- Bidding on Auctions
- I Was Outbid Right Away
- Sniping an Auction
- Purchasing a Fixed Price Item
- Making an Offer/Counteroffers
- Won/Purchased
- Terms & Conditions
- Can I Make an Offer on an Item from your Sold Archive?
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- Invoices
- Shipping Charges & Insurance
- Sales tax
- Payment Options
- Return Policy
- What if My Item Arrives Damaged?
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- Why should I Sell my Posters Through MPE?
- Fixed Price or Auction? What is Right for Me?
- What Does MPE Charge to List My Items?
- Is There a Limit on the Amount of Items One can List for Sale?
- How do I pay MPE as a seller?
- How are the Items Graded and Authenticated?
- Are There Different Commissions for Different Types of Auctions and/or Sales Through MPE?
- Can I send MPE my items to list and sell for me?
- Creating a New Listing
- How to Best Photograph Your item
- Pending
- Accepting or Declining Offers
- Shipping to MPE
- How do I get Paid?
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- Changing My Information
- Want List
- Tracked Items
- Problems?
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- Bidding Strategy
- Tracking Items
- Search Results
- Sorting
- Refine Search
- Advanced Search
- Center Column Search
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- What kind of Movie Poster Do I Have?
- What is this Number at the Bottom Corner of My Poster?
- How to Grade Posters?
- Who and What is a 3rd Party Grading Service?
- How do I Photograph my Poster?
- Are There Fake Movie Posters?
- Caring for Your Movie Posters?
- What is Linen Backing?
- How Much are Movie Posters Worth?
- Will you Appraise My Movie Posters?
- How do I Pack and Ship my Movie Posters?
- Other Definitions and Terms
- Do you Offer Gift Certificates?
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Bidding on Auctions
BUYING AND BIDDING IS FREE. All registered members of MPE are able to bid and buy items with no buyer’s premium added to purchases or auctions, ever. Please remember that when you bid on an item, you create a binding and enforceable contract and bids cannot be rescinded. All bidding is by proxy bid, meaning when you enter your maximum bid, the computer will keep it secret and execute bids on your behalf ensuring that any winning bids are made at the lowest possible bid increment.
I Was Outbid Right Away
MPE works on a proxy bid system. This means that when you make a bid, the system keeps track of your bid amount as a secret maximum, and no one else can see or know how much you bid. So if you bid and were immediately outbid, it means another bidder had previously placed a higher bid than yours. MPE’s computer system will keep track of your secret bid and bid for you when another bidder competes against you in an auction (but not higher than your maximum of course).
Example: If you are the first bidder on an item that starts at $10, but you enter a secret maximum bid of $100, the current bid will show $10 and you will win the item for that amount if no one else bids. If another bidder places a $50 bid, they will immediately be outbid by your prior higher bid and you will then be the high bidder at $55.
Sniping an Auction
MPE has partnered with Gavelsnipe (www.Gavelsnipe.com) to offer FREE sniping ability for all of our auctions. Sniping allows you to be away from your computer and still bid on items in which you are interested as they close. Because Gavelsnipe is an independant 3rd party company, you never have to worry that someone will see your secret maximum bid to run up the price you will pay for an item. You simply tell Gavelsnipe which item you would like to bid on, enter your secret maximum bid, when you would like Gavelsnipe to bid for you, and they take care of the rest.
Purchasing a Fixed Price Item
Simply use the “Buy Now” button appearing next to an item to purchase it right away. You must be a registered member of MPE to purchase items. After hitting the “Buy Now” button the poster will then appear in your shopping cart where you can either continue shopping or checkout, and enter your shipping and payment information.
Making an Offer/Counteroffers
Many times on a fixed price item, the seller would consider a price below their asking price. In these cases, there will be a button underneath the “Buy Now” button that says “Make Offer” and there will be a field under the listed Buy Now price where you can type an amount to submit to the seller. Once you enter an amount and press the Make Offer button, the seller will have 48 hours to respond to your offer and accept it or make a counter-offer. If accepted, you will be billed and sent an invoice. If a counter-offer is submitted by the seller, you will then have 48 hours to respond to the seller.
Won/Purchased
When you use the “Buy Now” button, or accept a counter-offer, the purchased item will appear in the “Won/Purchased” category of your user panel where you can complete your order by providing shipping and payment information. Please note that all prices are in U.S. currency and do not include shipping and insurance. Georgia and North Carolina residents will be responsible for sales tax.
