did the best we could under the most trying of circumstances. We give out deepest apologies to those who were inconvenienced.

Many, many prints sold for record prices (see EVERY result at https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/1/date/2020-12-14/archive.html), and the overall auction took in $732,660 in sales. All the money raised goes to help the Alamo Drafthouse chain pay their employees during this most difficult time (especially hard for movie theaters, of course).

eMoviePoster.com thanks everyone who participated in this most special auction!

We absolutely charge the lowest commissions of ANY major auction, at every price level

I want to alert you to something about auction commissions that confuses many people (and this is the result of an intentional deception, a virtual "Tower of Lies"). Three different potential consignors recently told us that they had decided to auction their items elsewhere, because “the other auction's rates were so much lower than eMoviePoster.com’s”.

We asked them how they arrived at that, and they said that they were told that the 15% they were charged at the other auction was less than the 20% (or higher) that they were charged at our auction. But sadly, that is not at all true. When you factor in the Buyers Premiums that are hidden from the seller, the sellers at those other auctions pay more.

We THOUGHT "everyone" knew better than to think other auction's offered lower rates than ours, because in our ads we state “We charge the lowest consignor commissions at EVERY price level”, but obviously that has not always been true.

So we created a chart that proves it beyond a doubt, and here it is (click on it to view a larger version):

Just to make it crystal clear:
When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $12,000 for, YOU get $10,800.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges 15% seller's commission (but also has a 20% buyers premium, which is true of almost every major auction other than eMoviePoster.com), then after the buyer paid them $12,000 for it, YOU get only $8,500.

When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $1,200 for, YOU get $960.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges 15% seller's commission (but also has a 20% buyers premium, which is true of almost every major auction other than eMoviePoster.com), then after the buyer paid them $1,200 for it, YOU get only $850.

When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $600 for, YOU get $468.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges 15% seller's commission (but also has a 20% buyers premium, which is true of almost every major auction other than eMoviePoster.com), then after the buyer paid them $600 for it, YOU get only $425.

When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $120 for, YOU get $86.40.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges 15% seller's commission (but also has a 20% buyers premium, which is true of almost every major auction other than eMoviePoster.com), then after the buyer paid them $120 for it, YOU get $85 (close to what you would get with eMoviePoster.com, but still less!).

When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $20 for, YOU get $10.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges 15% seller's commission (but also has a 20% buyers premium, with a $19 minimum), then after the buyer paid them $20 for it, YOU get only 85 CENTS.

So when you compare, there is NO comparison! $10,800 or $8,500? $960 or $850? $468 or $425? $86.40 or $85? And the most outrageous of all, $10 or 85 cents?

SO HOPEFULLY THIS MAKES IT CLEAR TO EVERYONE THAT WE OFFER THE LOWEST COMMISSIONS (at every price point) OF ANY MAJOR AUCTION!