Are these selling prices reasonable?

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- CommentAuthorKevinSmith
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010 edited
I'm just thinking for the future if I needed to sell some of my collection for any financial difficulties, I would be able to raise a decent amount of money from the sale.

The Soloist/Marianelli - $10
The Russia House/Goldsmith - $5
The Black Stallion Returns/Delerue (Intrada) - $30
Atonement/Marianelli - $8
Radio Flyer/Zimmer - $12
Michael Collins/Goldenthal - $20
A.I./Williams - $10
Sahara/Mansell - $12
Batman/Elfman - $5
The Dark Crystal Single Disc/Jones - $12
Legends of the Fall/Horner - $5
Bee Movie/Gregson Williams - $8
Tombstone (Deluxe)/Broughton - $15
All The Pretty Horses/Stuart & Co - $8
Close Encounters of a Third Kind (Astra 1998)/Williams - $10
Batman Returns/Elfman (original) - $5
The Godfather Part II/Rota - $7
Avatar/Horner - $8
Angels & Demons/Zimmer - $8
Heaven & Earth/Kitaro - $12
The Mask of Zorro/Horner - $5
9/Lurie & Elfman - $10
Chicken Run/Powell & Gregson Williams - $20
The House of the Spirits/Zimmer - $15
Star Trek II (FSM)/Horner - $15
Star Trek V (original)/Goldsmith - $12
The Dig/Land - $30
Angels in America/Newman - $8
City Slickers II/Shaiman - $10
The Rocketeer/Horner - $15
The Blue Max (Intrada)/Goldsmith - $35
Crimson Tide/Zimmer - $10
The Twilight Saga: New Moon/Desplat - $6
Willow/Horner - $5
East of Eden Lee Holdridge Compilation - $12
Farewell to the King (Intrada)/Poledouris - $15
Johnny English/Shearmur - $8
Around the World in 30 Days/Jones - $5
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest/Holdridge - $12
The Wind and the Lion (Intrada 2CD)/Goldsmith - $25
Holdridge conducts Holdridge - $20
Goldfinger (expanded)/Barry - $6
Back to the Future (Intrada)/Silvestri - $25
Fantastic Mr Fox/Desplat - $8
Magdalene/Eidelman - $12
The Missing/Horner - $5
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within/Goldenthal - $5
Sommersby/Elfman - $10
Independence Day (LaLaLand)/Arnold - $25
Rudy/Goldsmith - $5
Animal Farm/Harvey - $18
The Crow: City of Angels/Revell - $5
Reign of Fire/Shearmur - $5
Troy/Horner - $5
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace/Williams - $5
The Mighty/Jones - $12
Body of Evidence/Revell - $5
Alien Resurrection 2CD (Signed)/Frizzell - $50
Predator (Sealed Intrada)/Silvestri - $60
Finding Neverland/Kaczmarek - $8
Murder in the First/Young - $25
When The Whales Came/Gunning - $40
Passenchedaele/Kaczmarek - $25
Loch Ness/Jones - $8
Raise The Titanic/Barry - $10
Patton & Tora Tora Tora! (RSNO)/Goldsmith - $8
Beyond Rangoon/Zimmer - $5
Indochine/Doyle - $5
The Pacific/Zimmer - $10
The Tailor of Panama/Davey - $10
Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid/Tyson-Chew - $10
Dinotopia/Jones - $8
Aristocrats/Thomas - $5
The Usual Suspects/Ottman - $6
The Edge (LaLaLand)/Goldsmith - $15
Krull (LaLaLand)/Horner - $20
Alice in Wonderland/Elfman - $10

Please tell me if these prices are reasonable or not.
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- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
What I do is correlate prices with Amazon, the major outlets (SAE, Intrada, Varese) and Soundtrackguide.net to find "reasonable" prices.

But, as with any niche market product, at the end of the day it's just what anyone's happy to give you that determines the price. So do your homework (through the sites I mentioned) so you're prepared for any negotiations, but don't pin yourself down too much.

Rule of thumb:
- OOP, jack up your price.
- In print: very small chance you'll get more than 5-8 bucks for any CD.
'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
Can't argue with the logic
listen to more classical music!
- CommentAuthorHeeroJF
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
It's also not just a matter of finding how much they're worth based on the supply (OOP vs. In Print), but also gauge the demand.

For example, the one price in your whole list that I think is probably much too high is Batman. Sure, you can't get much more classic than that, and it's definitely worth $8, but then again it's SO classic that pretty much everyone already has it. So no one's looking for it. Any new collector who actually doesn't have it will dive right for a $1 copy he can find on eBay, not yours. So super-popular things like that (Titanic, Braveheart, Batman) that everyone already has, you might want to aim way wayyyy low. I notice that very principle when I look through my CD supplier's prices.
''The mandate, as well as the benefit, of responsibility is the ability to tell when one can afford to be irresponsible.'' - Me
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010 edited
I've recently been trying to sell off a bunch of my CD's myself (still am, in fact....see list at the Market Place area), and my experience is that the interest is very low for most of them all over the net. Probably due to a saturated market, first and foremost.

So I've dumped my prices to about 1/4 of what I once paid for them (sometimes even further reduced), and even that is difficult.

So by comparing your list and mine, and by the relative availability of the items, I would say that you are SLIGHTLY on the expensive side. I started out about your level, but have since been forced to reduce them to about half that.
I am extremely serious.
- CommentAuthorBregt
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
Are you selling these? Some of them you must be your favourites since you used them for your videos. I wouldn't sell these.
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- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
Yeah, some stuff shouldn't be there; with just a first glimpse for instance, i saw atonement....
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- CommentAuthorKevinSmith
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
It's just a Plan X (or Project X even?) if I decide that I just want the music and not the CDs.
Revenge is sweet... Revenge is best served cold... Revenge is ice cream.
- CommentAuthorKevinSmith
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2010
New prices.
Revenge is sweet... Revenge is best served cold... Revenge is ice cream.
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2010 edited
Why? Did you change your original question (about a hypothetical sale)? Or are you now actually selling?
Anyway, I refer to my original answer, which I think still holds as true as it did six months ago.
'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
- CommentAuthorKevinSmith
- CommentTimeDec 19th 2010
I'm thinking about it.
Revenge is sweet... Revenge is best served cold... Revenge is ice cream.
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeDec 20th 2010
I see no problem with Martijn's proposition.
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeDec 20th 2010
nor i
listen to more classical music!

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