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eMoviePoster.com - The most trusted vintage original movie poster site & the only major online auction with no buyers premiums!
Consigning to eMoviePoster.com Auctions
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last updated on July 1, 2023
Learn all about consigning to eMoviePoster.com auctions here!
URGENT! As of May 1, 2023 we no longer accept
ANY consignments that have a realistic auction value of under $30 (see below).
If you are ready to consign, when you send us your items, be sure to include the
Consignor Reference Sheet (click
HERE to print it). And only
send your package AFTER you have read the below info which covers most questions!
Below you'll find:
How
Consigning Works | Schedule of Upcoming Auctions | Rates | About eMoviePoster.com | Questions &
Answers |
Consignment Checklist & Reference Sheet |
Address & Contact Info
9/28/2023, 10:18 AM Future Auctions(Dates shown are the dates
the auctions will run) | 10/3 to 10/24 | Halloween Part I - 1,356 folded one-sheets & more | | 10/5 to 10/26 | Halloween Auction - Part II | | 10/8 to 10/29 | Halloween Auction - Part III | | 10/31 to 11/21 | All flat items | | 11/2 to 11/23 | All rolled items | | 11/5 to 11/26 | Bulk lots |
Still Time to Consign
(Dates Subject to Change)| 11/28 to 12/19 | December Major Auction | | 11/30 to 12/21 | All flat items | | 12/3 to 12/24 | All rolled items | | 12/26 to 1/16/24 | All flat items | | 12/28 to 1/18/24 | All rolled items | | 12/31 to 1/21/24 | Bulk lots | | 1/23/24 to 2/13/24 | All flat items | | 1/25/24 to 2/15/24 | All rolled items | | 1/28/24 to 2/18/24 | All-signed auction | | 2/20/24 to 3/12/24 | All flat items | | 2/22/24 to 3/14/24 | All rolled items | | 2/25/24 to 3/17/24 | Bulk lots | | 3/19/24 to 4/9/24 | All flat items | | 3/21/24 to 4/11/24 | All rolled items | | 3/24/24 to 4/14/24 | April 2024 Major Auction | | 4/16/24 to 5/7/24 | All flat items | | 4/18/24 to 5/9/24 | All rolled items | | 4/21/24 to 5/12/24 | Bulk lots |
How Consigning Works
Benefits of consigning through us:
- The only work you do is getting your items
safely to us. We do everything else!
- No hidden commissions or fees, and no "fine
print". We stand by what we
say and will never mislead you.
- We NEVER buy items from you (as
almost every other auction house does) because that would put
us in direct conflict with our consignment based business, and we would be on
"the opposite side" from you, needing to buy your items for a low price. When
you consign to us, we are "on the same side" so if your items sell for more,
then you get more and we also get more. This means we are highly
motivated to get the most for your items.
- You get an audience of 67,500+ movie paper
collectors who know us (some have been buying from us for 33 years)
and who know that we always
describe everything honestly and usually send purchases out within a few
business days of
receiving payment, very securely wrapped in custom made extra-strong boxes
and tubes. This
makes bidders more likely to bid on an item we're offering than one offered by
someone unknown to them (like you!).
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Since we auction on a regular
schedule every fourth
Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday offering 2,500 to 4,500 items every four weeks,
bidders are more inclined to look over our auctions because we will probably
have something to interest them. There are many thousands of collectors
and dealers who check
our auctions every single time, and who would probably miss your item if it is
auctioned any other way, because they simply don't have the time to check out
other auction sites on a regular basis!
Are
you a good
candidate for consigning through us? Here is a checklist:
- Your items ALL need to have a realistic retail
value of at least $30 per item to be in INDIVIDUAL
auctions (you can check this in our
searchable
Auction History). This applies to ALL consignments, as
we no
longer auction
sub-$30 items in bulk
lots
(see below).
UPDATED! EFFECTIVE May 1, 2023, we no longer accept ANY consignments
of sub-$30 items (and we are phasing out "bulk lots" completely). 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!
