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Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on 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

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on 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

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on 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

Posted by Pete Richards (Member # 2203) on 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!

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 05, 2013, 12:05 AM:

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

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on September 05, 2013, 09:07 AM:

Thank you for the replies [Smile]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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!

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on 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

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on 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....

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on 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.

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on 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....

Posted by Pete Richards (Member # 2203) on September 07, 2013, 02:57 AM:

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

Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on 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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