Why are posters so valuable?

stevehomeair

I really do not get it....I have forty and am willing to part with all but about 15 the ones i bought from the fan club...NO RESALE!!!!!!!!!!!

florence151

It seems a lot of fans are asking that question. Check out the EBAY listings for PJ posters. Prices are down and bids are few. Has the "poster balloon" burst?
Time to sit back and appreciate posters for their art and the memories they evoke.

PJRock75

It's at a low right now, but that is because of the economic crisis that we are all in. It will bounce back because of the strong fan base for the band and simply from the fans of rock art in general. Look at some of the old '60's posters for bands like Jimi Hendrix or the Dead still going for 5, 10,even 15 thousand dollars :shock:

Best time to buy is right now if your just starting out in collecting.

Ok

No doubt its a reflection of the overall economy. And I agree that its a great time to be buying at what are low prices.

Vedderman23

Steve, what are you looking to unload? Shoot me a PM.

It_Wasnt_My_Surface

I won the Vancouver '05 poster yesterday on Ebay for 15 bucks. I was the only person to bid in over 24 hours. I know it's not a big item but still, I expected more. I just started out collecting this year actually. So the cheaper I can get them the better!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

stevehomeair wrote:

I really do not get it....I have forty and am willing to part with all but about 15 the ones i bought from the fan club...NO RESALE!!!!!!!!!!!

they are not as valuable as you think....

seems to me they top out 1-2 weeks after they first become available.....people who were not at a certain show will pay silly prices for a poster......

then after 2 weeks they plummett back to their original sale price or slightly higher.....then of course there are a few exceptions (recentley dusseldorf and hawaii) .....posters that actually seem bring in a fair amount of money ($150-$500)....

being banned from the board for 6 months gave me a lot of time to do some research over at expresso beans(which i refer to as FLIPPER HEAVEN)......and from what i have gathered....

most of the pearl jam flippers who havent already flipped there posters for a profit are going do be very dissapointed.....because most of these recently released posters (05-06-08) are barely worth their original price.....again their are exceptions....(check ebay listings to see how many posters go unsold)

at least that is what i believe to be true.....

SPEEDY MCCREADY

stevehomeair wrote:

I really do not get it....I have forty and am willing to part with all but about 15 the ones i bought from the fan club...NO RESALE!!!!!!!!!!!

"NO RESALE????"

i really wouldnt worry about the NO RESALE clause when you purchase a poster from the 10club...

it doesnt seem to me that they care that much.....and obviously their so called "real fans" dont give a rats ass about the "no resale" clause....because i could bump up 5,853 poster sale threads that have been started in the last month alone.

so go right ahead and join your fellow flippers in the "reselling" of pearl jam merchandise for a profit.....ITS THE IN THING!!!!

FLIP FLIP HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sweet adeline

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

stevehomeair wrote:

I really do not get it....I have forty and am willing to part with all but about 15 the ones i bought from the fan club...NO RESALE!!!!!!!!!!!

being banned from the board for 6 months gave me a lot of time to do some research over at expresso beans(which i refer to as FLIPPER HEAVEN).......

this made me laugh, thanks for the chuckle.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

sweet adeline wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

stevehomeair wrote:

I really do not get it....I have forty and am willing to part with all but about 15 the ones i bought from the fan club...NO RESALE!!!!!!!!!!!

being banned from the board for 6 months gave me a lot of time to do some research over at expresso beans(which i refer to as FLIPPER HEAVEN).......

this made me laugh, thanks for the chuckle.

it is flipper heaven!!!!!

they take the art of flipping to a whole new level......

Lizard

Do you think they'd flip a flipper poster??

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Lizard wrote:

Do you think they'd flip a flipper poster??

they would .......but the TRUE ART OF FLIPPING ......takes a full year....

first you must buy the poster....

then you must say "this pearl jam poster will always remind me of a special time in my life" "i will NEVER EVER part with it"

then a month or 2 later you must say.....

"i only buy posters from the concerts i attend".... "i would never sell a poster for profit".... "anyone who does this is not a TRUE FAN"

then a month or 2 later you say...

"i would never sell a poster for profit!!!!" "how dare you even accuse me of such a thing!!!!"

then a few weeks later you say....."how much did that poster sell for on ebay????"

then a few weeks later you say....."when is brad klausen having his sale on his website????"

then a few weeks later you say...."hey everyone check out my cool framed posters!!!!!!"

then a month or 2 later you finally make........... "THE POST!!!!!!"