You need to let us sell them with NO
minimum bid for each item, and accept the possibility that you may receive less
for some items than you thought they were worth. However, you will surely receive far more than any dealer would offer you for those items (and we
charge lower commissions at EVERY price level than any other major auction, and we have no "buyers premiums").
And realize that EVERY major dealer in the world follows our auctions,
and they are looking to "restock" from our auctions, so a $100 item will never
sell for a crazy low amount, because two dealers will surely bid at least $50
each if it is truly "worth" $100.
Overall, you need to trust us with your material during the
time we have it, and trust that we will honestly report how much each item sold
for (although, since they will have sold on our auction site, you will be able
to "follow along" and verify what we say). If you have any doubt about your
willingness to trust us, stop reading now!
We can say that we have paid out over 111 MILLION
dollars to just over 3,137+ people just like yourself, and we have had only a
few dissatisfied consignors (who had unrealistic expectations, or who did not read our simple terms outlined here), a record we are very
proud of!
Now we are the ONLY movie poster
auction there is where this is not that remarkable, and, because we own an
entire city block, we can easily accommodate even massive collections or large
dealer/store inventories. And of course most days we receive ten or twenty
packages sent to us by some of our 3,137+ consignors, and those don't pose a problem either!
Our Rates
We have carefully figured out how much time
and effort goes into selling an item online, from start to finish. It takes the
exact same amount of work to sell a $10 one-sheet as a $1000 one-sheet. The cost
to us of the labor and overhead required to sell each item is an absolute
minimum of $12.50 each. The vast majority of buyers pay with credit cards or PayPal,
which costs us roughly three percent of the total. Taking everything into
consideration, we have arrived at the below commission rates.
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If an item sells for: |
We receive this amount: |
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$20,000+ |
10% of the selling price |
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$15,000 to $19,999 |
12% of the selling price |
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$10,000 to 14,999 |
14% of the selling price |
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$7,500 to $9,999 |
16% of the selling price |
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$5,000 to $7,499 |
18% of the selling price |
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$1,200 to $4,999 |
20% of the selling price |
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$600 to $1,199 |
22% of the selling price |
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$400 to $599 |
24% of the selling price |
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$250 to $399 |
26% of the selling price |
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$100 to $249 |
28% of the selling price |
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$70 to $99 |
30% of the selling price |
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$50 to $69 |
35% of the selling price |
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$35 to $49 |
40% of the selling price |
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$25 to $34 |
50% of the selling price |
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$13 to $24 |
66% of the selling price |
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$1 to $12 |
75% of the selling price |
*These
rates are for what is sold in each individual auction,
NOT for your consignment as a whole.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT OUR RATES:
If you compare the above
rates to those of other major auction companies, it may appear that we charge MORE than they
do. BUT ACTUALLY, WE CHARGE LESS THAN THEY DO AT EVERY SINGLE PRICE LEVEL (see below for a chart that proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt)!
How is this true? Because they charge "buyers premiums" to every buyer (usually 20% or so), which
means that a buyer of a "$1,000" poster pays $200 more, or $1,200 in all. The seller (you) then
receives $1,000 less their commission (usually 15% to 25%), which means that you receive between
$750 and $850 on that poster that the buyer paid $1,200 for. But IN OUR AUCTIONS, when your
poster auctions for $1,200, there is no buyers premium, and you receive $1,200 less 20%, which is
$960, substantially more than the $750 to $850 you receive from any other major auction!
Note that we almost always lose
money on the sub-$30 items, because, between labor (where we have between 10
minutes and an hour of labor in every auction, depending on how many items it
contains), and we don't get enough to pay for that time for items that sell for
under $30, because in addition to our labor cost, we still have to pay all the
web hosting fees, advertising fees, and credit card fees (we'll get $4.50 for an
item that sells for $6, but we still lose money on that item! We get $8.66 for
an item that sells for $13, but we still lose money on that item! We get $15.00
for an item that sells for $30, and we probably just barely break even on that
item, which is a waste of our time!)
