Today at Barnes and Noble, i was looking around and I saw something I have allways wanted to buy....A dvd collection of very rare and famous movies made by Thomas Edison as old as from 1891. The thing is, it was priced at $100. I would buy it for $30 at the most. I have many of the movies on there on a DVD I made myself. What would an appropriate price be for antique movies such as these?
This is in the History category because I have no idea where else to put it...
2007-07-25 19:37:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The DVDs aren't antique only the films on them, therefore the price should be low as I'm sure there were many copies made.
2007-07-30 08:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The price is whatever people will pay. Yes a hundred bucks can be deemed pricey for a bunch of grainy black & white silent images of long dead people cavorting in front of a camera but by shelling out that hundred bucks you might be supporting research & recovery of rare films and if you do like windows into an increasingly distant past then by all means hand the dude a hundred bucks.
Truly. If some 'geek' is willing to spend hours splicing together deteriorating high inflamable film - - - watching countless hours of 'dull as dirt' film in the hope of finding that rare 'gem,' then more power to him or her. The man who saved most of Buster Keaton's and later Arbuckle's movies made less in his lifetime than the average professional golfer does today in 2007 for losing in a major tourney.
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And don;t be afraid to negociate - - - eventually it will come down to $30 - - - IF enough people buy it at a hundred then the maker will say heck, flood the market. That is the advanatage of the DVD age.
Enough blathering...... Almost - - - Preserving the Past is Priceless - - - no I won't spew out the lecture about a pair of Paris Hilton's panties going for ten thousand bucks -- -...
Pax--------------------
2007-07-26 03:02:32 · answer #2 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like yard sale pricing too. So you may have to wait for someone to pay $100 dollars for it, keep it for a while then decide to put it in a yard sale and then you have the famous movie you want for a yard sell price! Good Luck at the yard sale!
2007-08-01 21:01:05 · answer #3 · answered by book writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