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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
This page last updated on December 13th,
2019
Learn all about consigning to eMoviePoster.com auctions here!
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!
Have "better" items to consign to our major auctions?
We will have six of them in 2020!
Go HERE for details
about upcoming major auctions
and the deadline to consign to them.
Below you'll find:
How
Consigning Works | Schedule of Upcoming Auctions | Rates | About eMoviePoster.com | Questions &
Answers |
Consignment Checklist & Reference Sheet |
Address & Contact Info
Future Auctions(Dates shown are the dates
the auctions will run) | 1/19 to 2/2 | 1,551 3sh, 6sh, non-U.S., WCs | | 1/21 to 2/4 | Sets of lobby cards and sets of stills | | 1/24 to 2/7 | Rolled one-sheets, non-U.S, and special posters | | 2/2 to 2/16 | Folded one-sheets & folded non-U.S. & non-U.S. lobbies | | 2/4 to 2/18 | Single lobby cards and single stills | | 2/7 to 2/21 | Bulk lots | | 2/16 to 3/2 | Inserts, half-sheets, and small rolled non-U.S. posters | | 2/18 to 3/4 | Signed items | | 2/21 to 3/7 | "oversized" items that ship in flat packages, boxes, or tubes |
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 50,000+ movie
paper collectors who know us (many have been buying from us for 29 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!).
- Since we auction on a regular schedule every
Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday offering 2,000 to 3,000 items every week, bidders
are more inclined to look
over our auctions because we will probably have something to interest them.
There are thousands of people 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 need to have a realistic retail
value of at least $20 per item (you can check this in our
searchable
Auction History) OR you need to be willing to let us auction sub-$20 items in bulk
lots.
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UPDATED! We are trying to stop auctioning items with little value, even in bulk
lots. If consignors send items that are virtually worthless, we will either return them to the consignors at their expense, or more reasonably, throw
them out. IN ADDITION, CONSIGNMENTS NEED TO EITHER SOLELY CONTAIN ITEMS WITH
REALISTIC RETAILS OF $20 OR MORE EACH, OR A TOTAL REALISTIC RETAIL VALUE OF
$200, so do not send consignments with a value of under $200 unless all the
items are over $20 each.
- UPDATED! Rolled posters from lesser titles
from the past 30 years are not worth auctioning individually OR in bulk
lots! There just aren't people who want them, even for very little money,
SO DO NOT SEND LESSER ROLLED ONE SHEETS TO US TO AUCTION, BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO
IT
- We will accept "better" rolled one-sheets from the
past 30 years, but if they are tightly rolled, then they need to be "flattened" under weight for 2 to 3 months before we can auction them. If you send any
"better" rolled one-sheets,
it will take at least this time for them to reach auction, so don't send them unless you have that time!
- UPDATED! "Better" 8x10 vintage stills are fine
to consign, and if they have a realistic value of $20 each (as singles or
sets) they will be auctioned individually; but if they are "lesser" 8x10
vintage stills, then we DON'T want them at all because there just
aren't people who want them, even for very little money
- UPDATED! You CAN send repros of quality
stills, but ONLY if they are NOT mixed in with originals, and
ONLY if we can auction them in bulk lots, because we don't auction repro
stills individually
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You need to be willing to send them to us and trust us with
them (but know that we have done nothing but auction movie posters for the past
29 years, and that we have a 35,000 square foot warehouse that fills an entire
city block, and we are not going
anywhere!).
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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").
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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 well over 94 million dollars to over 2,500 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 of course the above cartoon is an exaggeration, but not by as much as you might
imagine! Several trucks (some driven by our employees and some by our consignors) have pulled into
our warehouse FILLED with entire collections from dealers and collectors who had decided to consign
everything they had to us. We usually have a truck arrive every month or two, and we actually had a few times when two different trucks arrived on the
same day!
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 these kinds of massive
collections. And of course most days we receive ten or twenty packages sent to us by some of our
over 2,500 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 $9 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.
| Items selling for: |
We receive this amount: |
| $10,000+ |
10% of the selling price |
| $1000 to $9,999 |
20% of the selling price |
| $500 to $999 |
22% of the selling price |
| $400 to $499 |
24% of the selling price |
| $300 to $399 |
26% of the selling price |
| $100 to $299 |
28% of the selling price |
| $ 70 to $ 99 |
30% of the selling price |
| $ 40 to $ 69 |
35% of the selling price |
| $ 30 to $ 39 |
40% of the selling price |
| $ 20 to $ 29 |
50% of the selling price |
| $ 12 to $ 19 |
60% of the selling price |
| $ 8 to $ 11 |
66% of the selling price |
| $ 1 to $ 7 |
75% of the selling price |
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*The rates are
for each individual item sold, not for your consignment as a whole. Also,
a "bulk lot" is considered a single item, so if a lot of 50 posters sells for
$100, the rate you pay will be 28% for one item, not 75% for each individual
item.