Therefore, WE HAVE MADE THESE RATES EXTREMELY HIGH ON THE SUB-$30 items in an
attempt to get people to stop sending them (because some people just don't know
the value of their items)! Sub-$30 items COST us money (we lose
money on almost every one) and they cost our consignors money, because having a
lot of sub-$30 items causes bidders to lose interest in bidding, and they bid
less than they do when there are very few sub-$30 items!
Remember
that we must pay all the website fees, the credit card fees, and the cost of sending the
items, and, unlike every other major auction company, WE CHARGE NO BUYERS PREMIUMS TO
OUR CUSTOMERS!
Please realize that if you were to sell these lower priced items yourself, you would probably find that you weren't
even earning minimum wage, after taking into account the amount of time you spent and the
fees you would pay. Selling items for just a few dollars each is just a waste of
everyone's time. We are looking for individuals who have items that have a
minimum realistic value of at least
$30 per item, and will trust us to be 100% honest with them.
We charge the lowest consignor commissions at EVERY price level and have a chart that proves it.
In all our ads we state
"We charge the lowest consignor commissions at EVERY price level". Here's a chart that proves it beyond a doubt!
Why did we create the above chart? Because three different potential consignors
told us that they had decided to auction their items elsewhere, because "their
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 percentage they were charged at the other auction was less than the
percentage 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
(and often FAR more than they do in our eMoviePoster.com auctions as this
chart conclusively proves)!
Just to make it crystal clear:
When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $15,000 for,
YOU get $13,200.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges
20%
seller's commission for items $1,000 or over (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
$15,000 for it, YOU get only $10,000.
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
20%
seller's commission for items
$1,000 or over (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 $800.
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
25%
seller's commission for items
under $1,000 (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 $375.
When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $100 for,
YOU get $72.00.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges
25%
seller's commission for items
under $1,000 (but also has a 20% buyers premium, with a $29 minimum),
then after the buyer paid them $100 for it,
YOU only get $53.
When you consign a poster to eMoviePoster.com that the buyer pays $30 for,
YOU get $15.
If you had instead consigned that poster to an auction that "only" charges
25%
seller's commission for items
under $1,000 (but also has a 20% buyers premium, with a $29 minimum),
then after the buyer paid them $30 for it,
YOU get only 75 CENTS.
So when you compare, there is NO
comparison! $13,200 or $10,000? $960 or $800? $468 or $375? $72 or $53?
And the most outrageous of all, 15 DOLLARS or 75 cents?
About eMoviePoster.com
Since 1989, Bruce Hershenson has organized 19 major movie poster auctions (10
for Christie's auction house, 3 for Howard Lowery auction house, and 6
mega-auctions held on eBay on specific days in 2001-2004) with total sales of
over 10 million dollars! Between 1989 and 1999 he sold over 30,000 vintage movie
posters and lobby cards through sales catalogs with sales of over 4 million
dollars. In 2000, Bruce switched to auctioning solely on the Internet and
between 2000 and 2008 held over 330,000 auctions on the eBay auction site, and
since 2008 has held over 1.88 million auctions on his own auction site,
eMoviePoster.com, with total sales of $111,000,000 (averaging over $5 million a
year for the last 12 years, and over $6 million every year the past 3 years!). Bruce has
also published 42 full-color movie poster books that have combined sales of over
300,000 copies! Having seen how many auction houses operate first hand, Bruce
Hershenson started eMoviePoster.com with the philosophy that auctions should be
run with honesty and integrity both with our bidders AND with our
consignors. If you've never dealt with us before, once you do, you will quickly
find that everything we say is true!
UPDATE 5/1/2023:
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, we no longer accept ANY consignments of sub-$30 items
(and we are phasing out "bulk lots" completely). Eight months ago we
announced that the minimum realistic retail value for individual items at
auction was raised to $30.
Why? Two main reasons. First, as with so many other businesses nowadays,
EVERY single cost we have keeps rising and rising and rising (seemingly with
no end in sight), but most importantly shipping costs. Given all this, it just
doesn't make sense for us to be auctioning $5, $10, or even $20 items
individually, because when we add up all our costs, we lose money doing so.
