care to share photos of your aquisitions?

Does someone actually WANT the Maniac LE? I was trying to sell that puppy forever on eBay with no success. I traded by Killer CC for Little Shop of Horrors with the alternate ending. I have never watched my copy of Hard Boiled CC. And my sealed copy of the "unrated" Swamp Thing is collecting dust, but I couldn't find anyone to buy that on eBay for the $9.99 I paid for it now that the new rated version is available. Spinal Tap CC - however did I luck into getting that as one of my 1st DVD purchases from Spree.com's Buy 2 Get 1 Free Criterion sale?

The OOP French R2/PAL release of Raul Ruiz' "Le temps retrouve" ("Time Regained") with the all-things-Proust DVD-Rom. Don't know much about this release except that it's supposed to be anamorphic (unlike the crappy R1) and has that interesting sounding DVD-Rom. More disc details here: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASI...900441-0458633

If anyone knows anything more about this disc, I'd love to hear it! If anyone has this disc, I'd love to talk about making you a deal for it!

I bought it the day it came out...great stuff.

I don't think there are any rare dvds that I've wanted that I actually have not come across at some point. If I wanted something...I could/can find it. Had I wanted Salo...I would have bought it when a buddy of mine would have sold it to me for about $50 4 years back. Still no desire to own it, though. I think he got rid of it for a few hundie.

I know an indie video store that rents Salo, but they'll only let you rent it if you've rented from them 5 times before.

I can look at Hard Boiled CC whenever I want, because it's sitting on my DVD shelf. I was originally planning to open the damned thing and watch it, but I still haven't gotten around to it yet. Considering it's now worth bupkis, I don't know why I haven't done that yet. I have never seen Salo or The Killer, however, and I doubt I'll ever want to see Salo.

Bupkis? Huh? I see $70 starting price for sealed copies at Amazon - not near as much as The Killer, but still not bad (though people have been paying that much for my sealed copies of Out of Sight on Amazon).

I have lucked into Anchor Bay tins of Hellraiser / Hellraiser II and Evil Dead II at Gamestop recently, as well as a copy of Silence of the Lambs CC (verified as legit) and a couple copies of Thunderball SE as well as several other rare Bonds.

Oh - what I've never seen and wanted was the R1 Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring. Why is it still OOP?!

I've seen the "Maniac" tin go for upwards of $60 in the past couple of months. I wouldn't mind having it, personally. A lot of Anchor Bay tins, no matter how bad the movie, (i.e. Halloween 5) are desirable, and fetch a pretty penny. As for "Swamp Thing", I don't get it. The new rated version still has the nudity, Adrienne Barbeau bathing in the swamp, where you get full frontal on two seperate ocassions.

If you were selling it for above $40, then its definitely a NO Success

Having a limited number to 5000 available in US (not in Canada, a neighboring R1), that is a lot of production for a tin.

Have it auctioned (And not placing a Reserve price and Buy It Now Cost) around $20 (since its used) then see how bidders hunger for it, it might sky rocket above $50.

Try Amazon, people pay better prices there but you have heftier commissions (15% + 99 cent selling fee.) I have had good luck selling some rare stuff there - I think people feel more protected being able to use their credit card and having Amazon's A-Z guarantee.

I guess the copy of Condorman I found traded-in at Blockbuster last year is a pretty rare one - listed right now on Amazon for $219.99. (Now I wish I hadn't sold it to dvds123.com for ~$50, in the days before I discovered how easy it is to sell at Amazon.)

Condorman

CD Warehouse around here likes to base their prices off of Amazon when it comes to OOP. It usually ends up being about $7-$10 cheaper, which more or less accounts for the gouging sellers to do make back the Amazon commissions, which are pretty steep.

It's not the right market by which to gauge OOP titles worth, because it is solid, and influenced by ONE seller, not fluctuating, and based on an actual market, like eBay.