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!
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-$20 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 $20, 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 $7.20 for an item that
sells for $12, but we still lose money on that item! We get $10 for an item that
sells for $20, 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-$20 items in an attempt
to get people to stop sending them for individual sale (but while we gladly accept
such items as "bulk lots", you still have to use common sense; don't send us 100
low value items in lesser condition, because
no one will want them at any price, even $1)! Sub-$20 items COST us money (we lose money on almost every one)
and they cost our consignors money, because having a lot of sub-$20 items causes bidders to lose interest
in bidding, and they bid less than they do when there are very few sub-$20 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
$15 per item (or who are willing to let us group less valuable items into "bulk
lots"), 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 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
(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 $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?
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 1.3 million auctions on his own auction site, eMoviePoster.com, with total sales of $78,011,140 (averaging
over $5
million a year from 2013 to present!). 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!
Questions and Answers
Q: What if you have posters that are only worth a few dollars each
(either solely such posters, or in addition to "better" posters),
and you simply want to get rid of them?
A: We can create "bulk lots" of your "lesser" items (UNLESS they
are low value newer rolled posters or low value 8x10 stills; see above) and auction them for
you that way. You won't get that much money for the posters, but you will get
more than you could selling them any other way, and there is no effort on your
part. Plus, let's say we sold 100 items for you for $1 each individually. You would
receive $25 after our commissions. However, if they are sold as a "lot of 100"
items and still sell for $100, then you would receive $72 due to the far better commission rate. Note that you still have to use common sense; don't
send us 100 low value items in lesser condition, because no one will want them at any price, even $1.
UPDATE 12/13/2019: Rolled posters
from lesser titles from the past 30 years are not worth auctioning individually
OR in bulk lots! There just aren't people who want them, even for very
little money, SO DO NOT SEND LESSER ROLLED ONE SHEETS TO US TO AUCTION,
BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO IT.
UPDATE 12/13/2019:
"Better" 8x10 vintage stills are fine to consign, and if they have a realistic
value of $20 each (as singles or sets) they will be auctioned individually; but
if they are "lesser" 8x10 vintage stills, then we DON'T want them at all
because there just aren't people who want them, even for very little money.
UPDATE 12/13/2019: You
CAN send repros of quality stills, but ONLY if they are NOT
mixed in with originals, and ONLY if we can auction them in bulk lots,
because we don't auction repro stills individually.
UPDATE 12/13/2019: We are trying to stop auctioning items with
little value, even in bulk
lots. If consignors send items that are virtually worthless, we will either return them to the consignors at their expense, or more reasonably, throw
them out. IN ADDITION, CONSIGNMENTS NEED TO EITHER SOLELY CONTAIN ITEMS WITH
REALISTIC RETAILS OF $20 OR MORE EACH, OR A TOTAL REALISTIC RETAIL VALUE OF
$200, so do not send consignments with a value of under $200 unless all the
items are over $20 each. Please click to Learn More.
Q: How long will it take to get your
items sold?
A: We run a cycle of auctions every 2 to 3
months based on what has been consigned to us. This means that some items
(such as folded one-sheets) will be auctioned relatively quickly while others may take
several months to auction. In addition, posters that are not "standard"
sizes (such as banners, special sizes, non-movie posters, sheet music, etc) will
only be auctioned one to a few times a year. In addition, 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!
THEREFORE, PLEASE DO NOT
SEND THESE TYPES OF ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THAT IT MAY TAKE US 6 MONTHS, A YEAR, OR MORE
TO AUCTION THEM. But we really do auction 95% of what we are sent within a
few months! It is the "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?
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We will notify you via e-mail when your consignments arrive (it may take a few days as we often receive dozens to hundreds of
packages a week).
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We will begin preparing them for auction
soon thereafter.
NOTE: They will likely be auctioned when we next sell those sizes, UNLESS
it is one of the items that we have one or more examples of the exact same item
already consigned to us.
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We will notify you via e-mail when items of yours are put up for auction.
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One week later, we will notify you via e-mail of the results of your items.
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On the last day of the month after the month in which your items sold, we will pay you by check sent by U.S. mail (unless you have made other
arrangements such as payment by PayPal or bank wire).
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!!
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 list? 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.
Consignment
Checklist & Reference Sheet
Consignment Checklist:
TIME-SAVING IDEA!
Print out the "Consignor Reference Sheet", fill it
out, and include it inside your package. 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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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:
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306 Washington Avenue, West Plains, MO 65775
phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948
E-mail: Contact Us
Hours of Operation:
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