Second, and just as important, auctioning low value items (especially bulk
lots) takes up tons of time, and after doing this 33 years non-stop, I want to
"slow down" just a little! I THOUGHT that going to "every four week"
auctions from weekly auctions would accomplish that, but actually we are now
just as busy as ever! I see that the answer is to completely stop auctioning low
value (sub $30) items completely, EVEN IN BULK LOTS. That will allow us
to get back to 1,000 or even 500 items in each set of auctions, and will slow
our pace down considerably.
And when you think about it, taking inflation into account, having a $30
minimum for consignments is NOT "setting the bar very high"! Back in 1970
the minimum wage was $1.60 an hour. And now it is mostly at least ten times
that! So having a "$30 minimum for consignments" in 2023 is like having had a "THREE
DOLLAR minimum for consignments" in 1970!
And for those of you who love super low priced items, know that we will
continue auctioning what was already consigned here, and we have a fair number
of $10 and $20 single auction items here, and those will keep popping up in our
auctions until they are all sold. And for those of you who love BULK LOTS,
know that we will continue auctioning the bulk lot items that are already
consigned here, and we have enough of those items here to continue holding bulk
lot auctions through the end of this year (or until they are all sold).
BUT REMEMBER, WE DON'T WANT ANY NEW CONSIGNMENTS OF
SUB-$30 ITEMS AT ALL (except under VERY special circumstances;
contact us if you think this applies to you!).
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! WE WANT TO BUILD AN EMOVIEPOSTER.COM THAT CAN KEEP
BEING THE BEST AUCTION HOUSE THERE IS FOR YEARS TO COME!
Questions and Answers
Q: What if
you have posters that are worth UNDER $30 dollars each
(either solely such posters, or in addition to "better" posters),
and you simply want to get rid of them?
A: We USED to create "bulk lots" out of your "lesser" items, but
we no longer do so (see above for why). Low value items usually account for a
tiny percentage of the value of a collection. They tend to be far more trouble
than they are worth. Consider donating them, selling them as a lot on Facebook,
etc, but DON'T send them to us!
Q: How long will it take to get your
items sold?
A: In our "every four week" auctions we run
almost every type of item every four weeks (a very few types only are auctioned
every eight weeks, and linenbacked posters are auctioned four times a year).
However, tightly rolled posters need to be "flattened" under weight for 2 to 3 months before we can auction them.
If you send any, it will take at least this time for them to reach auction, so don't send them unless you have that time!
We really do auction 95% of what we are sent within a
few months!
It is ONLY the VERY "oddball" items (or tightly rolled posters which need to flatten) that take a very long time to get
auctioned.
Q: When will you be paid?
A: We always pay at the end of the month following the month in which items
are sold. For example, if your items sell in July, we will pay you at the
end of August. Why is this? After the auctions close, it can
take several weeks to collect payment from all the buyers. Once the items
have been shipped, we need a couple more weeks to be sure the buyers are pleased
with their purchases and will not be returning any (but know that returns happen less than 1%
of the time). Given our payment schedule, we will be paying you between 30
and 59 days from the time your auctions close. In the event that an item
hasn't been paid for yet, we will list it on your payment statement as "Payment
Pending or to be Relisted". If it is paid for, it will appear on a
future statement. If it isn't, we will block the bidder who didn't pay (so
he/she can't do it again), and we will re-auction the item. Also, know that if your payment is less
than $20, we will hold it until it totals more than $20 which saves you and us both time. Of course,
you can request us to make the payment anyway by contacting us.
Q: What will your payment statement
show?
A: It will have a detailed accounting of every single item we sold for
you in that month, what it sold for, when it sold, and what our commission was.
The end of the statement shows a summary of what you received and what we
received for our commissions.
Q:
What can you expect
once you've sent your items to us?
Q: What if
you're not 100% certain that you want to send your items?
A: We do not want you to send your items if you do not trust us.
