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The statement about the number of posters due to the small population is absurd.

Australia has always been one of the biggest cinema-going countries in the world.
It regularly does 10-15% of the US box office on major films, occasionally more with blockbusters
like TITANIC etc.

WW2 (1939-45) created paper shortages in terms of the number of overall posters printed, especially one
sheets (they could put 3 x 13x30 inch daybills across a 30x40 inch standard sheet of paper and so the number
of one sheets during and immediately after the war years saw a cut back in the number of one sheets
produced and the number of daybills.

One must also factor in WW2 paper drives and, more importantly that many suburban and country theatres
used to always run double features and often change programmes twice a week, sometimes three times a week and
virtually all had children's programmes (kid's matinees) on Saturday afternoon.

Theatres either sent on the posters with the film to to the next booking (usually by rail) folded up in the film trunk, or posted.
I've seen daybills folded up to large letter size, a bit of browning sellotape holding it together and the address of the cinema
written on the outside.... OR.... theatres hung on to the posters because they would know that at some stage they would be re-booking the film
and it saved them having to re-purchase a new poster (if still in print or replaced as a duotone version) from the distributor.

These listings have more to do with the 5 free listings eBay is giving out at the moment, so you can list a highly priced item at no cost.
If someone comes along and buys it, then fine. They might also wait until after the listing is ended and make an offer off eBay. It's like free
advertising and many dealers use it this way... especially those who have little knowledge of what it is they are selling and what it might really
be worth.

NSF and MOPO is a bit of a rarified atmosphere as many folks here do know about posters, and those that don't often (publicly or privately) as
another member/s if what they are looking at is worth it, real or fake, or whatever.

While in the outside the world of serious collecting is a LOT of people who really have no idea or even great interest in what they sell.