Poster Profit
Pinupcalendar has come up with a brilliant idea for what should be a very lucrative venture.
A day or two ago, she read a newspaper article that said that old movie posters are selling for huge sums. Pinupcalendar learned that an original poster from the 1931 film Dracula, with Bela Lugosi, recently sold for $310,700 (US). And, in an unrelated sale, a poster from the 1954 Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn film, Sabrina, sold for $15,480 (US).
Hmm … A poster for a movie about a blood-sucking vampire (sounds a lot like most Shalampaxians; rhetorically speaking, of course) is worth a little over 20 times more than a poster for a love story about two wealthy brothers—one a playboy and one a hard-worker—and a chauffeur’s daughter. Who knew? Maybe Paperplate should start selling posters in the Shalampax Flag Store and the Shalampax Coat of Arms store. We’re more sinister than vampires. But, I digress.
This looks to Pinupcalendar like an obvious opportunity. She has invested in a high-quality, large-format laser printer and a supply of the same type of paper stock that was used in old movie posters, along with a large quantity of cheaper paper.
Even as we speak, Pinupcalendar is busy creating reproductions of classic movie posters. Those produced on traditional movie poster paper stock will be printed in quantities of only two or three per year for each film. Pinupcalendar will then “age” those posters slightly to make them indistinguishable from an original movie poster that was kept in mint condition.
Pinupcalendar plans to sell these posters at prices slightly less than what the real thing is selling for at open auctions. However, so as to not raise suspicion and to not cut too deeply into her profit margins, she will undercut those prices only slightly.
The cheaper paper stock will be used to mass produce classic and contemporary movie posters that are in high demand. So as to not hurt her sales of “original” posters, Pinupcalendar will clearly label these as replicas and sell them at mass-market prices.
Keeping with Shalampaxian tradition, Pinupcalendar will not be paying royalties to the holders of the copyrights on the posters.
You go, girl!
