Bonding with Propstore.com

ppw3o6r

Here's a sneak peak of the Bond goodies Propstore have going under the hammer in their Live 23rd September auction...now where did Donk leave his cheque book?



Francisco Scaramanga's harmless toy!


Pierce Brosnan's PAK P99 pistol & blank fire silencer

http://propstore.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/info/id/26/

The Bond Experience

Is the online catalog available?

ACACIA_AVENUE

Nice one Donk, thanks for posting ........... Will you be going for the Julie T. Wallace jumpsuit or the Octopus Cult Assassin Costume

I don't think the online catalog is available yet, The printed catalogues are not available until 26th August -{

jared_nomak

I thought the p99 was listed as sold at the last auction

ppw3o6r

jared_nomak wrote:

I thought the p99 was listed as sold at the last auction

This particular P99 was originally sold at the 2006 Guns of James Bond auction at Christies -{

Bond Collectors' Weekends

Can you believe it? Of the whole list, I want the green gadget tunic. The champagne flute sounds too expensive...

HatThrowingHenchman

if I'm not mistakin' a champaign fluge is a glass?

Bond Collectors' Weekends

Indeed.



The red Casino Royale plaque was likewise £600 - £800 on estimate last year, and fetched £2,250 at hammer time!

HatThrowingHenchman

Bond Collectors' Weekends wrote:

Indeed.



The red Casino Royale plaque was likewise £600 - £800 on estimate last year, and fetched £2,250 at hammer time!

wow pretty cheap for a glass then, is it? )
oh god...

alphaagent

Ahhh good ol propstore, using your childhood memories for merciless profit.

Bond Collectors' Weekends

Mercy on my collection needs...!

Bond Collectors' Weekends

A French page has more photos from the auction--they credit Bond Lifestyle but I didn't see anything on that site...

http://bond-news.over-blog.com/2015/08/des-props-aux-encheres.html

alphaagent

Ow du yu say, dees is ze sheet. A massive pile of expensive overly expensive sheet. Viola

Bond Collectors' Weekends

The starting bids are okay--but they won't hold!

lippe

Would utterly love for that P99 but £10k would be about my limit on that beauty.

Bond Collectors' Weekends

The CR blue plaque is up to 1900 pounds today, weeks before the auction opens!

"I heard the price of plaques was going up, but..."

The Bond Vivant

Is anyone following the Propstore auction live? Bond stuff still to come, but there are some crazy ass prices when the hammer falls at the mo! From The Fifth Element (not my bag at all), Milla Jovovich's Multi Pass, estimate £4-6K, went for £35,000!!!!!

http://propstore.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/26/lot/3304/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Findividual-lots%2F%3Fkey%3Dfifth%2Belement

CRB

I am. Fascinating to watch !!

The Bond Vivant

£800 for a Stromberg Sub Crew Beret

£10k for Brosnan's P99 from TND

1 Million Dollar chip from CR for £2,500

parfaitelumiere

The scaramanga revolver is a real SAA, and looks like the grip are genuine ivory, so just a a simple revolver it's value is quite high!

Bond Collectors' Weekends

Plus 20% commission at hammer time, plus VAT, plus shipping! Wow! I bid on the beret myself but... crazy! Crazy!

DBS

Unreal prices!! I can't get over the final price on that Leeloo Multi Pass! Maybe I should start on a high-end replica...

There must be quite a few collectors out there with money burning holes in their pockets. Crazy!

PoorMansJB

DBS wrote:

There must be quite a few collectors out there with money burning holes in their pockets. Crazy!

Only takes two, both committed to winning.

As has been pointed out time and again, this isn't any demonstration of the actual value of the pieces in question, just the determination of those wanting to own them. I doubt seriously that a decade from now that the MultiPass could fetch anywhere near that.

