CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[TheLaserdisc]

With the people asking if they got a good deal on CEDs, don't you think we should come up with a CED price guide based on rarity and a mean price that people are spotting the discs at?
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[Alchemy]

Price guides are always just that 'a guide/ an opinion' The real truth is whatever you can sell it for is what it's worth. To me the discs are worth between 0 and $3 a piece. Yes the Alignment disc and Aloha conference type of thing where it was a closed distribution should command a real amount, but that # is anyone's guess.

Take for example my wife's watch- appraised value of $2500 +/-, I would never have bought it at that price, but I was willing to pay the $350 for it.....
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Scott
SGT-200, CLD-79
http://bcw.utnij.net <--- CED/LD collection

[TheLaserdisc]

I was thinking more along the lines to ward off people selling incredibly common discs for outlandish prices by claiming they are super rare or something.
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[Jesse Skeen]

It would be neat to have a list of prices discs have actually sold for- not when someone asks $200 for a disc and nobody buys it, but when someone actually bids and pays that much.
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[Beetlescott]

I put 2 discs on ebay for the exact same amount, 5.00 I think. One sold for 7.00, the other one for 32.00. What do you have in mind? A dollar amount based on if it is common or extremely rare? A.J.s Recyclery has a really nice variety of common to extremely rare. His price range is pretty good too.

http://stores.ebay.com/A-Jays-Video-Recyclery/_i.html?_fsub=281999010
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[Jesse Skeen]

What CED did you sell for $32?
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Videodisc and stereo sound- there's no better value around!

[Beetlescott]

Friday the 13th There was a bidding war that went on. Now I could put another copy of the same CED on there tomorrow and it might not even sell. Timing is everything!
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[saskatoonguy]

Why have a guide? They are all completely worthless and most aren't worth the weight to throw them out. They are only worth what somebody is willing to pay for them. I have bought a $15 CED (Pink Floyd Live @ Pompeii, because I know you're wondering) because I wanted it, I am sure I could have held out or looked harder for a $5 one but it was worth it for me. Compare that to the 700 I bought for $100. One man's trash....

[blindfury420]

still ridiculously jealous about that saksatoon 700 for $100 burns me britches, but no joke... good for you!
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[Real1shepherd]

I think a price structure of value from ebay is counterproductive. ebay is only worthy of use if you're searching for something rare, or you're completing a collection. It's NOT the place to put together a collection.

Finding collections on craigslist, Goodwill and garage/rummage sales represents a more realistic market value. But then every time somebody 'gives' a collection away, if you do averages, it brings down the market price. The general price right now seems to be $.50-$1 ea for lots.

Still looking for that big, 'free' lot.....

Kevin

[7jlong]

eBay is the biggest example of "caveat emptor" that the world ever did see.

A price guide would be irrelevant to most of the people who post these crazy prices. They wouldn't bother looking at it, and if they did, likely wouldn't agree. What was that again about "there's a sucker born every minute"?

Coupled with the fact that many times the base auction price is actually particularly low - the bidders run the price up. You can't fault someone for starting an auction at $.99 and then reaping the rewards of a bidding frenzy that drives the final price tag through the roof. Beetlescott has it right - timing is absolutely everything.

I think taking a fresh look at Tom's rarity guide might be worth the effort, but the value of discs varies too much to pin down. Often it's in the eye of the beholder, and you'd have to factor in the folks who don't have a player or care about CED but rather the subject of the disc (Star Wars fans, Pink Floyd fans, etc)

There is also the number crunching involved - I for one would not want to take responsibility for data collection and analysis for 1700 movie titles, but if someone else wants to, can't say I'd stop them! On the other hand, if a draft of the guide were published I guarantee there'd be an endless stream of "On Golden Pond? Worth $5? Are you crazy? That was one of the most common titles ever!" and similar. I don't think many firm, final decisions would come of it.

[Real1shepherd]

Agreed. It's even beyond supply & demand. More like a subjective thing in movie tastes. I'm certainly not going to collect CED movies for the sake of collecting movies. I really want movies that interest me and something I will watch; which will invariably exclude movies like Smokey and The Bandit et al. As I said before, many movies made in the late 70's-80's were very bad-a period not known for artistic expansion in either cinema or music.

Kevin

[PaulSOCW]

[Real1shepherd]

Interestingly....I don't have On Golden Pond yet. I do have at least one copy of Barbarella though and a copy of The Jane Fonda Workout...

When you bought your player back in the day, you were given a choice of at least one movie...there were four or five to choose from if I remember correctly. I think I picked Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan or The Empire Strikes Back. They were both my very first CED movies which I still have. Then I rented for a yr or so...RCA dumped and I jumped on Beta.

Kevin

[PaulSOCW]