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pokefraker
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 08 Oct 2021, 23:33 |
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gypsy wrote: substance wrote: pokefraker wrote: Please don't ever let this thread die 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
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la2019
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 12 Oct 2021, 01:28 |
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gypsy wrote: substance wrote: pokefraker wrote: Please don't ever let this thread die 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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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 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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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 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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mrdugan
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 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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mrdugan
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 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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ericeide
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 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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ericeide
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Post subject: Re: Major Collection For Sale - 3,773 Titles - $125,000 Posted: 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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