We could both be right. I'm honestly the exact opposite of your
clients. I consider a good ****tion of the "hot" people now to be
flash in the pans that will fall from people's minds quicker than what
the Jehovah's Witness just rattled on at their front door. I am only
38, supposedly on the fringes of the clients that buy the Kat Von Ds,
the Karda****an and whoever. Honestly, I would right have Bruce
Jenner's (the Karda****an step-father) autograph as he actually
contributed something to BE famous and worthy of an autograph request.
The Kard. sisters, the Hilton sisters, etc. are ONLY famous because
they were born with a name. Von D is ONLY a tattoo artist. They have
not contributed anything to this country to be worthy of an autograph
request. LOL Hillary Duff, Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus are only
famous because of the "Disney Machine" cookie cutter. Other than
Christina Aguilera, we've seen how well the results have been with the
cookie cutters. :-) For me, I would rather have those "forgotten"
celebs. Now, if Ford was a realistic price for someone that actually
works for a living, then I would be interested in his too, but not
these astronomical prices. People may be paying it, but he's not
worth that value. Just my .02¢.
--
Mike
Gummby3
-= Star Collector =-
www.star-collector.net
Celebrity addresses the way they should be - free.
"barefoot" <barefootmk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> you say that people won't be able to re sell them...but to be
> honest...i don't think that people buying the autographs for$300 or
> so
> are intending to sell them...yes, you are right, it's probably the
> top
> of the market to sell any living person's autograph for $300+. but
> i'm
> gonna say this. it's tough out there. and it's not worth the time to
> sell it for less. i tried to sell a ford, for $75 on ebay, like 4
> years ago. but it got no bids. but there were at least 5, for under
> $30 and they all got bids. and none of those were real.
>
> you could be right, obvious there are fewer lawrence
> olivier's...much
> fewer. but i think you are wrong in thinking that people who love
> old
> hollywood will always care. i think when generations die down,
> people
> stop caring. out of sight, out of mind. and as hollywood keeps
> making
> remakes of movies, people will care even less. Charlton heston
> doesn't
> sell. he didn't sell before he passed, and doesn't sell after. even
> if
> you factor out the ebay's "hot now" scenario, old, deceased actors
> don't matter to a lot of people unless they are coinsiderably older.
> a
> 20 year old doesn't walk into an autograph store and get excited by
> a
> lawrence olivier, but they will buy the cast photo signed by the
> karda****an sisters for $100. or, in my case, at frank n sons, i sold
> a
> STACK of kat von d autographs for $50 a piece, but my kirk douglas
> just sits there and no one asks about him. same price. so using that
> logic, i'd say that once the people 50 and older start to pass on,
> the
> legacy of olivier(and others like him) will fade into oblivion.
> m
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