Hi All, I'm looking for advice as to the best way of selling a library of LD's. My future mother in law has no need for them any more but none of us know how to go about selling the collection. So any advice as to the best way to go about doing this would be massively welcome!

Thanks in advance.

Ross

You're probably better off selling them piece by piece, or in small groups, rather than as a single lot. Grouping by genre is a good idea ; for example, there are folks like me who are chiefly interested in Japanese animation, others who want music titles, &c. Also, since many titles exist in multiple editions, you would be well advised to obtain details of each one ; at a minimum, the catalog number, so interested parties can look them up on LDDb. Wishlist & sold prices information may also give you an idea of which ones are particularly desirable. Those you can either sell on their own, to realize the best price, or note in groups to have the best chance of moving them. There are people who will buy a whole group to get one specific disc.

I am one of those people. I have bought 50 discs for one, lol. I am working on the greatest collection of Jurassic Park and Aliens.

Thanks Publius, that's great advice! I guess my next natural question is where to sell, or at least where to advertise. eBay is the most obvious place but is there anywhere more specialised?

If you sell them one by one you will make more money. However, you will spend considerable time with packing, shipping, listing, etc. I don't know how many disks you have but I just bought a lot of almost 300 disks. Yes, I got a good deal per disc, but at least the seller didn't have to go through listing 300 discs on ebay. I can't imagine how much time and effort it would take to list so many discs. I think it's a matter of how much money your looking for, how much effort you want to put into listing it, and how badly you want to get rid of all the disks.

Well invenio we're talking about a collection of 200+ discs so what I'm trying to do is see if there are any particularly valuable ones and separating them out from the rest before offering them as a group as previously suggested. I just need to know where the best marketplace is I guess.

If you have the time, look at completed ebay listings for each title to see what they have sold for. That should give you a pretty good idea of what they are worth in the marketplace. As said above, music, opera, animation, and some classic films do have value, but most of the big mainstream movies from the 80's & 90's do not. If all else fails, ask us here.

Thanks ratkins, good to know that the community here are so helpful and quick to respond

What you may want to do is put up a listing of all 200+ LD's and then do one of those "pick 5 from the list" for X amount of dollars. this way you don't have to go thru the trouble of listing multiple auctions and you can always just edit the description list to remove the ones that are sold. Just a suggestions.

Well one thing is for certain, I'm going to be looking at a lot of spines in the very near future!

If you have any music titles in your collection which you wish to sell, just send me a brief email with the titles.
Any I am still looking for which are in excellent+ condition I will make you a generous offer and it is up to you if you wish to proceed.

You are one the more specialised website.
Why not try to open a seller account on LDDB.com and start listing what you have ?
If you're not in a hurry, it could be a very good solution: Look here

Just as I though takou. I did look at opening a seller account but the idea is just to sell everything quick and fast instead of filling in 200+ titles. Speaking of which...