The Domino Effect

It's been my experience in other areas of collecting that what often happens in well-publicised specialty sales is that people with deep pockets who aren't collectors per se, but who like the subject sometimes wade in to grab one token item for their home/office. They don't necessarily know availability or even the going market rate or even care, but they want one item. The ultimate hammer price gets driven up and although that prices becomes a benchmark value to some, the real collectors and experts know that it's actually not particularly accurate. This may well have happened here with a few items.

alphaagent

propstore have always purposely pushed to make prices as high as possibile and use that bench mark when they sell anything on their website. If you want to know the real price of am item, call them up and try sell them something.

ppw3o6r

I've been a customer of Propstore for close on 15 years now & have seen them grow from a small relatively cramped office connected to an upper & lower warehouse on the premises of a farm/estate to the international operation they are today. Now some people love them & some people hate them but what I will say is when I purchased Jordan Klein's Thunderball Tow Sled from their first Entertainment Memorabilia Live auction my intention was to collect it to save a few quid but try as I might I could not get the thing to fit in the back of a Volvo estate car. Not only did Propstore offer to deliver it free of charge but it was their General Manager Tim Lawes who was at the wheel of the delivery van who helped me to hump the thing into the house & circumnavigate around delicate obstacles to get it upstairs and mount it on its display base. Now that is what I call service.
As for selling I've had some experience in that area too & have found that rather than sell direct to them it is better for both parties to sell on consignment where their commission is 20% + VAT at the current rate. This way you can pretty much dictate the price you want to achieve minus their fees which is pretty much the same with any major auction venue.

Yes at auction prices can go nuts if you have two individuals who want a one of a kind unique item but you can also pick up a bargain such as the prices realised on The Living Daylights and License Revoked clapperboards which have previously realised close on double the prices achieved this time around.

Finally Propstore have a lifetime money back guarantee if something turns out to be not what it was believed to be..that would be fake and as a collector that added security IMO is worth paying that bit extra for -{

alphaagent

ppw3o6r wrote:

I've been a customer of Propstore for close on 15 years now & have seen them grow from a small relatively cramped office connected to an upper & lower warehouse on the premises of a farm/estate to the international operation they are today. Now some people love them & some people hate them but what I will say is when I purchased Jordan Klein's Thunderball Tow Sled from their first Entertainment Memorabilia Live auction my intention was to collect it to save a few quid but try as I might I could not get the thing to fit in the back of a Volvo estate car. Not only did Propstore offer to deliver it free of charge but it was their General Manager Tim Lawes who was at the wheel of the delivery van who helped me to hump the thing into the house & circumnavigate around delicate obstacles to get it upstairs and mount it on its display base. Now that is what I call service.
As for selling I've had some experience in that area too & have found that rather than sell direct to them it is better for both parties to sell on consignment where their commission is 20% + VAT at the current rate. This way you can pretty much dictate the price you want to achieve minus their fees which is pretty much the same with any major auction venue.

Yes at auction prices can go nuts if you have two individuals who want a one of a kind unique item but you can also pick up a bargain such as the prices realised on The Living Daylights and License Revoked clapperboards which have previously realised close on double the prices achieved this time around.

Finally Propstore have a lifetime money back guarantee if something turns out to be not what it was believed to be..that would be fake and as a collector that added security IMO is worth paying that bit extra for -{

Sorry mate I know the owner from when he had a stall at comic conventions, greedy and untrustworthy then and just the same except perhaps even more ruthless now, don't be fooled by the buddy friendly facade bull$&@ . They are one of the primary people responsabile for driving prop prices up and making people pay for pieces of plastic making them believe that they are investments and worth thousands of pounds. I have been in the prop collecting for 20 years now, plus was in the selling for 6 years. I am not surprised they helped get your item free of charge having probably made you pay a fortune for it. There are many other great prop sellers and dealers, propstore is not one of them. P.s good luck on that lifetime gaurantee, they only sell fakes you could never prove otherwise.

Asp9mm

alphaagent wrote:

Sorry mate I know the owner from when he had a stall at comic conventions, greedy and untrustworthy then and just the same except perhaps even more ruthless now, don't be fooled by the buddy friendly facade bull$&@ . They are one of the primary people responsabile for driving prop prices up and making people pay for pieces of plastic making them believe that they are investments and worth thousands of pounds. I have been in the prop collecting for 20 years now, plus was in the selling for 6 years. I am not surprised they helped get your item free of charge having probably made you pay a fortune for it. There are many other great prop sellers and dealers, propstore is not one of them.