"HEY EVERYONE I AM SELLING MY ENTIRE PEARL JAM POSTER COLLECTION!!!!!! (of course you come up with some bullshit excuse as to why you have to sell them......and how DIFFICULT it is for you to part with them)

and there you have it.........

thunderDAN

I only buy the ones of shows I went to- that way they always hold their value to me

SPEEDY MCCREADY

thunderDAN wrote:

I only buy the ones of shows I went to- that way they always hold their value to me

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......................

read my previous post....

TOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thunderDAN

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

thunderDAN wrote:

I only buy the ones of shows I went to- that way they always hold their value to me

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......................

read my previous post....

TOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been to about 300 shows and as much as it pains me I have to unload some of them to pay for my mounting bills.

thunderDAN

although just looking at this board each week all you see if people flipping posters. I wonder if it's the economy- but I really think it's people not knowing the value of money. Maybe the reason you are so broke and desperate for an extra $250 is because you spent $40 on a poster you didn't even need or want in the first place. I made this mistake once, I bought the Copenhagen poster last year and when I got it I thought to myself 'what the fuck am I doing with this? I didn't go to the show, and I've never even been to Denmark (or Europe)- why did I spend $32 on this?' so I sold it for $25 to someone on here who went to the show. I now own 6 posters, all of shows I went to in which I also liked the poster. Money is too hard to come by to just throw $25 out there for every poster that goes on sale, and the people that do that are the same people that end up broke and desperate for money.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

thunderDAN wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

thunderDAN wrote:

I only buy the ones of shows I went to- that way they always hold their value to me

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......................

read my previous post....

TOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been to about 300 shows and as much as it pains me I have to unload some of them to pay for my mounting bills.

you can afford to travel all over the world and go to 300 shows????

but now you are having trouble paying your bills????

and i apologize now ....if these are medical bills....or a tragedyy has struck you and your family...then by all means i wish you the best and i hope you make MILLIONS of DOLLARS selling your posters.....

thunderDAN

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

you can afford to travel all over the world and go to 300 shows????

but now you are having trouble paying your bills????

and i apologize now ....if these are medical bills....or a tragedyy has struck you and your family...then by all means i wish you the best and i hope you make MILLIONS of DOLLARS selling your posters.....

I traveled all over the world and bought all these poster on my Visa card and it's weird, now they want me to pay them for it- so I waited for the posters to mature a little and gain a little value so I can really cash in. I hope the band tours in 2009 because I plan to do it all over again on mister Master Card.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

thunderDAN wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

you can afford to travel all over the world and go to 300 shows????

but now you are having trouble paying your bills????

and i apologize now ....if these are medical bills....or a tragedyy has struck you and your family...then by all means i wish you the best and i hope you make MILLIONS of DOLLARS selling your posters.....

I traveled all over the world and bought all these poster on my Visa card and it's weird, now they want me to pay them for it- so I waited for the posters to mature a little and gain a little value so I can really cash in. I hope the band tours in 2009 because I plan to do it all over again on mister Master Card.

cool.....so you buy the posters strictly to profit off of pearl jam merchandise....ignoring the "NO RESALE" clause the 10club has asked everyone to kindly follow.

and you plan on touring again this summer just so you can purchase more posters and sell them for a profit....

you my friend are a FLIPPER in every sense of the word.....

thunderDAN

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

thunderDAN wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

you can afford to travel all over the world and go to 300 shows????

but now you are having trouble paying your bills????

and i apologize now ....if these are medical bills....or a tragedyy has struck you and your family...then by all means i wish you the best and i hope you make MILLIONS of DOLLARS selling your posters.....

