Anyone capable of appraising an extremely rare CD?

I don't actually think you'll get more than $5 for that.

Maybe I am ignorant here but why do you think this is worth anything? It's a faulty print..

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Originally Posted by DavidMahler 

 I'm assuming there is someone out there who could see a potential value in something so rare.

In The States anything is possible, I agree Well, I would be really surprised if you would get a buck out of this but go for it. Who knows..

Do you think you can blackmail the factory? Or do you actually think you can find somebody who is interested in owning it? And if you find this person, why would he pay more than $5?

It wouldn't be worth anything as an investment to anybody if there is no market for collectibles like that, and I don't think there is a market out there of collectors faulty-CD-inlay-prints, 

I`m affraid it`s only a pirated cd,
 

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Originally Posted by DavidMahler 

It's a faulty print of two entirely unrelated record labels and genres.....I've never seen a commercial CD distributed like that.  I'm assuming there is someone out there who could see a potential value in something so rare.  Maybe I'm wrong but I believe it may be the only CD in the world ever printed like that and actually have been bought rather than trashed in the factory.

the CD itself would have to be desirable to begin with and the printing mistake would at most add a couple bucks to the value

mistakes (even extremely rare ones) often don't make things much more valuable

I always thought they did. At least in postage stamps, collectible cards, etc. misprints are always more valuable than the normal pressings. A lot more valuable if the error is in very limited amount of copies.

Of course if the object in hand is valuable on it's own a misprint can make it extremely valuable. Dunno about Chick Corea though. If the value of the normal pressing is very low, you are not probably going to get a lot of money even though your copy has an error.

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Originally Posted by necropimp 

mistakes (even extremely rare ones) often don't make things much more valuable

The only times I've seen errors amount to big money are with stamps and currency.  Inaccuracies are often overlooked or considered valuable for prototypes of famous goods, preliminary sketches of artwork and early drafts of famous manuscripts.

I'm not sure why anyone would pay a large sum for this.

It would only be worth a lot of money if there are collectors who are looking for it and are willing to pay big money, like the old Nintendo games.

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Originally Posted by Kees 

I don't actually think you'll get more than $5 for that.

I think you're wrong! Maybe he can get $10!!!

The thing is that CD cases are not a collectible item.  Heck, in many cases people throw them away and store the CD in sleeves or rip it and sell it.  Misprints in items like money, stamps, or comic books are only a big deal because they are already collectible items.  Maybe if you stashed it away and waited 50 years for digital download to completely erase CD production it would be worth something, but otherwise...

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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik 

The only times I've seen errors amount to big money are with stamps and currency.  Inaccuracies are often overlooked or considered valuable for prototypes of famous goods, preliminary sketches of artwork and early drafts of famous manuscripts.

 

I'm not sure why anyone would pay a large sum for this.

X2. My father is a big coin collector and he has a couple of coins that were struck wrong resulting in a one-off. One includes an old Buffalo Nickel. I forget the others.