1984 ID6236IV
12 Monkeys 42785
20 Million Miles to Earth PSE91-07
2001: A Space Odyssey 60A (Crit)
2010: The Year We Make Contact ML101661
3 Days of the Condor LV8803-WS
Abyss, The 0896885
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls 23500 Minor marks on sleeve
Addams Family Values, The LV 32806-ws
Addams Family, The LV-32689-WS
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai IDVL5056
Alien 8760-85
Alien 3 5593-85
Aliens 8761-85
Amadeus LV1791
Andromeda Strain 13001
Apocalypse Now LV 2306-2WS
Apollo 13 42580
Arrival, The LD60259-WS
Babe 42692
Back to the Future 41056 slight tear on sleeve
Back to the Future Part II 40965
Back to the Future Part III 40980
Backdraft 41131
Barbarella - Queen of the Galaxy LV6812
Basic Instinct PSE93-33
Basic Instinct - Director's Cut LD69015WS
Batman 12000 A/B Slight damage to sleeve
Batman Forever 15100
Batman Returns 15000
Big Trouble in Little China 1502-80
Birdcage, The ML105536
Blade Runner 69 (crit)
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut 12682
Body Heat 20005LV
Body Snatchers 13027
Braveheart LV33118-2WS
Broken Blossoms LV20444
Cape Fear 41263
Carlito's Way 41891
Casablanca 73A (Crit)
Casino 42782
Casper 42571
Cat People 11014
Cat People - Extended Play 233 (Crit)
Chinatown LV 8674-2WS
Citizen Kane 142A (Crit)
Clear and Present Danger LV 32463-2WS
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 125A (crit)
Cocoon 0147685
Conan The Barbarian 41018
Crimson Tide 5255 AS
Day the Earth Stood Still, The 1011-80
Dead Ringers ID6387ME
Death Becomes Her 41424
Deer Hunter, The 40945
Die Hard 1666-80
Die Hard 2 1850-85
Dr. NO 124A (Crit)
Dr. Strangelove VLD3134
Dracula - Bram Stoker's 53436
Dreams 11911 A/B
Dune 40161
E.T. 13009
Ed Wood 2758 AS
Escape from L.A. LV33249-WS
Excalibur 22018 A/B
Executive Decision 14211
Fail Safe VLD3152
Fantasia 1132 AS
First Men in the Moon PSE91-11
Fisher King, The 149 (Crit) Still wrapped but damage to corner
Forbidden Planet ML102321
Forrest Gump LV 32583-2WS
French Connection, The 0100985
From Russia with Love 131A (Crit)
From Russia With Love 131A (Crit)
Fugitive, The 21000
Full Metal Jacket 11760
Gallipoli LV 1504-WS
Get Shorty ML105493
Ghostbusters 75A (Criterion)
Godfather, The - Collector's Edition LV12959-7 Slight damage to outside
Golden Eye ML105544
Goldfinger 132A (Crit)
Goodfellas 12039
Great Escape, The 95 (criterion)
Hamlet 12200
Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The 1334 AS
Heat 14192
Hellfighters 41116
High Plains Drifter 14002
Highlander LV25892
Highlander - Director's Cut 25895
Highlander - The Final Dimension 3619 AS
Hobson's Choice 259 (crit) Wrapped
Home Alone 1866-85
Hook 70606
Hunger, The ML102216
In-Laws, The 1009
Independence Day 0411885
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade LV31859-2L
Innocent Blood 12570
Interview with the Vampire 13176 Minor wear to sleeve
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 8A (Crit)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The ID3551LI Minor wear to sleeve
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Delux Letter-box Edition ML102194
Jacob's Ladder ID8239IV
Jason and the Argonauts 160 (Crit)
JFK 12306
Judge Dredd 5261 AS
Jumanji 11746
Jurassic Park 41829
Keep, The LV 1563-WS
Killing, The 64 (Crit)
King Kong 2 (Crit)
Lawnmower Man, The 75896
Lawrence of Arabia 78A
Lethal Weapon 3 12475
Lolita 103 (Crit)
Louvre Video Disc - Part 1 Painting Drawing V1020L
Man Who Would Be King, The 7435-80
Man with two Brains, The 11319LV
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 78716
Mission: Impossible LV31899-2WS
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 168 (Crit)
Monty Python's the Meaning of Life 16031
Mortal Kombat ID3021LI Slight damage to sleeve
Mrs. Doubtfire 8588-85
My Blue Heaven 12003
Name of the Rose, The 13426 Slight damage to sleeve
Neverending Story, The 12239
Night at the Opera, A 31A (crit)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The 2236AS
Notorious 100A (Crit) Minor marks on sleeve
Omen, The 1079-85
Outbreak 13632
Outer Limits, The - Volume 3 ML104707
Outer Limits, The - Volume 4 ML105143
Outland 12224
Patriot Games LV 32530-WS
Pelican Brief, The 12989
Peter Pan ID7810GT
Pinocchio 239 AS
Platoon PSE-95-59WS
Predator 1515-85
Princess Bride, The 40A (Crit)
Producers, The 36 (Crit)
Pulp Fiction 3614 AS
Raging Bull 120A (Crit)
Raiders of the Lost Ark LV 1376-WS
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Extended Play LV 1376
Right Stuff, The 20027
Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves 14000
Rock, The 8887 AS
Rocketeer, The 1239 AS
Rumble Fish 41786 Wrapped
S.O.B. (Blake Edwards') 699 A/B
Sanjuro 218 (Crit) Wrapped
Scarface 41473
Schindler's List 41927
Searchers, The 12235
Seven Samurai 67A (Criterion)
Shawshank Redemption, The 74596
Silence of the Lambs, The ID7434OR
Silverado 118A
Slaughter House Five 42577
Smoke 6315 AS
Sneakers 41431
Some Like it Hot 74A (crit)
Soylent Green ml102574
Spartacus 155 (crit)
Species ml105208
Speed 8638-85
Splash 7467 as
Star Trek Generations LV 32988-2WS
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan LV 1180
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Widescreen Edition) LV1180-WS
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock LV1621-WS
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home LV12883-2WS
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier LV32044-WS
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country LV32301-WS
Star Trek: The Motion Picture LV8858-2WS
Star Wars 8763-85
Star Wars (1989) 1130-85
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 8765-85
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1478-85
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 8764-85
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 1425-85
Stargate - Deluxe Edition LD60213
Stargate - Widescreen Edition LD60190-ws
Striptease 84976
Ten Commandments, The LV12971-3WS
Terminal Velocity 3461 AS
Terminator 2: Judgment Day LD68952-2WS
Terminator, The ID2940NSB
Thief ID6468MG
Thing from another World, The ID6996TU
Thing, The 40946
Throne of Blood 239 (Criterion) Wrapped
Time Bandits LV 2310-WS
Time Machine, The (Original) ML102566
Top Gun LV 1692-WS
Total Recall ID7779IV
Toy Story 6703 AS
True Lies 8640-85
Twister 20103
Unbearable Lightness of Being ID6257OR
Under Siege 2 13665
Video Standard, A - Demo Disc LD-101
Waterworld 42680
Wayne's World LV 32706-WS
West Side Story 72A (Crit)
Wizard of Oz, The ML105204
Yojimbo 105 (Criterion)
Zardoz 1208-80


