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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 07 Oct 2021, 02:26 
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Laserbite, had a contact with him on FB recently, he's still lost it, even worse now I feel.
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 07 Oct 2021, 03:07 
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(thread moved to the "Laserdisc" topic to avoid auto-pruning)
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 08 Oct 2021, 23:33 
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gypsy wrote:
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Please don't ever let this thread die :lol:



This was the best thing that ever happened on this forum. Even beats Cararte’s bring the LD production back on dream.


Other hits include: tripletopper surround sound headphone threads, the English guy (username is eluding me atm) that totally lost it

Haha I forgot about the surround sound headphone guy! What the hell was he going on about :lol:
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 12 Oct 2021, 01:28 
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gypsy wrote:
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pokefraker wrote:
Please don't ever let this thread die :lol:



This was the best thing that ever happened on this forum. Even beats Cararte’s bring the LD production back on dream.


Other hits include: tripletopper surround sound headphone threads, the English guy (username is eluding me atm) that totally lost it


I would love to read the thread but I can't find it. Is the thread archived or has it been deleted?
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 12 Oct 2021, 03:07 
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He didn’t have a “singular” thread.

But you can find everything here…..

https://forum.lddb.com/search.php?autho ... 8&sr=posts

Just have to sift through quite a bit
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 12 Oct 2021, 16:37 
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ldfan wrote:
He didn’t have a “singular” thread.

But you can find everything here…..

https://forum.lddb.com/search.php?autho ... 8&sr=posts

Just have to sift through quite a bit

I'm enjoying this one that starts as "CRTs for laserdisc?" and devolves into Street Fighter II posturing. https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8281&start=60

As for this thread, I don't have the money for it, but I'll wager my collection against it over a game of Smash Bros. Melee!
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 04 Mar 2023, 15:47 
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OK I got a message and was looking at my past messages and forgot about this topic.
What ever happened to our OP, now that everybody is buying like mad dogs.
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 04 Mar 2023, 18:40 
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Something tells me he is still $125k short to complete the sale
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 04 Mar 2023, 19:04 
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rein-o wrote:
OK I got a message and was looking at my past messages and forgot about this topic.
What ever happened to our OP, now that everybody is buying like mad dogs.

He should have every title in his collection graded, that is sure to increase it's value!
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 11 Mar 2023, 00:57 
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It was interesting to skim back over this thread since it came up again. I think the best thing besides the last call price drop was the citing of millennial inheritance. Even with people coming into money, why would they care about LD? You only need one of course but still. If the OP did have an intent to sell (I think they did, but it's debatable) then I hope they got the ball rolling in some way. It was never going to happen in one shot. It would be unfortunate for the collection to become an inheritance burden, or hauled to the dump but I think those are the two most likely fates. You can very reasonably sell individually though. I will say I've been pleasantly surprised since opening a seller account here a little less than a year ago. I priced things aggressively of course but I have sold through more than I expected to in this time span and have had multiple repeat customers. I'd think that with such a collection they would get at least a similar percentage of traction going on sales which would be a lot of sales. It is a lot of work and I even had to buy shipping boxes from uline eventually but I would rather get the stuff I don't mind selling into the hands of people that would enjoy it vs just having it trashed (I also think a thrift store here would trash/refuse them if I tried to donate).
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 12 Mar 2023, 22:52 
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A lot of people really buy into the “jackpot” idea combined with, “hey you never know…” vibes keeping people dreaming.

When my LD collection gets parted out I’m ONLY concerned with it going to a loving home, if that’s even possible. The idea that my dumb hobby would somehow pay a dividend is a depressing dream not worth believing in.
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 20 Jul 2023, 17:52 
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Wow, its been almost 2 years.
Lots of crazy stuff happening and happened.

