CED Digest Vol. 4 No. 23

CED Digest Vol. 4 No. 23 • 6/12/1999
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 15:09:57 -0700
From: "Tom howe" <howet@ohsu.edu>
To: digest@cedmagic.com
Subject: RE: CED Appraising

>With all of this great CED stuff out there who can say how much it is worth.
>Does anyone know of an appraiser of this sort of stuff.

I was in the Tigard, Oregon Goodwill today and they had about 15 CED's in the
glass display case. "Star Wars" was priced at $69.99 and the remaining discs
were $39.99 each, so you could get "The Stunt Man" for the bargain price of $79.98.
As anybody who tracks CED's on Ebay will know, these are grossly over inflated
prices, and I expect to still see those discs sitting there when I visit that
store again in a month or so. The following URL will show a list of most of the
recently completed CED auctions on Ebay:

http://search-completed.ebay.com/cgi-bin/texis/ebaycomplete/results.html?dest=
&cobrandpartner=x&ht=&maxRecordsPerPage=200&query=%28selectavision%2Cced%2C
videodisc%29&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&SortOrder=%5Ba%5D

Looking through the listing, the average price a CED goes for at auction is around
$3, and there are a lot of auctions in which no one bids, even a few with $1 starting
bids. Figuring shipping into the value of the disc, I'd say $5 is a good estimate for
the value of a typical CED. Condition and Rarity don't seem to have much of a role in
value at this point in time except for the very rare stuff. With over 20 million discs
having been pressed and a comparatively small pool of collector's, it's still a buyer's
market.

--Tom

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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 15:01:31 -0700
From: Lorraine Urfer
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Subscribe CED Digest

We have over 100 CED movies and specials for sale.  As well as a couple
of players (non-working).  How can we get in touch with someone from
this area (SF Bay, northern Calif)?
L. Urfer
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