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Do Others here have White Whales sitting in an E-Bay Virtual Store for Eons at the same price?

thedutymon11thedutymon11 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭✭
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Afternoon,

So one of my other areas of collecting besides Non Sport Cards, Rare 1st Science Fiction Hardback Editions, Sports Cards, Comics, and numerous others, is 1950-1989 Horror and SCI-FI Movie Original Lobby Posters 41" X 27".

Now I have a White Whale Lobby Poster that I have lusted after for 20 years and it has eluded me all this time. it is the 1962 Herk Harvey directed "Carnival of Souls". Now it was never a very successful or even that good of a Movie, but it means something to me. When I was 7-8 years old in Sacramento there was a Friday night Fright Movie thing on TV. Now this was over my Mothers strenuous objections, because the Movies would cause me great emotional problems watching that crap, later in life! :):) And she was right, that Movie even to today gives me the Willies when I watch it, and I own it.

"Carnival of Souls", as with most Grade B & C 1950-1990 Horror Movies Posters should range in the $10-$300 range.

So there were three Monumental Movies during that time frame that defined this time with my Dad for me! "Them" (Poster cost $25-50K today, so not happening), "Tarantula" (Poster cost $20-50K today, so not happening) as is befitting two of the more successful 50/60's Horror Monster Movies. The 3rd, "Carnival of Souls", as with most Grade B & C 1950-1990 Horror Movies Posters should range in the $10-$300 range.

There are currently 4 Copies of the Carnival of Souls Poster around the Internet, two on Feebay, one $5K, the one I want at $1500, and 2 Beaters for several Hundreds of Dollars on other sites.

A few Examples I of what I have and what I paid:

Alien $175 (Seller was Asking $300)
Day of the Triffids (1960) $400 (Asking $1000)
Phantasm $200 (Asking $225)
April Fools Day $75 (Asking $100)
One Million Years BC $1000 (Raquel Welch, 1966, and NMT-MT condition.) (Asking $2500)
Don't F*** In The Woods $200 (Real Movie, Poster print run only 200, Has it all, Blood, Gore, Monster and T & A) (Asking $200)

So anyway on to my story, there is a Poster Seller here where I moved 3 years ago in Phoenix. 5-6 years ago I notice he listed a Carnival of Souls Poster for $1500. I contacted him a couple of times while in Colorado but he wouldn't budge or deal, so I just continued to leave it in my Watch list.

FF 2-3 years, I moved to Phoenix and had known he was located here in Phoenix, so I contacted him and we started negotiations again, (Me Negotiating, him not so much!). so finally I say to him, Ok I am highly interested but would like to see the Poster. He informs me that this would not be possible as he has a 30,000 SQ Ft Warehouse and only pulls Posters to ship after Sold. He does not do showings. And the Scan is on E-Bay! Needless to Say I politely told him to pound Sand and when it doesn't Sell in another year, contact me! (I'm sure if I called and wanted to see the 1934 Creature From The Black Lagoon Poster $500K, seeing it would be possible!)

So long story short Today, 3 years since I moved to Phoenix, that Poster is still in my Watch List at $1500, and in 6 years nobody else has watched this but me!

Thats my rant!!!

YeeHah!

Neil

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