HYEE up and running on ebay
 

Now that's how u do it, start all your stuff off at .99 and watch it all move! Nice job HYEE

Agreed...class my a$$...sell your pieces rather than hold them randsom. Well done Henry. You will outsell all the BINers.

Agreed but the point is that most all of the BINers don't care.

Link??

For one thing, most of the BINers are selling their own stuff...

Regardless, thanks for the heads up on Yee's latest auction. Always a pleasure to window shop :p

Wow, some incredible images in there.

Hyee
 

always top drawer!!!
also incredibly helpful with any questions about his items or any other items
one needs help with.
best of luck,henry
barry

I don't think they are interested in bringing any common sense to their logic. It's pretty easy to sell another persons items for whatever they end at. Not trying to discount Hyee auctions as they have very fine items with high quality images, I am speaking in general.

Easy, but particularly effective. He always seems to get top $$$ by attracting a high # of bidders and the low starting price contributes largely to that interest.

The low starting price saves him money...he's saving 15 cents per listing by starting them at 99 cents instead of $9.99. He knows with his clientele that every single item is going to sell and it's going to sell well so why not save some money. Jonsstats does this too...smart businessmen.

I think that's the key. The saving money on listing fees might have been a factor before as well, but since May 1, it costs the same to list a 99-cent item as it does a $99k item at auction. Also, since Yee adds a subtitle for all or nearly all of his auction listings (which costs more than the listing itself, despite subtitles not being searchable), I don't think up-front listing fees are so much of a factor compared to the problem of having "leftovers" when you only run 3-4 auctions a year. Easier to list everything at a price guaranteed to sell, clean house, then start over for the next auction.

I have always looked forward to Yee's auctions. I dabble in vintage baseball photos compared to many others here my photo collection is very pedestrian. Nonetheless, I enjoy window shopping Yee's offerings despite never being a realistic threat to land a significant photo. However, I must admit that I find a number of his current items a bit macabre. Do others truly collect images depicting crime scenes, birth defects,survivors of the holocaust, and burn victims from Hiroshima? I have to admit that such items have served to dampen my zeal as I search through this current auction. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive or conservative but I find such things to be in poor taste and offensive. I think I will stick with innocuous pretty baseball pictures. Thankfully he still has a nice selection of those.

I authenticated the Bonnie and Clyde autopsy photos for an auction house. Graphic. The auction house didn't tell me the contents of the photos beforehand.

They later sent me a particularly gruesome morgue photo of JFK, with a large portion of the skull loose. That one was pretty rough.

I wasn't morally offended by them, as they were historical topics, plus it's not up to me to tell others what to collect. I would have no interest in purchasing them.

Browsing Henry's auction, I think many of the war photos are quite powerful. War isn't pretty.

There's a photo of a stock broker who killed himself with a knife. But how are you able to stab yourself in the back of the neck?

Those photos are in very poor taste, especially in a SPORTS auction..Surprises me in a few ways.

I thought Hyee was a photo auction? Not just sports. It's part of history.

e-mail?
 

I the past I think that I received e-mails from Henry when the auctions were going to take place? Did anyone get any e-mails this time? I consigned some items to the last auction and was surprised that I didn't get any e-mails asking for consignments this time. Did anyone get any consignment requests from Henry?

I don't know, but I suspect that many of the winners of those types of photos are specialists and historians in that particular area. Of course being a historian and a collector can go hand in hand.

My neighbor is Jewish and a cataloger for the local Holocaust Museum, and she handles a fair amount of Nazi memorabilia for them.

For some odd reason, I haven't heard from Henry in about 12 years; however, he and Leon have a business arrangement and I have gotten at least one email from Leon regarding Henry's auctions - it was quite a while back. I haven't far enough into any of them to determine if they were looking for consignments or just selling stuff.

Yee has always had a strong focus on sports photos, but not limited himself to JUST sports photos. Look through his previous auction offerings and you'll see plenty of political / entertainment / non-sports photos as well as various other memorabilia, so not even just PHOTOS. Clearly, sports photos (and in particular baseball) is what he's known for, but that doesn't mean that he can't sell other types of photos.

And at least he gives each photo its due consideration and thoughtful write-up, as opposed to other sellers blowing out various newspapers' archives where you're lucky to get a title with the subject's name spelled correctly, let alone something resembling a decent description. Compared to them, Yee's offering of these photos is tantamount to a full state funeral as opposed the dumping of a body in a pauper's grave (with the deceased's name misspelled on the marker).

Henry and I have a very good rapport but we don't speak very often. In his last auction he purchased an email blast through our Net54baseball database. He and I haven't communicated since then, except for once. I haven't seen any emails from him either, concerning this auction.

Okay, I thought he was going to start advertising here.

I really enjoy these Hyee threads. You learn a lot reading them.

Ironically Henry just called me. He really is fun to speak with. I mentioned about the photos that might offend some and he understands that. He said a lot of people don't believe things happened and photos are one way to prove they did. He hopes he doesn't offend anyone though and that certainly is not his intention.
Also, you will see a Net54baseball email blast from him soon...and probably an advertising thread on the front page of the forum also.

I have known Henry a long time and I do know in the end he wasn't trying to offend people. They just seem tasteless and out of place with his great Sports photos.

Still, they do have a demand, and its not exploitive by him.

Hey, some of us like those poorly listed offerings. Saves a lot of money. :D

I have sold and consigned tons of stuff to Henry over the years. At the National, he picked out some things from my setup, and then I showed him a fabulous photo album from the 1936 Olympics I had just picked up, some 120 snapshots taken by a British guy attending the Olympics. Henry turned it down on the basis of the Nazi connection, photos of streets lined with swastikas and several of Hitler in the stands. When I bought it, I had only thought of the photos of Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, and the rest. After that, it seemed a little dirty to me, and I blew it out for what I paid for it at the earliest opportunity. This is just to prove that Henry is not insensitive to the content of his goods. I'm a huge Henry Yee fan, he's just such a positive force in the hobby.

I implied as much before, but I have no problem with the photos. The photos are of history, and history is good and bad.

That doesn't mean I would buy many of them. But I see nothing wrong with them being offered.

My usual objection is all the Yankees stuff.

:D Agreed, but then some of us are too lazy and/or forgetful to check certain sellers' listings daily, and lay awake at night wondering what my our saved searches have missed...

Guess I can't have it both ways :p