This first part of your statement holds an element of truth for the listed items on their site, but auction prices are down solely to the bidders and the market, so you can't blame Prop Store for that. I do find that their certification process isn't regulated at all and that they can set their own provenance on items is a bit disturbing. But back to price, the big successful films might command huge prices, but the others are very reasonably priced. It is a business and no one is forcing us to buy them, and before the internet made these items available to everyone, the prices were far far higher to a niche market in the know. So you can also blame them for forcing prices down too.

alphaagent wrote:

P.s good luck on that lifetime gaurantee, they only sell fakes you could never prove otherwise.

This last statement as quoted certainly isn't true. Some odd items may be questionable, but the vast majority (99.9999%) of items are what they are advertised as. No business is infallible, especially when it comes to provenance of props and their intended use in the film, be it production supplied to screen used. Sometimes it's impossible to tell. And if you prove otherwise to what they advertise the item as, you get your money back. The Wise clapperboards are proof of that.

alphaagent

Asp9mm wrote:

alphaagent wrote:

Sorry mate I know the owner from when he had a stall at comic conventions, greedy and untrustworthy then and just the same except perhaps even more ruthless now, don't be fooled by the buddy friendly facade bull$&@ . They are one of the primary people responsabile for driving prop prices up and making people pay for pieces of plastic making them believe that they are investments and worth thousands of pounds. I have been in the prop collecting for 20 years now, plus was in the selling for 6 years. I am not surprised they helped get your item free of charge having probably made you pay a fortune for it. There are many other great prop sellers and dealers, propstore is not one of them.

This first part of your statement holds an element of truth for the listed items on their site, but auction prices are down solely to the bidders and the market, so you can't blame Prop Store for that. I do find that their certification process isn't regulated at all and that they can set their own provenance on items is a bit disturbing. But back to price, the big successful films might command huge prices, but the others are very reasonably priced. It is a business and no one is forcing us to buy them, and before the internet made these items available to everyone, the prices were far far higher to a niche market in the know. So you can also blame them for forcing prices down too.

alphaagent wrote:

P.s good luck on that lifetime gaurantee, they only sell fakes you could never prove otherwise.

This last statement as quoted certainly isn't true. Some odd items may be questionable, but the vast majority (99.9999%) of items are what they are advertised as. No business is infallible, especially when it comes to provenance of props and their intended use in the film, be it production supplied to screen used. Sometimes it's impossible to tell. And if you prove otherwise to what they advertise the item as, you get your money back. The Wise clapperboards are proof of that.

Before these scumbags you could buy props from sets, from productions and you could pick pieces up for reasonable prices from other collectors. i am sorry asp but you have no idea what you are talking about when you say "prices were higher in a Niche market" I bought and sold in that Niche market and prices were low and above all reasonable, you paid for what it was and never ever came close to what prices are today. It is a business your right, but a corrupt one, even though there are companies like VIP that do auctions and deal with studios, meaning you can buy items at auction at a good price, propstore will bid on these items then stick them on their website at 70% higher. The owner, being a greedy and arrogant pr%# went around every prop maker in London and offered crazy prices, to take a stranglehold on the business. Which effectively he did all of sudden it got out of hand and the prices went up. nobody is forcing people to buy, you are right but for my fellow ajb'rs here, I want them to be in gaurd and know who they are dealing with. Proffesional prop makers in the Uk that work in the industry despise propostore and how they operate. I also want people to be cautious because I know for a fact that some main pieces not "odd pieces" that have been sold as authentic, were in fact copies made by someone for them, which they do because there is no way to prove anything to the contrary.

Higgins

While I believe in a market which is balancing supply and demand - I can understand from where you are coming from, alpha.

BUT:
1. the internet changed everything in this market.
Look at the masses of new members which show up on AJB for every new movie - these are all competitors for you when their appetite is wettened thru the pics which are shown here.

2. And if you really want to accuse someone driving up prices - this all started with the first Christie's auction where everything went onto a new level and propstore at best hopped on a moving train.

Like Asp9mm said - when 2 collectors with deep pockets have the same info on a certain item being available, prices will go mad.

If you are the only one knowing about a certain item or seller, you still can get lucky but in the times where every bit of info can be had over the net - these cases get rare and rarer. And Propstore has nothing to do with it.

Higgins

The good thing about the existence of the internet is hat I know people like yourself, Al.
The bad thing is that I also know people like Asp9 mm