Pawn America does the same thing very rarely, given they know what they actually have. I got "My So Called Life" for $15, and 007 Bond Collection 1 for $50, and they tried to sell "Taken" for $50 as well, which was based on Amazon prices. It's hit or miss.

Perhaps on the rare occasion that there is only one seller listing a particular item - but in that case it might be the ONLY place to find a particular item. There are no current or completed listings for the version of Condorman I linked to above - the less rare version listed at $119 has half.com listings for $99 and $129, and a completed eBay sale at $68 for a seemingly legit copy (there is one up for sale right now that looks like an import - R0 and 5.1, the original was 2.0.)

In any event, having made over 100 sales there in the last year (many of them rare OOP stuff) I prefer Amazon as a stable market vs a fluctuating one like ebay. A while back I bought a copy of A View to a Kill for $12 on eBay to complete a Bond SE Vol 3 someone had traded in at Gamestop - a few days later they found the missing one and I turned around and sold the extra on Amazon for $28 in a couple days. Which is the more accurate market? Also, Amazon does fluctuate quite a bit - once the Walmart supply dried up, the low price on Fletch has varied between $43 and $68 for sealed copies (since the beginning of December.)

Little Shop of horrors with the alternate ending

I vote we rename this thread "List things you've never seen that are rarely seen"

Little Witches - I have been looking for this DVD for months and havn't seen it listed on Amazon or Ebay yet. I can't imagine it would sell for much though.

Man, I didn't even realize Playtime was OOP. It got stolen a while ago but still that makes me even more angry that it got stolen.

..but let me ask you this. How fair is the turnaround on an Amazon sale? I sell what I buy to resell almost immediately. Reason being is because I go to pawn shops/GameStop stores 4 times a week, and I don't have time to wait for things to sell.

Don't worry. A better version will be forthcoming from Criterion.

Turnaround on Amazon is shockingly fast on many items. Twice, I've listed Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs for like 85 bucks on Amazon and they've sold within hours. Most OOP wrestling DVD's I list also go the same day. Other stuff takes longer, but I've found that on most items, being the cheapest seller guarantees a sale within a day or two.

'The Evil Dead Lunchbox Edition. Been quite a while that its not seen in stores/online auctions.'

Wow... forgot about this... I bought this as a present one year for my best friend... There are many OOP DVDs I've never seen, but none I really care about... I've seen just about every CC in stores (been collecting since '98, even own the John Woo CCs), except Salo, which I saw in an indie rental place here...

Didn't even know Condorman and Little Witches were on DVD... haven't seen those, I believe...

Here... never seen the R2 Japanese Princess Blade LE. There you go!

[QUOTE=NCYankee]Perhaps on the rare occasion that there is only one seller listing a particular item - but in that case it might be the ONLY place to find a particular item. There are no current or completed listings for the version of Condorman I linked to above - the less rare version listed at $119 has half.com listings for $99 and $129, and a completed eBay sale at $68 for a seemingly legit copy (there is one up for sale right now that looks like an import - R0 and 5.1, the original was 2.0.)

What the hell happened on Condorman. I used to see it for 5-6 dollars all the time. Now I am pissed that I didn't buy it.

Ditto what Flair said. The longest it has taken a DVD I have had priced competitively was Fantasia Anthology which went in about a month.

Not even Amazon has an info on it.

Thats how rare it was. I saw one last year 2004 at ebay with an ended auction price of $75 (opened and used)

I just stay away from Amazon because of their high commissions, but if it means I could get a little more than on eBay, I may just bite the bullet, even though my stuff sells pretty swift there. As far as wrestling DVD's go, not to steal your thunder, but what have you found sells well? I've come across "nWo: Back in Black" atleast 3 times, getting $30-$35 each time, and WMX7 and WMX8, towards $40. Otherwise, I never really know what to look out for. I want "Hulk Still Rules" for myself, and CD Warehouse got it in, but want $30 for it.