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Topic: Brand New Scope Super Eight "Thunderball" Value?
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 14, 2006 10:07 AM
I could only give an assessment, but I'd say around 200.00. I say that as that would be around what you'd get from a collector, perhaps a little more. The curse with super 8 is that film is like a new car; you drive it off the lot and it drops a couple thousand dollars. The same is true of super 8. A lot also depends on how available the print is; is it a common print, for instance?
Another factor is the company that produced it. If it a Derann print, then it is worth more as the collector knows that it is the "cadillac" of film prints. What film lab, as well.
That, and just how much the particular film is desired.
A good case of this is a collector that put two super 8 prints on ebay, "Speed" and "The Abyss". He was wanting 350.00 dollars for these prints, what he basically would have paid for them brand new. Not suprisingly, the films didn't sell.
If you were to put this print on ebay for instance, (Thunderball), start it at 200.00, which would mean you wouldn't be ripped off on the print, and for all you know, people might bid it up a lot. But if you place too high of a starting bid, you'll get ripped off.
OH, and don't go to a professional seller of Super 8, as with any professional; "Buy low, sell high", you'll never really get a good price from them.
I hope the advice helps.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 23, 2006 11:00 PM
I thought that was your print on ebay. It's all a matter of demand and sadly, as stated earlier, we can almost never get for the print what we'd like to. Most of a films value is in the personal value we put on it ourselves, (which is, of course, far higher than the "market" will allow.)
I do hope, if you should try to sell it in the future, that you'll have better luck. At least, (if I know that print), it's on a very good non-fading L.P.P. film stock and it will retain much of it's resale-ability for the future.
The funny thing is that there are a lot of newer film collectors, (I think a lot of them are like me, we grew up with super 8 as kids, and were getting back into that fondness for distant memories).
The only problem is that a lot of the newer collectors, (that I have talked to) don't understand just how expensive this hobby was, and in most ways, still is, (new prints from England, for example), and so they aren't willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for films.
but, as I've said before, we sure as hell aren't in it for the bucks, were in it for the mystique, the magic of that projected image!
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted November 25, 2006 10:25 AM
You know, honest to God, I don't know who your potential buyer is, but 300.00 for a feature like Thunderball is a pretty good selling price, I mean, I see prints of "Alien" and even Star Wars going for 300.00 on super 8. Usually, the older films, (that is, films from the golden age, 30's -60's), get a lot less, A LOT LESS), so I'd sell, if it was mine.
It's all about what the market will allow. There might be just one person who will pay 300.00, where most would only pay 200.00 tops.
It's only advice, and I wish you the best in selling it. Selling is all about timing, selling it when the demand is high ....
... and quite frankly, demand for super 8 isn't at it's highest right now, which is why most real film collectors are hesitant to move many good prints on the market.
all the best!
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