Terms & Conditions
Please see our User Agreement page
Can I Make an Offer on an Item from your Sold Archive?
Yes! MPE is still setting up a system for you to make an offer on archived items right from their page, but if you see an item in our sales archive you are interested in, please send an email to us at info@movieposterexchange.com listing the item and the price you would be willing to pay and MPE will contact the owner for you to see if they are interested in selling.
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Invoices
At the end of auctions, invoices will be sent out to all parties that have won one or more items in our auctions. These invoices will include appropriate shipping charges (including insurance), and sales tax where applicable. Payment is due upon receipt of invoices.
Shipping Charges & Insurance
MPE does not view shipping as a profit center. MPE prefers to ship with and recommends the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Unless you specifically state otherwise, items will be shipped by USPS and insured if the shipment is within the U.S. All orders shipped outside of the U.S. will be shipped by FedEx or USPS. Shipping charges are determined and calculated at the time of checkout. MPE interfaces with both USPS and Fedex to calculate exact charges based on your location. *Note: It has come to our attention that the USPS API Online Interface does not allow for First Class International Shipping(our preferred method and the most cost-effective). We are exploring other third party API applications. In the meantime International shipping will be a flat $18.00 with the exception of Canada, which will be a flat $12.00.
Sales tax
Georgia residents are required to pay 6% sales tax and North Carolina residents are required to pay 7.75% sales tax. You will be billed for sales tax unless you have the appropriate documentation on file at and verified by MPE prior to invoicing.
Payment Options
MPE accepts Checks, All Major Credit Cards through PayPal, and Bank Wire
Transaction Times
From the time MPE receives your payment, please allow 2-3 weeks for your items to be shipped. Remember, MPE in many cases does not store Seller items on premises during the period they are listed for sale or auction. Immediately upon your agreement to purchase an item, the Seller is contacted and instructed to ship the item to MPE within 7 days. MPE will then review and process the item(s) you purchased, and ship your order.
What is MPE’s Return Policy?
The best in the business. We want happy, repeat customers. If you receive your purchase and are unhappy in any way, you can return it within seven (7) days for a complete refund (provided it is received back in the same condition it was sent). BUT, if you are unhappy with your purchase we encourage you to contact us to see if we can do something to make you happy.
What if my Item Arrives Damaged?
We take extra precautions to pack our orders to prevent damage and breakage. If despite our efforts your order does arrive damaged, please do the following: If your order was delivered by FedEx, please contact MoviePosterExchange for instructions. If your order was shipped by U.S. Mail, take the entire order (all contents and all original packing material) to your local Post Office to file a claim. The U.S. Post Office will send the claim to us for processing. Do not repack and do not mail the damaged items back to us. This will void the U.S. Post Office insurance and we will not be able to give you a refund.
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Why should I Sell my Posters Through MPE?
MPE is the largest Interactive Movie Posters-only Portal on the web. MPE offers both buyers and sellers a unique platform to interact with each other while still maintaining their complete privacy. As a seller using our fixed price format, YOU set the price you are would like to receive for your posters, and they never even have to leave your possession until you have confirmation of a sale. If you use our auction format, you also set the time when you would like your posters to be auctioned. No more waiting for an auction house or seller to finally getting around to selling your items.
And of course we do all this while offering you the lowest price commissions of any major movie poster seller for items you list: 10%!!
Fixed Price or Auction? What is Right for Me?
It depends.
Several factors go into your decision when listing your items for sale. How long will it take to sell, What are your expectations as to price, how rare is your item, and how quickly you would like to get paid, are but a few of the things you need to think about when deciding how to sell your item. If you choose to sell your poster at auction, you will certainly get paid faster, but there is no guarantee as to what the selling price of your poster will be (though with our large client base and traffic, we get excellent results for sellers). If you choose to list your poster at a fixed price, it might sell more slowly than you wish, but you will get to choose exactly the price you want and many times that price will be much higher than what it normally sells for at auction.
Does MPE Charge to List My Items?
There is never a listing fee on MPE. MPE only takes a small commission AFTER your item sells, thus producing risk-free listings for the seller.
Is There a Limit on the Amount of Items One can List for Sale?
Never! MPE encourages sellers to list as many items as they would be interested in selling.
How do I pay MPE as a seller?
