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About eMoviePoster.com:

In the past 32 years, we have auctioned MORE movie paper for MORE money than ANY other auction company, period!

EVERY item we auction starts at $1, with NO reserve, and NO buyers premium, and EVERY item is honestly described, with an unenhanced super-sized image!

We charge consignors the lowest rates of ANY major auction, and we have held over 1,834,000 online auctions!

Go to our current auctions in our Auction Galleries, and you will quickly see why we are the most trusted auction site!

eMoviePoster.com was founded in 1999 as the first all-movie poster auction website. We have auctioned well over 1.8 MILLION posters (movie and NON-movie), lobby cards, stills and related items through our auctions since 1999, surely the most of any online auction!

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eMoviePoster.com - The most trusted vintage original movie poster site & the only major online auction with no buyers premiums!

Did you know... that you can still buy LOTS of $1 movie posters (and $2, $3, etc) at eMoviePoster.com, and we have the facts to prove that?

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Added: 01/07/2019

The world no longer needs "a five cent cigar", but it DOES need one dollar movie posters, and fortunately lots of those can still be found in our 140,000 annual auctions!

But in fact, "everybody" is wrong, at least when it comes to OUR auctions! It IS true in many other so-called "$1, No Reserve" auctions, where you quickly learn that there is fine print that puts a MASSIVE minimum $19 buyers premium on all purchases, so that "$1, No Reserve" poster ends up costing you TWENTY DOLLARS (and sometimes there are exorbitant shipping costs as well, so a $1 purchase can end up costing you $35 or much more), and some auctions don’t like to combine purchases, and some even charge surcharges on card payments. We started our auction company because we knew there had to be a better way!

In OUR auctions (at www.eMoviePoster.com), we have NO buyers premiums at all, so a $1 poster is REALLY a $1 poster (and in many of our auctions, you can pay a single shipping charge no matter how many items you purchase from that set of auctions)! But are there really many items that sell for just a few dollars each? Here are the hard cold facts! In 2018 alone we held a grand total of 139,984 auctions. Of those:

8310 items sold for exactly $1
11861 items sold for $2 or less
17456 items sold for $3 or less
23815 items sold for $4 or less
29202 items sold for $5 or less
35742 items sold for $6 or less
41480 items sold for $7 or less
46540 items sold for $8 or less
52073 items sold for $9 or less
55726 items sold for $10 or less
56879 items sold for $11 or less
61791 items sold for $12 or less
66705 items sold for $13 or less
71048 items sold for $14 or less
73695 items sold for $15 or less
75699 items sold for $16 or less
78938 items sold for $17 or less
81761 items sold for $18 or less
83467 items sold for $19 or less
or 60%  of our total 2018 sales

That means that over 83,000 of the 139,984 auctions we held in 2018 ended at under $20 each! We know that in those auctions with the $19 buyers premiums, they did not have even ONE auction end at under $20, because even when an auction ends at just $1 in their auctions, the $19 buyers premium brings it to $20, so EVERY auction they hold costs the buyer at least $20, plus shipping.

Doesn't it make sense to spend your money where it goes the absolute furthest? We only charge the actual cost of shipping (often far less, when a buyer buys multiple items). Every week, we auction around 3,000 items in our Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday auctions combined, and it is a certainty that some fair percentage of them sell for "bargain" prices in every set of auctions, and there are often some absolute "steals"!

Of course, we also sell LOTS of high quality movie paper, and OUR sales results are 100% accurate (you don’t see items coming back to auction over and over). In 2018 alone, we auctioned 9,947 items for over $100, and we auctioned 352 items for $1,000 or more, and every one of those items had accurate condition descriptions!

Our total sales for 2018 were $5,594,155 (which means we have averaged five million in sales per year the past seven years), and we have now held over 1,531,000 auctions in all! Our total sales have substantially risen over the 28 years we have been auctioning movie paper, while most other auctions keep seeing steadily declining total sales, and eBay, once the foremost place to auction vintage movie posters, has virtually totally imploded!

"MISSED IT THAT MUCH"

As noted above, we had another blockbuster year in 2018, with $5,594,155.00 in sales. But we came unbelievably close to topping our all-time sales record (set in 2017) of $5,596,923.00. This truly IS a case of "missing it by THAT much", as seen in the chart below:

http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/dyk/20190102_saleschart.png

Of course, $2,768 out of $5.6 MILLION is statistically insignificant, and since last year's total shattered our previous year's best by around $400,000, we are still very, very proud of this result.

So whether you are looking for great bargains, or the finest movie paper, or anything in-between, remember that we have auctioned more original vintage movie posters for more money than everyone else in the entire world (considering only “real” sales), and we have done so for 28 years, and we are the only auction anywhere with a lifetime guarantee. We have honest unenhanced images of all we auction and we give true customer service!


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Also, please read the following two pages of Consignor Reviews - Page 1, Page 2, and two pages of Customer Reviews of our company - 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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Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. 
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