RCA SelectaVision CED VideoDiscs

You'll get the greatest return if you sell titles individually, but this also will require more packaging labor. If you have a huge collection, say several hundred discs, it's unlikely you will get much selling the complete collection in a single auction as most collectors want to minimize disc duplication and the shipping costs would be enormous.

If you must sell a collection containing many discs, type up a list of titles and paste it into the auction description. I've written an Excel Macro that to some degree automates the generation of a title list using the bar code printed on the back of CED's. The inexpensive CueCat Scanner can be used to rapidly enter CED bar codes into the Excel macro.

When selling titles individually, list the disc name in the auction title, and offer a shipping reduction if a bidder wins multiple discs. This will stimulate overall bidding in your multiple CED auctions.

Avoid non-descriptive auction titles like "Three CED VideoDiscs". I've seen large collections listed this way, selling the discs three at a time with the same title used over and over. I tend to skip over these listing due to the time required to open each auction and see what the three titles are.

If you have both a player and discs to sell, you may want to sell the player in one auction and all the discs in another auction. This split will also give you the benefit of exposure in two eBay categories, one for the player and another for the discs. Many collectors are interested in obtaining spare players for parts, so with a low starting bid, players will sell even when they are broken.

If you have a player/disc combination auction, list it in the Movies & Television: Video, Film: Other Formats Category. For a player by itself, this category or Electronics & Computers: Home Electronics: Vintage could be used.

When shipping CED's it is important that they be packed in a box standing upright like books in a shelf. This is because the grooves are very susceptible to overlying weight and will be destroyed in transit if the discs are laid flat. It's a sad situation to ship out discs in excellent condition only to have them arrive at the destination ruined. There's no way to compel a shipper to keep a box in a given orientation, so the safest thing to do is pack no more than a dozen discs in a well padded box. Even if you're shipping a single CED it's important to have it in a box. I've received a couple of CED's in padded envelopes from eBay sellers that upon inspection were obviously ruined from overlying weight. The only explanation is that the shipper put the padded envelope under a heavy box, which is no different than having the disc at the bottom of a flat stack of CED's.

My web site mentioned below has photographs of nearly all CED player models, and the CD-ROM has photographs of nearly all the CED VideoDisc titles. I have seen these same photographs used in eBay auctions a number of times. I don't object to this practice, but in fairness to bidders you should mention that the picture originated at cedmagic.com and is not of the actual item up for auction. This is particularly important if your player or discs are in bad condition and you're using the pictures of better condition items from the web site.