The poster game is dead

evsgjamm

Now I know this is 311 in the first image, but still....... I'm shocked to see the prices of some of these artists prints. 

What's everyones thoughts? Do you think the market is cooling? The same? Heating up? 

2-feign-reluctance

For regular edition prints I think it’s cooled.
APs and special releases not so much. A very special poster just sold for $10k here a few weeks ago. 

Loujoe

Sell now flippers!

RS65573

I think its very seasonal and when the band tours its much more active. Also the increased volume of posters created in the past 5 years posters, makes most of them worth very little.

on2legs

Maybe yes... maybe no.  More recent show prints are definitely certainly produced in big numbers.  Interesting though is that the yield print is still going for well over the original sale price and it's not even a screen print.  So maybe yes... maybe no.

Merkin Baller

I would say the market is pretty well saturated more than I would say it's dead.

This is also a good thing for anyone who's just a collector. Sure, it's always nice when something appreciates, but OTOH, fewer people flipping = more posters in the hands of people who want them at reasonable prices.  

Mattchew

2-feign-reluctance said:

For regular edition prints I think it’s cooled.
APs and special releases not so much. A very special poster just sold for $10k here a few weeks ago. 

That's a very good point.

Mattchew

RS65573 said:

I think its very seasonal and when the band tours its much more active. Also the increased volume of posters created in the past 5 years posters, makes most of them worth very little.

Very true.

CROJAM95

Consumers all over are tightening their wallets , anticipating the R word by late summer/fall

mace1229

I've been surprised what some posters go for. The highly sought after ones seem to keep going up, but the average poster from 10 years ago seems to have gone down. 
My guess has been less interest in keeping a flat file of a whole bunch of random posters in it. People want the ones they'll hang and sell the rest. Looks like even Jeff went that route!

tempo_n_groove

Anything Brian Methe sells will be cheap.  He makes multiple versions and has a small following.  The other posters you show are also over printed so everyone has one.

Look up Chuck Sperry Posters and come back and let me know if those are dead.

I've got a few that are worth some house payments.

jjflash

It depends on the band and poster artist, IMO. Has the Pearl Jam poster market cooled? Yes. Have poster markets for more active, younger-leaning demographic bands like Billy Strings and Goose heated up? Yes.

mfc2006

jjflash said:

It depends on the band and poster artist, IMO. Has the Pearl Jam poster market cooled? Yes. Have poster markets for more active, younger-leaning demographic bands like Billy Strings and Goose heated up? Yes.

facts!

andrew68

mfc2006 said:

jjflash said:

It depends on the band and poster artist, IMO. Has the Pearl Jam poster market cooled? Yes. Have poster markets for more active, younger-leaning demographic bands like Billy Strings and Goose heated up? Yes.

facts!

truth...then that younger demographic becomes aware of the history of prints....and then.  ebb and flow 

THIS IS THE WAY 

BIGDaddyWil

THIS IS THE WAY

.....except 1998 posters.

Mattchew

BIGDaddyWil said:

THIS IS THE WAY

.....except 1998 posters.

Yes sir!

JeBurkhardt

Well, if it causes the 2003 OKC poster to drop down to prices I can afford, then it wouldn't break my heart. 

Satans Red Mosquito

What print was sold for 10k?

Loujoe

Satans Red Mosquito said:

What print was sold for 10k?

Foil AP SN emek chief. That was asking price and it's gone. I assume it went for that. Lot's of cash.

evsgjamm

Sweet lew that is wild. Good insight in here though. I just listed several posters on fweebay and not one sold. I started my asks at what I thought were conservative bids. The market spoke and disagreed harrrrrrrrrd.

lastexitlondon

What are you selling