MPE takes care of collecting all monies for you, subtracts our fee and forwards payments to you as quickly as possible.
How are the Items Graded and Authenticated?
We encourage all sellers to strictly grade according to the 10-point grading system here. When an item is received at our offices it is heavily scrutinized to make sure that it is in the grade advertised and that it is authentic. Our staff has over 50 years combined in the poster business and has been utilized by the FBI in their investigations of fraudulent movie posters. At any buyer’s request, we are happy to forward their purchase to one of the 3rd party grading services for review.
Are There Different Commissions for Different Types of Auctions and/or Sales Through MPE?
On items that the seller lists themselves for a fixed price, the commission is always 10%*. Commission on auction items is also always 10% (whether you list your item or MPE does). If you use MPE’s value-added service (where you send the items to MPE and we list and sell them for you, see below) the rate is an industry low 20%.
* 3% Merchant fee will be added if buyer pays via credit card or paypal. Please note MoviePosterExchange will apply a $5 service charge for listings that are valued or sell for $50 or less.
Can I send MPE my items to list and sell for me?
YES. MPE will accept limited amounts of material directly to list for sellers. We offer the value added services of storing your item, photographing it for listing, grading, writing a description, pricing recommendation, along with our usual safe packing and shipping to buyers for an additional 10% of the selling price (added onto MoviePosterExchange’s 10% commission). If you accept this option, you must agree to give MoviePosterExchange the right to either sell the consigned items for a minimum period of six months, or to sell your items in one of our event auctions. Because of the extra commitment involved in this option, we must limit this to items that have an individual market value of $100 or more.
Creating a New Listing
All registered members are encouraged to take advantage of our free listings to advertise their posters for sale. In the right-hand column User Section, under My Selling, there is a link for either Manual or Bulk uploads. (Bulk uploads must be in a CSV-type file and there is a downloadable instruction sheet in the Bulk Upload section.) When choosing manual uploads, you have three options: Fixed Price, Weekly Auctions, or Event Auctions. Fixed Price items are where you decide on a Buy Now price (and input a minimum offer you would consider, if any) and enter the item Title, Condition, Description and other details. Because of our powerful refine search function, there is no need to spam the title or description with keywords. In fact, items with excessive spamming risk not being approved for listing. MPE suggests the Title line have just the movie title and a description of the poster type (e.g. “Star Wars one-sheet” or “Gone With the Wind Lobby Card #3”). The listings of actors and actresses, Academy Awards received or other similar information should be done in the Description section, not the Title section. Please provide a careful and honest assessment of your poster when giving condition details in the written description and pick the numerical grade that best represents your poster on a 1-10 scale (10 being best) from the drop-down menu. Please make certain any photo(s) you upload of your poster are clean and clear (see instructions below for taking photos) and if your poster is in a frame, please remove it before taking a photo – MPE will not approve listings where the photo shows a framed poster. After submitting your item, please allow up to 24 hours for approval.
Whether you load up an item for a fixed price or an auction, it will first appear in your account as being in a pending state. This means that it is awaiting for MPE Administration to approve your item being added to the fixed price or joining the queue for the next auction. This pending process can take up to 24 hours, but is usually quicker and you will receive an email notification of when your item is approved.
Accepting or Declining Offers
When an offer is made on an item you have listed with MPE, you will be notified by email (as long as the offer is above the minimum you originally set when listing the item) and you then have 48 hours to accept or decline the offer. If you accept the offer, an invoice will be sent to the buyer and you will be expected to immediately ship your poster to MPE so it can be forwarded to the buyer. If you decline the offer, you will then have a chance to submit a counter-offer to the interested party, who will then have another 48 hours to accept or reject your counter-offer. Both incoming and outgoing offers are controlled from the User Control Panel located on the right-hand column of your page.
Shipping to MPE
Selling through MPE allows you the ability to hold on to your item until it sells, unlike other online consignment sellers that require you to ship in advance (you will end up shipping your item in both cases). This allows you the flexibility to sell the item personally if you so choose (though we ask that if you do sell your item in another venue to please remove item if you sell). When you have sold an item on MPE, you are expected to ship the item to us as quickly as possible. All shipments should be sent to us within five (5) days of confirmation of purchase. If you have sold multiple items you are welcome to ship them all to us in one package. Please make sure you include a list of the items you are sending (this can be printed from the Reports section under My Accounts in the right-hand column of the page).
