Am I missing something here?

This one reel condensation of 'The Bank' is up to $158.91 ... am I missing something here, as there certainly appears to be nothing special about this at all!

Geez. Maybe I can sell 'Hits From The Past' and pay this month's mortgage...

I have often seen, on Ebay, films that would net $30 in a Big Reel ad going for five times that much. I can't understand it. And there is no way of telling what will sell at such an amount. I have seen run-of-the-mill Three Stooges shorts on 16mm go for as much as $200, and also have seen them bottom out at about $40. Who knows?

Perhaps because of the ultra-slick advertising...Charlie silhouettes all over the place, etc.

Now that you mention it, didn't that original 28mm Chaplin print sell for about that much?

Anyone remember that auction from about a year ago? It was a Chaplin theatrical short on green stock, 28mm. A rerelease print dating from the 1920s.

I remember it not selling for very much.

$158.91 for a 16mm who-knows-what-the-source-material-was department store show at home print of 'The Bank'?

I have a bunch of 50 and 100 foot toy projector prints from the 1920s. If I could only get that much for those.

Some have footage from lost films going as far back as the 1910s.

Perhaps my 35mm nitrate 100 foot segment from a lost 1917 silent feature will go for $158.91. Dream on!!!!

Have a nice day,

Darren Nemeth (who has seen used, 1 year old DVDs sell on eBay in the $40 range that to this day the same exact thing can be found at Amazon and Deep Discount DVD still sealed for less than $20)

I think many of the people who are regular Big Reel readers also look at eBay, but I think there are a lot of eBayers who aren't even aware of the Big Reel, so they have a somewhat skewed sense of what something's really worth. That, and it's pretty difficult to work up a case of 'bidder's fever' while reading a Big Reel ad.

You want a crazy auction ad - try this one...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& item=3339368164&categor...

Oh man, what the heck?

I'm speechless. Those nutty-cuckoo Billy Graham memorabilia collectors. Now, of course I wouldn't mind having a video copy of that (undoubtedly) mind-numbing artifact, but I wouldn't pay more than ten bucks for it. I can't wait to see the winning bid amount...

The fact that the price is enormous is one thing, but the fact that someone actually bid on it.....!

The bidder's name pretty much tells it all - bibleplus.