I traveled all over the world and bought all these poster on my Visa card and it's weird, now they want me to pay them for it- so I waited for the posters to mature a little and gain a little value so I can really cash in. I hope the band tours in 2009 because I plan to do it all over again on mister Master Card.

cool.....so you buy the posters strictly to profit off of pearl jam merchandise....ignoring the "NO RESALE" clause the 10club has asked everyone to kindly follow.

and you plan on touring again this summer just so you can purchase more posters and sell them for a profit....

you my friend are a FLIPPER in every sense of the word.....

well I buy all the posters so I can fit in with all the other people that buy them and talk about them on here. I want to build a great collection, but then I realize that I have no money so I come on here and totally ignore the no resale thing and claim all of them came from the shows

pjtradeking

I am proud to say that I have NEVER paid more than face for ANY of the 150+ PJ posters I have. SPEEDY is right...MOST will pay crazy prices for posters right after they are resleased cause they figure they cant get them ever again. I am of the opinion(and so far am 100% right) that if you wait....watch...or get to know the right people or are in the right place at the right time, you can get anything you want for the price you want....Sometimes, really cool people will give them to you cause they know what it means for you to have them.....Now, if I can just get them all up on the walls...Have taken a loooong break...I think it is time to put a few more up on the walls to display in all their glory!!

LukinFan

pjtradeking wrote:

I am proud to say that I have NEVER paid more than face for ANY of the 150+ PJ posters I have. SPEEDY is right...MOST will pay crazy prices for posters right after they are resleased cause they figure they cant get them ever again. I am of the opinion(and so far am 100% right) that if you wait....watch...or get to know the right people or are in the right place at the right time, you can get anything you want for the price you want....Sometimes, really cool people will give them to you cause they know what it means for you to have them.....Now, if I can just get them all up on the walls...Have taken a loooong break...I think it is time to put a few more up on the walls to display in all their glory!!

Hey King- long time!

BeerBaron

thunderDAN wrote:

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

I hope the band tours in 2009 because I plan to do it all over again on mister Master Card.

It surprises me how many people live like this.

TransplantedNewf

"Value" is relative, isn't it? I have the ugliest pj poster ever made proudly displayed in my recroom. It was my first show so to me, it's quite valualbe.

I try to frame all the posters i get...just so i won't be tempted to EVER resell them.

I really don't understand selling framed posters. It seems like such a hassle to me. I sent a poster (in a tube) to oregon and it got crushed so the thought of sending GLASS through the mail just seems silly.

walkunafraid

thunderDAN, you crack me up.

Do people not understand sarcasm anymore?

LoveBoatAdmiral

walkunafraid wrote:

thunderDAN, you crack me up.

Do people not understand sarcasm anymore?

I was just thinking the same thing.

pdalowsky

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Lizard wrote:

Do you think they'd flip a flipper poster??

they would .......but the TRUE ART OF FLIPPING ......takes a full year....

first you must buy the poster....

then you must say "this pearl jam poster will always remind me of a special time in my life" "i will NEVER EVER part with it"

then a month or 2 later you must say.....

"i only buy posters from the concerts i attend".... "i would never sell a poster for profit".... "anyone who does this is not a TRUE FAN"

then a month or 2 later you say...

"i would never sell a poster for profit!!!!" "how dare you even accuse me of such a thing!!!!"

then a few weeks later you say....."how much did that poster sell for on ebay????"

then a few weeks later you say....."when is brad klausen having his sale on his website????"

then a few weeks later you say...."hey everyone check out my cool framed posters!!!!!!"

then a month or 2 later you finally make........... "THE POST!!!!!!"

"HEY EVERYONE I AM SELLING MY ENTIRE PEARL JAM POSTER COLLECTION!!!!!! (of course you come up with some bullshit excuse as to why you have to sell them......and how DIFFICULT it is for you to part with them)

and there you have it.........

brilliant

release30

So are we selling posters in here or what???

pjtradeking

LukinFan wrote:

pjtradeking wrote:

I am proud to say that I have NEVER paid more than face for ANY of the 150+ PJ posters I have. SPEEDY is right...MOST will pay crazy prices for posters right after they are resleased cause they figure they cant get them ever again. I am of the opinion(and so far am 100% right) that if you wait....watch...or get to know the right people or are in the right place at the right time, you can get anything you want for the price you want....Sometimes, really cool people will give them to you cause they know what it means for you to have them.....Now, if I can just get them all up on the walls...Have taken a loooong break...I think it is time to put a few more up on the walls to display in all their glory!!

Hey King- long time!

How are you my friend?? Yeah, I have been trying to find my bearings here....>Different to say the least. Trying to find everyone from the old board and just am not sure who is who and dont know my way around to well yet. Not that I have taken the time to do it, but it is what it is! Glad to see you are here!! Talk soon!