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Everything you need to know about collecting marquees: UPDATED 4/10!!

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Everything you need to know about collecting marquees: UPDATED 4/10!!
derrickb said:
I think that the majority of those interested in marquees will see this, so let me ask, if I were to cancel it and relist it as a five day auction starting this evening would everyone feel better about it? It'll cost me $40, but I'd rather people not assume I'm possibly manipulating them.

Update: Found out ebay will let you cancel 1 auction early without fees per year, so this has been cancelled and relisted with all bidders visible. New auction will end within a few minutes of when the original would have. Sorry for the inconvenience if you were one of the bidders or watching, but I feel this will work out better for all at this point -- Hopefully everyone will find their way back :)
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That was very nice of you to start your auction over again. :bigthumb:
 
I just got confirmation that marquee auctions are being artificially bid up. I was bidding on the Meet The Robinsons Marquee recently from a seller that had a lot of different marquees for sale. I had stopped bidding because it just seemed fishy and I warned the seller about it. Sure enough, I got a second chance offer on it due to a non paying bidder. The note said the seller had two non paying bidders on his auctions. I took a look and the bidder that won the MTR marquee but didn't pay had placed very high bids on nearly every one of the marquees sold. And this is a bidder with 440 feedback!

Clearly marquee prices have been and are still being completely manipulated.
 
nWoJeffDW said:
I just got confirmation that marquee auctions are being artificially bid up. I was bidding on the Meet The Robinsons Marquee recently from a seller that had a lot of different marquees for sale. I had stopped bidding because it just seemed fishy and I warned the seller about it. Sure enough, I got a second chance offer on it due to a non paying bidder. The note said the seller had two non paying bidders on his auctions. I took a look and the bidder that won the MTR marquee but didn't pay had placed very high bids on nearly every one of the marquees sold. And this is a bidder with 440 feedback!

Clearly marquee prices have been and are still being completely manipulated.
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Went in to see what can be done to protect oneself from the seller side. ebay will only let you block buyers that have a minimum of 2 unpaid item cases and the default time period is 1 month, though you can (and I did) change that to over the past 12 months. also, you can block someone with a minimum feedback score but it has to be -1, -2, -3, or -4. I don't even know how you get a negative feedback score.
 
derrickb said:
Went in to see what can be done to protect oneself from the seller side. ebay will only let you block buyers that have a minimum of 2 unpaid item cases and the default time period is 1 month, though you can (and I did) change that to over the past 12 months. also, you can block someone with a minimum feedback score but it has to be -1, -2, -3, or -4. I don't even know how you get a negative feedback score.
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Was your Terabithia marquee restored or fixed? The studs on the back don't line up and look to have been reglued.
Here's mine.


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Here's yours:


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markheardjr said:
Was your Terabithia marquee restored or fixed? The studs on the back don't line up and look to have been reglued.
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I had not noticed, and I was not the original owner, but yes you are correct it does appear that one pin has been restored or fixed. Thank you. Going to update description now.

Derrick
 
derrickb said:
I had not noticed, and I was not the original owner, but yes you are correct it does appear that one pin has been restored or fixed. Thank you. Going to update description now.

Derrick
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It's weird. Because it looks like the backer card has the original holes crooked too. Makes me think it came that way. I don't think I've ever seen a blank no-holes DSF card so the hole crooked must be original?


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markheardjr said:
It's weird. Because it looks like the backer card has the original holes crooked too. Makes me think it came that way. I don't think I've ever seen a blank no-holes DSF card so the hole crooked must be original?


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I would tend to agree, but I don't know for sure. The card definitely looks like it came that way originally though.

This does bring up that pictures are very important to making sure that when you buy something you get exactly what you're expecting. A pinpics picture just isn't good enough for pins. It's so easy nowadays to take digital pictures, and ebay lets you put 12 per listing free - SO USE IT!. It's just laziness in my view if someone can't take the time to get at least one good picture of their item - even the back is important in these days of counterfeit and scrappers.
 
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derrickb said:
I would tend to agree, but I don't know for sure. The card definitely looks like it came that way originally though.

This does bring up that pictures are very important to making sure that when you buy something you get exactly what you're expecting. A pinpics picture just isn't good enough for pins. It's so easy nowadays to take digital pictures, and ebay lets you put 12 per listing free - SO USE IT!. It's just laziness in my view if someone can't take the time to get at least one good picture of their item - even the back is important in these days of counterfeit and scrappers.
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I think they were going to do 1 post in the center (now a flat circled on the back) but opted for 2 posts. I wonder if they changed their minds. I guess I'll have to looka the backs more often and see if there are blank circles the size of a post's base on other pins/marquees? I thought a few marquee's had only 1 post but now I can't remember. Maybe it was only the small one that came with the marquee bag?
 
Some of the very early marquees only had one pin, but then they started doing the 2-pins on each, looks like Cars was the first one... I have photographs of the front and back of all of my marquees (and will put these online as soon as I get the photos cleaned up/cropped... :) ) From Cars onward, they are all two posts except for the Ursula Little Mermaid, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua (and that tiny one that came with the pin bag). Terabithia is the only one that has the round disc shape like it was originally intended to have a single post. The pins on my Terabithia look glued/epoxied in some way as well, and aren't perfectly aligned. I think they changed their mind about the single pin post and the two posts were put on by hand at the factory, so the cleanliness and straightness of the pins will vary... I don't think Derrick's was repaired, I think it was just kind of sloppily done when it was made...

Here's the back of mine:
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Just got Santa Clause 3 as a Birthday Present!!

3 more and I will have the whole top 10 list!!
 
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