I've been seeing NFTs selling in the past for stupid money now they are re-selling for very little to no money.
Guess his "millennial inheritance" and bitcoin mad money is all gone now.
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 20 Jul 2023, 20:16 
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Yeah, if anything can be so broadly stated, millennials are broke thanks prior generations. I have no idea where that rumor started about them being rich. What kind of an asshat refers to people with that kind of terminology anyway? “Millennial”, ridiculous. The Prince and the Pauper are the same age…

Man, two years…of near constant regret! I bet someone bought it for $125k and flipped it for TWICE that. We were fools!
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 26 Sep 2023, 15:06 
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Wow, what a ride. I’m new to LD collecting but am a longtime collector of other stuff and this asking price is aggressive to say the least. OP says 2,000 of 3,800 are common, so that’s maybe $5 a piece, full retail on a good day. That leaves 1,800 discs that have an average cost of around $60 a piece?!? And that’s just asking price. Presumably they feel the collection is worth more than that.

I hope they were able to part with the collection in a way that was satisfying to them. Even though a lot of us say we’re not going to sell our collection, everyone should have an exit strategy as we are inevitably going to die and don’t want our families left taking care of our crap. OP should take take Julien’s advice from early on the thread on how to sell this or even spend retirement individually selling the LD starting with most expensive to least (that’s how I plan to spend my retirement). If OP passes before they take care of the collection, it’s either going to sell for peanuts or someone’s hauling it to the dump.
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 26 Sep 2023, 16:48 
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Thank you Dugan for bringing this topic back to light.
Someone posted about a collection for sale recently and I thought about this topic, don't want it to go to waste.

There are some titles that for some reason are selling stupid high now, just messages about a Killer Klows from outer space, why is it selling for over 300
on a regular basis.
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PostPosted: 26 Sep 2023, 22:27 
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rein-o wrote:
There are some titles that for some reason are selling stupid high now, just messages about a Killer Klows from outer space, why is it selling for over 300
on a regular basis.


The Arrow Blu-Ray copy of Killer Klowns is expensive now that it is OOP, whereas it was pretty common and cheap while in-print. The DVD is very common. I dont know why media collectors suddenly started focusing on this title!
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 28 Sep 2023, 19:04 
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I almost never sell blu-rays but I got $580 for a couple titles I sold recently. At a certain point things can become worth more to me than having the item. Plus I can rip them first. :D
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 02 Oct 2023, 02:07 
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Update:A physical count revealed that there were actually 3,818 laserdiscs in my collection. I have been selling them, individually, since October 2021. Thus far, 1,380 have been sold, which is 36% of the collection. An average of 58 sales per month. Gross sales have been $47,659, which averages out to $34.53 per title. A total of 90 have sold for between $100 - $1,000 apiece, and 3 (the Hong Kong "Song of the South," The 6th Day, and Stigmata) have sold for more than $1,000 apiece. Eric
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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 02 Oct 2023, 02:49 
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So in the end you followed our advice to split and sell individually?

Great to hear!

Since the best titles will mostly sell first, I would assume the first 1/3rd around $35 average (but some high titles shifting the average up) then the next 1/3rd around $15 and the remainder around $5 putting the collection around $72K. To sell as a lot of this magnitude, the right price was probably around $50K+.

At $125K, it was never going to happen.

But you should list them here as well.
eBay will gladly take 20% fees and more obscure titles have a better chance to find a new home here.

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 Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000
PostPosted: 02 Oct 2023, 14:18 
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No, Julien, your assumptions have not been the selling pattern I have experienced. A great many of my cheaper and mid-range laserdiscs have sold in the past two years and there are plenty of higher-priced titles that remain unsold. I still have 275 lds that I have fairly priced in the $100 - $1,500 range, three times the number of discs within that price range that have sold. In my judgment, it would be eminently fair to extrapolate the average selling price of $34.53 I have realized thus far to the full collection of 3,818, which results in a gross value of $131,835. I originally asked for $125,000 - later reduced to $100,000 - which was quite reasonable. I am a retired accountant and have a good understanding of numbers and values. I have my faults, but I am not delusional. I always knew it was extremely unlikely that someone would have the financial means and desire to spend $125,000, or even $100,000, on a collection of laserdiscs, but in case there was such a person on this Forum, I wanted to give them the opportunity to buy, prior to my selling them one-by-one. Eric
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