But of course, you can start by sending a sample group of 20 or so items to see how they do, and then decide from there
how you feel about our service. We are 100% sure that we will get you far more money for your items than
you would get by selling them to any dealer, or consigning them to any other auction company,
and if you sell them yourself, you will AT BEST get around what you would have gotten from
us after our commissions, but you will have done a LOT of work!
Q: How should you pack your items?
A:
Be sure to pack your items securely and in
sturdy packages! We are very sad when we see consignments that got damaged
in transit to us due to poor packing. Always be sure items do not "shift"
within your package when you shake it strongly. You can be sure that the
packages you send to us will be treated far rougher by USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL.
Here are some visual examples. Additionally, we've created a "Secure
Packaging Guide" to help you pack your consignments in a more sturdy
way.
Q: Should you
send "framed" posters? NO! NEVER!
A: Whenever people have shipped us posters that are framed, the frames
often arrive broken which usually results in damage to the poster.
Therefore, we ask that you NEVER send a framed poster through the mail.
Instead, remove the poster from the frame and send the poster by itself.
Additionally, we don't sell or return the frames, so there is no benefit to
sending the frame to us.
Q: Can you use your consignment proceeds to pay for purchases? Yes!
A: A LOT of our consignors do this, and it is absolutely fine to do (and it can save you and
us both money on credit card transaction fees!). If you want to do this, just
e-mail us
(or reply to your winning bid emails) and we will do it. You can also select this payment preference when you fill out your
Consignor Reference Sheet. You can
learn more here.
Q: Is it OK for consignors to bid on
their own items for
any reason (like because they are currently selling for a very low price with just a short
time to go)?
A: Absolutely "NO" under
ANY circumstances. These are NO
RESERVE auctions, and consignors are not allowed to bid on their own items.
If we discover that you bid on your own items, we will return your consignments
to you and no longer accept future consignments. You have to be able to accept
the "no reserve" aspect of our auctions, or you can't consign. While the vast
majority of items end up selling for between half of a reasonable retail and
twice a reasonable retail, there are always a few items that sell for far under
what you would expect they would,
and if you can't live with that uncertainty,
then you can't consign to us.
Q: Do I need to send eMoviePoster.com a
printed or emailed list?
A:
Nope! A list is solely for your benefit. Once the items arrive here, we enter them into our system in our own way, and don't refer to those lists at all. So you
can save a great deal of time if you do not make such a list, but of course, it is entirely up to you whether you do. That being said, if you already
have a list, you are welcome to include it.
Q: What if you
have more questions?
A: We are happy to
answer any questions you may have. You may
e-mail us
or call us at 417-256-9616 Monday to Friday 8:30 AM CST to 5 PM CST (but not 12 to 1 CST when we
take lunch) to discuss your consignments.
And we are the ONLY auction house
there is where you can ALWAYS call up and ask to speak to the owner (Bruce!) and
he will either take your call, or if he is not available, he will call you back.
Try that with any other auction (or large business, for that matter)!
Consignment
Checklist & Reference Sheet
Consignment Checklist:
TIME-SAVING IDEA!
Print out the "Consignor Reference Sheet", fill it
out, and print several of them, and include a copy inside each of your packages. This short form makes processing
of your consignments much faster for us. This insures that we have all the
information we need.
Click
HERE to print out the
Consignor Reference Sheet
Address & Contact Info
E-Mail:
Contact Form
Phone: 417 256-9616
Fax: 417 257-6948
Our hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM and
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Central Standard Time). We are closed from 12 to 1 for
lunch.
Our address
for Post Office only is:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Consignments
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775
Our address for UPS or FedEx only is:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Consignments
306 Washington Avenue
West Plains, MO 65775
WHEN SENDING CONSIGNMENTS, PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE
CONSIGNOR REFERENCE SHEET WHICH ASKS FOR: your name, phone number, mailing address, e-mail address,
and consignment preferences.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Bruce Hershenson and the other 25 members of the eMoviePoster.com team
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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
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT)
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