Where to sell LDs?

100proof

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Going through my shit and found a 25+ year old box of Laserdiscs. Most of it's pretty common stuff and none of it's in anal retentive collector condition but there are a couple of big-ticket items in there including one I haven't been able to find a real price for it's so rare.

Looking for suggestions for how to get rid of them that aren't eBay, Facebook marketplace or a pawn shop.
 

terry.330

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Looking for suggestions for how to get rid of them that aren't eBay, Facebook marketplace or a pawn shop.
Those are pretty much the only options. I’d take the rare ones and throw them on eBay with a best offer option and list the rest in a lot on FB.
 

terry.330

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LDDB is a waste of time if a majority are common titles, plus you still have to pack and ship everything. Packing material could potentially cost more than it’s worth too, unless you have a bunch of record mailers laying around.
 

NeoSneth

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LDDB is a waste of time if a majority are common titles, plus you still have to pack and ship everything. Packing material could potentially cost more than it’s worth too, unless you have a bunch of record mailers laying around.

record mailers and media mail.
There's quite a few movies I still like to watch in LD format. I almost upgraded my player but i realized what's the point...
 
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GoosehanX

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I know you said no Facebook, and I agree to stay the hell off of Marketplace, but I have had good luck making regular posts through the Laserdisc Forever FB group and dealing in private messages like you would on forums. I've done that a couple of times when I had a disc that suddenly went up in price but I didn't want to deal with eBay. Common stuff I just put in a box and ship it to a friend who might like them instead of dealing with selling online for discs only worth a dollar or two.

If all else fails you could dump them at McKays in Mebane but they would probably only give you pennies. At that point, just go a couple exits down and dump them at my house :fedora:
 

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Outside of the options already quoted, Laserdisc Forever is an active FB group where members sell discs ranging from common $5 titles to teh rarez.

What titles we talking about here anyway?
 

100proof

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Thanks for the suggestions, folks.

Like I said, most of it is common shit. There's maybe 30-35 discs total. A lot of it is early-to-mid 90s standards like Pulp Fiction, The Rock, Toy Story, Terminator 2, Darkman, etc. There's some artsy fartsy stuff (but also worthless) like City of Lost Children and Kafka. There's a couple of movies that actually seem to be worth a few duckets (Big Trouble in Little China, Army of Darkness). A couple of anime releases (Japanese Dirty Pair OVA + Movie). A few of them are in really good condition but most of the discs and sleeves have wear and tear. Not collectard material.

The only actual interesting things are two early 80s laserdisc games: Thayer's Quest (which seems to go for several hundred dollars when it shows up on the 'Bay but mine doesn't have a sleeve) and a game called Freedom Fighter that I'd never heard of but is apparently an incredibly rare LD game that uses footage from Galaxy Express 999 for a ratchet rail shooter. Don't know if it's even legit cuz it's on a 3M generic looking disc but based on everything else this guy had (I got it in a trade from some dude back in the late 90s and this would've been very much in his wheelhouse) and that it apparently was made by a fly-by-night developer that folded almost immediately after releasing the game, having it be on generic shit wouldn't be completely surprising. Hell, it says "Production Disc First Pressing" on it which isn't something I think they'd bother putting on a copy. Needless to say, I'll have to do some more research to figure out if I have some "uber-rarez!" or just the 1985 version of a CD-R.

Anyway, if anybody wants the common stuff, I'll take $100 shipped just to get it out of my house (obviously, I would itemize it out if someone was legit interested). I looked them all up on the Bay and most go for $10-$15.
 

Burning Fight!!

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Freedom Fighter is an incredibly cool game, that would fetch some good money. Those generic label 3M and Pioneer discs are common for low # press runs for tests and such, so it's legit.

Honestly I'd rather just open palm slam those common LDs into the garbage and focus on selling the animu stuff and the game LDs.
 

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I have a small want list. I’ll DM you in a bit.
 

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there's a FB group "laserdisc forever" which is the best place if you want to sell without much hassle
 

NeoSneth

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Happenstance brought a new LD player to me this week. I guess I'm back in it.
 

Burning Fight!!

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Hey, it seems like Freedom Fighter isn't dumped, or at least not publicly, so another place to sell your disc would be the domesday86 discord.
 

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I have a number of LDs but they're staying since they're all Cardcaptor Sakura episodes and movies :)
 
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