How do I Get Paid?
MPE takes care of collecting all monies for you, subtracts our fee and forwards payments to you as quickly as possible in any manner which you would like (Check, Wire, or PayPal).
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Changing My Information
To update any of your personal information (username, address, credit card) simply sign into your account at the upper right hand corner of the page and then click on the “Profile” link in the box at the top of the right column. If you wish to change your password, scroll down to the bottom of the right-hand side column and click on the “Change Password” link under “My Account”.
Want List
MPE offers a unique Want List Service that will send you emails and notify you when a poster title is listed that matches what you are looking to buy. To add items to your want list, click on “My Want List” under the “My Account” tab at the bottom of the right-hand column, then click the “Add to Want List” tab in the middle column. You can edit or delete already created want list items by clicking the appropriate icon in the center column.
Tracking/Watching Items
If you wish to track items (either fixed price or auction) you can do so via our “Watch List” feature. This will give you a central location to peruse items in which you are interested. All individual listings have a “Watch This Item” tab in the middle of the information column, just above the description. Click it and the item will be added to your watch list. When looking at multiple items in either the List or Gallery view, you can either click the individual “Watch This Item” tab below the photographs of the item, or you can click the box next to the name of several items and click the “Watch Selected” tab in the center column.
Problems?
Most issues come from incapatibility with older web browser versions and can easily be resolved by updating to newest version. We strongly recommend the latest version of whichever browser you are currently using, as these newer versions include support for the latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript extensions which have been used in this site. If you still encounter any errors or problems while trying to navigate MPE, please email us at info@Movieposterexchange.com or call us at 336.402.4123.
Privacy Policy
MPE values our customer’s privacy and trust. MPE will NEVER sell, share, rent, or give any information you trust with us to anyone else, period. MPE uses an encrypted secure SSL server to process all orders and provide an extra layer of protection for our customers.
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Bidding Strategy
Many times bidders will enter a single low bid early on an item, simply to announce to others that they are aware of, and watching said item. This way it stays on their dashboard and the bidder can keep a close eye on it until it is close to the end of the auction. This will also help gauge interest in an item and possibly give the bidder an idea of where the item will end up bidding wise so they can budget accordingly. MPE’s weekly auctions do NOT have extended bidding, they have a set end time so it is important to give a lot of consideration as to what your final bid will be on any particular item. Many bidders will take advantage of the FREE sniping service MPE offers with www.Gavelsnipe.com to execute bids only second before the item ends, so no one watching the item will have time to think and place a higher bid in response. If you use Gavelsnipe, please give careful consideration to that final bid. A good rule of thumb for a poster you really want is to think of the highest price you would be willing to pay, then think if you lost the poster to someone bidding the next increment. If you feel like you would have bid again one more time, then up your bid slightly. If you feel like you are ok with losing out on the poster at that price, then you have figured out the best comfort zone for your bid.
Tracked Items
If you wish to track items (either fixed price or auction) you can do so via our “Watch List” feature. This will give you a central location to peruse items in which you are interested. All individual listings have a “Watch This Item” tab in the middle of the information column, just above the description. Click it and the item will be added to your watch list. When looking at multiple items in either the List or Gallery view, you can either click the individual “Watch This Item” tab below the photographs of the item, or you can click the box next to the name of several items and click the “Watch Selected” tab in the center column.
Search Results
Sorting
By using a combination of our Advanced Search function at the top right-hand section of the page and the Refine Search options along the left-hand column, user should be able to quickly and easily sort through the massive amounts of material on MPE to find posters in which they are interested. Please note that on MPE, keywords are used to search both Titles and Descriptions.
NOTE: You can hold down the Control key on your keyboard(Ctrl) and click on any other section of the site to open a new window/tab. This will allow you keep the current window open with being redirected.
Refine Search
You can combine different elements from the four main Refine Search tabs along the right-hand column. For example, you can click “Film Noir/Crime” under “Category/Genre” and then also click “One-sheets” from “Search all Sizes” and even then continue to click “1940-1940” under “Search all Decades” to get more streamlined search result. You can then click “1940-1949” a second time to remove the “Search by Decade” option (or the option of your choosing) and return to a search result showing all years of posters.
