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Joe Taffis
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posted September 04, 2013 03:59 PM

Could someone tell me what Derann originally charged for the first STAR WARS feature? I forgot what it was....thanks

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Tom Photiou
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posted September 04, 2013 04:01 PM

i cant remember the exaact price but i think it was around £230 brand new, we paid £175 second hand a few years after its release on 8

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 04, 2013 04:25 PM

Price Codes 2007
A - £ 11.50 AA - £467.00 B - £ 14.00 BB - £469.00 C - £ 16.50 CC - £520.00
D - £ 23.00 DD - £535.00 E - £ 27.99 EE - £655.00 F - £ 27.99 FF - £45.00
G - £ 33.99 GG - £ 17.50 H - £ 50.99 HH - £ 7.30 I - £ 83.00 II - £ 61.00
J - £ 89.00 JJ - £ 21.00 K - £145.00 L - £185.00 M - £ 73.00 N - £ 39.99
O - £279.00 P - £299.99 Q - £275.00 R - £239.99 S - £259.00 T - £279.99
U - £320.00 V - £335.00 W - £345.00 X - £375.00 Y - £389.00 Z - £399.99

Stars Wars doesn't appear on the page that remains on the Net as feature but as 400 feet extract and had an N code. To give you an idea, Star trek Generations had a W code Of course, the best is to go to the "forgotten page" http://derannlists.co.uk/derann/8a.php

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Pete Richards
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posted September 04, 2013 10:37 PM

Once when I wanted to buy it from Derann it was 375 quid. Not sure exactly what year that was. I remember it was the same price as Terminator 2, and I couldn't decide. Then my diff went in the car and I couldn't afford either one!

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 05, 2013 12:05 AM

It matchs the price list. Terminator II was sold at 375 £.

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Joe Taffis
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posted September 05, 2013 09:07 AM

Thank you for the replies [Smile]

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Osi Osgood
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posted September 05, 2013 12:25 PM

I remember paying approximately 400.00 dollars in the late 1980's when it first came out. Happy to say that with Alien, it's one of those few prints that have actually went way up in value!

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David Ollerearnshaw
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posted September 05, 2013 02:02 PM

Another helpful location for Derann is the web archive. Derann 2002

Not sure how much I paid, but I think I bought it when first released, followed by the other two.

Would I sell it?

Don't think so. I've only ever sold 3 or 4 titles since I started collecting in the mid 70's

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Joe Taffis
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posted September 05, 2013 04:26 PM

Thanks again, the reason I asked is because I've been offered a Derann print privately. Osi, did you ever get that striper goin'? I have a 400' digest that needs a sound stripe....

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Adrian Winchester
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posted September 06, 2013 06:26 PM

The August 1989 issue of FFTC has a review and the prices from when it first went on sale: £289 stereo, £259 mono.

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Joe Taffis
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posted September 06, 2013 06:44 PM

Thanks Adrian. So that was $400.00 USD for a mono version. That was a reasonable price, and to me, it still is. Not the inflated prices I see it selling for now....

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Pete Richards
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posted September 07, 2013 02:57 AM

If that was $400 dollars of 1980s money, what would that be in todays dollars?

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Jonathan Trevithick
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posted September 07, 2013 04:30 AM

About $789.
Here is a link to an inflation calculator:

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=400&year1=1988&year2=2013

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