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the wait though is your choice. It's almost like I remember a guy who
used to go to cons and add up his food and his taxes, tips etc and
pass that onto the customer. There are times when you could wait 5
minutes and times when you are going to wait 15 hours. Does that then
mean you are going to sell the one item you waited 5 minutes for for
20 bucks? I don't think so.... wait time is something you do. It's
like if a store has problems getting say the Nintendo WII and the wait
is many weeks long. Does that mean the stores will sell it for higher
price? No. There may be black market ones out there for higher, but
a real buisness factors all that stuff in. you dollar cost average.
Many times I've waited hours for people and gave stuff away or sold
for at cost if I had an extra one. I've been selling things for what
value is that I paid and doubling it so that at least I get my items
free or some of my fees back, but really the wait is all me wanting to
do the damned thing in the first place. I don't charge people for
that. Though if this is your ONLY job, I guess you can't wait 15
hours for one B list celeb to sign one thing. That just doesn't make
sense business-wise. You gotta be smart aobut the whole thing.
On Wed, 7 May 2008 07:11:32 -0700 (PDT), barefoot
wrote:
>well, i am sorry gummby...i don't pay attention to the names that say
>stuff sometimes, and my usenet thing doesn't allow me to re read the
>older posts to quote properly, or i would...i do apologize for that
>one.
>maybe you are right. in fact, i'll say this and sue has hit the nail
>right on the head...
>today's stars, even if they are tough, do sign a lot more than actors
>of yesteryear.
>with private signings and a lot more people collecting autographs,
>autographs are more abundant.
>tom brady did that signing, and it was limited to like 2000
>autographs...maybe less...and althought he doesn't sign for free, 2000
>autographs may be way more available (even at that ridiculous
>price)...i'll bet there aren't even 2000 y.a. tittle autographs
>available in the whole market.
>same can be said for ford...if i have a lot, and he did a few private
>signings for official pix and that master replica's company...there
>are probably a lot more ford autographs than say lawrence olivier's or
>marlon brando on the market alone (this is not even putting into
>account the forgeries). people didn't carry around photos to get
>signed or anything...and the liklihood of a studio signing are higher
>back then, then they are now.
>
>but i will say this gummby...it's that rational of saying that people
>living and breathing aren't worth that money...it's why people are
>buying forgeries without knowing what they are getting in to. harrison
>ford, if he's willing to sign on set, tells you to wait to the end of
>the day...so you can sit ALL DAY..and if his autograph isn't worth
>$100 or more, then you wasted your whole day...if you aren't making
>$100 a day at your job, you don't have a good job.
>maybe $300 is a lot of money. but autograph collecting isn't an easy
>job... i tell people everyday that i have to make my money TWICE...i
>have to get the autographs AND THEN i have to sell them. it's not like
>going to an office job and then just getting a paycheck...
>i bought $1000 guitars to get signed by metallica recently (they were
>$1000 ea as they were the esp models that the guys endorse), and i had
>to wait at the in store signing for over 15 hours in a parking lot
>waiting for the signing...you don't think it's worth it to sell the
>guitars for $3000 ea (as i have already done)?
>mike
>
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