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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:30 am Post subject: Re: A factory sealed copy of "The thing" just sold |
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That's perplexing! That price is higher than some of the CED players originally sold for brand new back in the 1980s! It also sets a new record for the highest price of a standard consumer retail CED title, beating the previous record of $211.00 for Rocky Championship Collection back in 1998.
On a related note, CEDs & CED players are difficult to appraise, since they really have no firm dollar value; clearly, whoever participated in this auction valued the disc at that price, and they obviously could afford it. I think I also remember seeing that worn-out Teen Wolf disc selling for that price not too long ago. Collector interest in the CED hobby is back again!
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I had only noticed because I won another auction from that seller for a sealed copy of Friday the 13th part 4, the final chapter. Luckily that one kept under 100! lol. It now arrived and I'm just as unsure if it's a factory seal as I was at the auction (I asked for and received more photos) as there appears to be two spots on the back of the label with two peels of the label, yet the cellophane remains in tact. Regardless, it's a super clean label overall and it's been years waiting for a clean one to come up so I put a max bid of $125 on it and got it for a bit over 90. Just came today, so I haven't photographed and entered it into my collection yet.
About that Teen wolf. The same seller of that $200 one, posted up another copy right after that auction ended and I scored the cleaner copy that's in my collection for right around $100 also.
Some of these are RARE man. You've got to pay if you want these hard to find ones, especially with clean labels. When I say rare, I mean these days, with what comes up for sale online where their sold most often. I've yet to even see some that I've had on my list even come up for sale yet after a couple years looking.
Footloose, the goonies, they come up once in a while but I've yet to see a clean copy.
Enemy mine. Haven't even seen this one come up for sale yet.
Still on the hunt for a real clean copy of Blade Runner and Friday the 13th part 3 and about a dozen or so more.
Today it seems like so many are already in collections and not being sold that's making so many of them "rare" these days. "Rarely traded" is probably a better term, cus I know there's got to be loads of clean copies of The goonies for example but fellow Gen X'ers already scoffed those up years ago and they ain't sharing! 
The list is shrinking, but the hunt continues.
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I don't know what's going on with this particular movie. Another copy just sold for well over 2 bills; $270 on ebay. What the heck? It doesn't even have a clean enough label I would consider for my near mint label collection.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403807646929
It's not even a rare movie on the format! It's by far nowhere near the rarest of the Carpenter movies. Does anyone understand this ebay phenomenon?
Don't get me wrong, it's my favorite John Carpenter movie, not just on CED but of them all. But what the heck? No ones paying these kind of prices because they want to watch it on an outdated SD format that skips and jumps. Only collectors are paying these kind of bucks. Are they just not researching at all before supporting these prices?
I mean, I get the sealed copy. I wouldn't have payed that much but I get it. Just a random, run of the mill, copy though for well over $200? Doesn't make sense.
I payed $25 bucks for my clean copy and I only payed that much because of such a clean label.
I payed even less for 1986's Black moon rising! Now, that's a rare one! Granted, that was more than likely a ebayer who just found some "old ced's" and didn't bother researching them individually, probably from a mass estate sale but I'm just saying. If people think the thing is so valuable, they're crazy. It's for sale all the time. It's not a hard movie to collect. I just don't get it.
I literally just had to pay this kind of money for a disc that wasn't even made in mass for public distribution; the "Thanks for the memories", disc! They're shelling out this kind of coin for a poor label of the thing?
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