Advanced Search
At the top right of the MPE page (Above the “My Dashboard” button) is a search field and the “Advanced Search” button. Click on it to pull up multiple options when using keywords with search. You can click on as many fields to include (or exclude) as you would like.
Search Within Tabs
The search field in the center column is used to search items in whichever tab you are currently viewing in the center of the screen. Therefore if you are in the “See All Items” tab, it will search everything, if you are in the “Fixed Price” tab it will exclude all auctions, while if you are in the “Weekly Auctions” tab it will not search any fixed price items.
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What kind of Movie Poster Do I Have?
What are These Numbers at the Bottom Corner of My Poster?
How do I Photograph my Poster?
Grading Definitions
The 10-point grading system was first introduced by Jon Warren in Warren’s Movie Poster Price Guide. A great deal of thanks is owed to Jon for attempting to standardize grading and convert it to a 10-point system, which is already in use in many other hobbies and is far easier to understand than random systems used by many dealers to describe their merchandise (one dealer’s “excellent” could be another’s “fine” or condition “B”).
A 10-point system easily allows any prospective buyer to visualize the condition of a poster without having to rely on a dealer’s word grade, as a number allows both buyer and seller to think of the poster as a percentage of 10 (i.e 10 = 100%, so 8 = 80% of 10, 6 = 60%, etc.).
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10.0
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Gem Mint
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Absolutely perfect, regardless of age
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9.9
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Mint
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9.8
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Near Mint/Mint
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Appears fresh off the press
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9.6
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Near Mint +
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9.4
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Near Mint
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9.2
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Near Mint -
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No pinholes allowed in this grade or higher
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9.0
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Very Fine/Near Mint
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Highest grade allowed for restored/linenbacked items
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8.5
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Very Fine +
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Bright, supple, and clean with a few minor flaws
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8.0
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Very Fine
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Small pinholes and/or small border creases
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7.5
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Very Fine -
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No tape on poster in this grade or higher
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7.0
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Fine/Very Fine
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A nicely preserved item
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6.5
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Fine +
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Possibly minor fading, or writing on back which bleeds through to front, small amount of paper loss ok
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6.0
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Fine
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Highest grade for a Window Card with the top trimmed
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5.5
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Fine -
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5.0
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Very Good/Fine
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Heavily worn & used, not suitable for many collectors
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4.5
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Very Good +
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4.0
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Very Good
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Numerous tears, pinholes, creases, writing, etc.
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3.5
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Very Good -
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3.0
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Good/Very Good
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Possibly fragile or brittle paper
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2.5
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Good +
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2.0
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Good
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Heavy accumulation of defects, paper loss, severe fold separation, staining, holes, tape, etc.
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1.8
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Good -
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1.5
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Fair/Good
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All the defects from 2-4, but to a greater degree
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1.0
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Fair
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.5
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Poor
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Unsuitable for most any purpose, except on the very rarest of items
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How are the Items Listed Graded and Authenticated?
MPE encourages all sellers to strictly grade according to the 10-point grading system here. When an item is received at our offices it is heavily scrutinized to make sure that it is in the grade advertised and that it is authentic. Our staff has over 75 years combined in the poster business and has been utilized by the FBI in their investigations o f fraudulent movie posters. At any buyer’s request, MPE is happy to forward their purchase to one of the 3rd party grading services for review.
Who and What is a 3rd Party Grading Service?
A 3rd party grading service is an independent company that is solely in the business of authenticating and giving an impartial grade to posters and lobby cards.
The oldest and most established of these is Certified Guaranty Company (CGC). At this time they only authenticate and grade lobby cards, then place them in an archival holder to assure their assigned grade as long as the lobby card remains in the holder.
For more about CGC, please visit their website .
Are There Fake Movie Posters?
Caring for Your Movie Posters
What is Linen Backing?
How Much are Movie Posters Worth?
Will you Appraise My Movie Posters?
How do I Pack and Ship my Movie Posters?
Other Definitions and Terms
Do you Offer Gift Certificates?
- Yes! Gift Certificates can make a great gift if you are unsure what to get that special someone. Gift Certificates may be purchased in any amount you desire. Contact us at info@Movieposterexchange.com if you would like to purchase one.
Do you Offer Certificates of Authenticity?
- Yes. Although MPE unconditionally guarantees everything it sells to be authentic, if you request one, MPE will be happy to supply a Certificate of Authenticity with your purchase (must be requested at the time of purchase).
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