Sometimes a title sells for more in one auction than the minimum bid in another:
Any price guide for CED's will have to take condition of both the caddy and disc into account to be accurate. It certainly helps to have a picture of the caddy in the eBay auction, but caddy condition doesn't necessarily reflect the condition of the disc inside. It already is for me, because I've been using eBay for the last few years to gradually replace the rental discs in my collection with better condition copies, and have sometimes been chagrined to get a disc in even worse shape that the one I was trying to replace. Condition hasn't been a major factor with CED's to date, because discs still in shrink wrap don't sell for that much more than rental discs, but I believe over time this will become more of an issue. For example, an old coin in brilliant uncirculated condition will be worth a lot more than the same coin in fair condition. With most collecting hobbies, condition of the item plays a major factor in determining value. CED players are also present in the auction listings, and have been more stable in price over time.ĮBay prices usually don't take caddy and disc condition into account: When eBay added the specific CED Category in 1999, it seemed that more non-collectors became aware of a way to dispose of their CED's, and prices declined. Prices seemed to hit a peak in 1998 after the CED FAQ was updated with information on eBay, as collectors outnumbered sellers for a while, and some titles that were merely rare seemed to go for overly high figures, probably because of competition among collectors anxious to fill holes in their collections. This relates to supply and demand, as in the early days CED sellers outnumbered buyers on eBay. Those who have been tracking prices at eBay since the early days are probably aware that CED's initially sold for fairly low dollar amounts, then prices increased for a while, followed by a decline in price. I got this same title about a year later for the minimum bid of $9.99 as the seller neglected to mention that his auction for Rocky I, II, and III also included the discs in a box, and since then I've seen this title go for $20 - $30, when it's clear the discs do come in the Rocky box. This is an example of a bidding competition between collectors (probably for just the box in this case) and is not indicative of the price the item might sell for in a set price sale. For example, the highest price I have ever seen a consumer retail CED title go for on eBay was $211.00 for the "Rocky Championship Collection." This took place in 1998, not long after I posted a message to CED Digest Vol. The title and description have a bearing on price, as well as how many people are competing to win the auction. Prices for the same item can vary widely at eBay: But even these auction prices need to be taken with a grain of salt, as there are a number of other factors to consider: This page is the nearest thing to a price guide that I can come up with at present, as it includes the actual prices CED's have sold for in eBay auctions over time. I was comfortable doing the rarity rating, because it was largely determined by quantitative means, but CED value is far more subjective, and it would be presumptuous (and inaccurate) to simply assign a dollar value to each CED title. Sometimes I even get lists of CED titles requesting that I assign a dollar value to each title. After I completed the rarity rating in the CED Title Database, a common question I received was how soon would it include a dollar value for each title.
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