I know this isn't the prettiest way of presenting the info and if anyone would like a spreadsheet then I can email it. I'd also like to know if there's anything I should get really excited about... I was told that "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" might be worth something as might "From Russia With Love" (both of them) and the Louvre set, the demo disc and most of "The Keep". But am I wrong to think that?

Sorry for being such a novice.

Looking through it quickly there isnt anything super amazing at first glance. There are however a few things from 10 to 20 bucks. Look through the prices here and go from there. It only takes a little while. The box sets are pretty decent. Just list a couple and see what happens. Another thing you can do is list 25 of them for 50 dollars with free shipping. You are getting a buck for the yard trash and you are getting rid of them. Believe me, no one wants another copy of Jurassic Park or Aliens. You cant actually sell that to someone, you have to give it to them so the curse passes to them.

The Keep is worth 60 to 100 dollars depending on the day!!!

Mostly movies. From what I've seen on Ebay it ain't worth squat. Sorry, probably better selling as an entire collection. Better yet sell them locally on craigslist for one price, total about a buck each. That way the shipping won't be a problem, pick up only. If that don't work give them to the salvation army.
Elvis

P.S. All depends on the condition, you don't want to get caught up in that mess on Ebay if you don't know what your doing. Also depends on what your time is worth (Obviously you got alot into it already making that list). Try selling those few key ones on Ebay. The rest, I would dump em.

Pull out the Keep. That is some decent money. Look over the other stuff, anything that has sold for over 10 bucks or 20 bucks, pull out and sell, the rest is yard trash. Sell it as a lot or as I said.

Thanks for the advice everyone, looks like I'm in the right ballpark. I was thinking a job lot but they're only worth what someone is willing to pay for them I guess.

I don't even collect movies on laserdisc and even I have Jurassic Park and Aliens!