eMoviePoster.com

Every major auction company (EXCEPT eMoviePoster.com) ONLY wants you to consign your "premium" items, those that sell in the hundreds of dollars each. One even has a truly insane $5,000 minimum consignment value (they literally say they will turn you away if you "only" have one $4,000 item or four $1,000 items)!

But we at eMoviePoster.com will take ALL you have, even including very low value items (even ones that might auction for next-to-nothing, as proven by our auctioning over ten thousand items for just $1, $2, or $3 each, year in and year out). The ONLY requirement we have put on such low value items is that you HAVE to allow us to put the ones we feel certain will sell for very little into "bulk lots" (and once a month we have an auction of hundreds of bulk lots, that contain at least ten thousand items each time).

Generally this has worked out really well. We absolutely lose money on EVERY item we auction for nine dollars each or under, but it allows our consignors to sell everything they have in one easy transaction, and it lets our buyers get some really low priced items, so everybody ends up happy (and we too end up happy, because along with all those very low priced items we also get consigned enough much higher priced items that we end up making money overall).

But lately, we have had people taking us TOO literally when we say we will sell all you have, because sometimes we get some consignment packages that are almost completely worthless! Now I know full well that in the vast majority of these cases the consignors are hoping that "one man's trash is someone else's treasure", but far more often the sad truth is that often "one man's trash" is sometimes "EVERY man's trash"!

I am not talking about cases where there is any doubt! Consider that one person sent us several hundred newer rolled one-sheets, where the theater had put them to a wall with pieces of duct tape, and after using them, they had folded them up, causing the fronts of many posters to stick together. These posters had absolutely NO value at all, and it cost the person a good amount of money to send them to us, when he should have just carried them out to the dumpster.

Or consider the person who sent us a few boxes of old Entertainment Weekly's that had gotten somewhat dirty and moldy. Or the person who sent us a box of folded one-sheets where the posters had gotten wet and you could not fully open any of them.

If you have considered consigning, and you have ANY thought that your items might have value, it is fine to go ahead and send them. But if you know in your heart that some of those items have no value at all (like the examples we gave above) but you hate the idea of throwing them out, please reconsider, because you will be doing yourself and us a favor by throwing them out!

But PLEASE don't take this too far! I have several times had the heartbreaking experience where someone has sent me 1920s or 1930s movie posters or lobby cards where they commented that "they threw away the ones that had gotten dirty". These days, restorers can rescue some incredibly damaged items (but this doesn't work with low value damaged items, because the cost of restoration is usually far more than the post-restoration value of the items).