I've got a few working laserdisc players and I noticed that most people selling discs sell them untested which is a big deterrent to potential buyers. I know it's a niche market at best, but would there be any interest in getting your discs tested. I figure you ship, I charge $20-$25??? total, which would include return shipping and my time to test the disc, take and post pics/video of it working/or not, repackage and ship back.
Just throwing this out there, Obviously be a deep discount on multiple discs. Please feel free to give feedback on the idea or interest. Thanks!
Interesting idea (especially since I have a stack of discs and no working players).
How do you propose to test? Are you going to sit and watch and listen to the disc play 100% from start to finish? In my opinion, that's the only way to verify it's 100% good. Discs can have a few seconds of laser rot here and there that could easily be missed if you just play it for a few minutes. Or if you start it from the beginning and then don't watch it, but come back to see that it played through to the end successfully. Also there can be brief freezes or jumps that clear themselves and you wouldn't know unless you watched them the whole way. And sound can drop in and out too. Again, another item that could be missed if you don't watch it every second it's in.
Certainly not hard to test a disc if you have a working player, just put it in and watch it. But, assuming a disc is 30 minutes and to test it well, you need to actively watch and listen the whole time, that will take some time and I imagine gets really, really boring after the 2nd time through DL.
Like I said, interesting idea, but cautioning you that I hope you realize what you might be getting yourself into on this one. At least this is what I'd expect if someone tells me they tested my discs.
It'd be crazy in my house to try to do this on a regular basis, 3 kids, 2 dogs, 3 cats, wife, everyone has their own cell phone and home landline and devices playing all kinds of music all the time. I need to wait until everyone goes to bed. And then I'm usually too tired myself.
Best of luck though. I agree, selling untested is a deterrent to the buyer and hurts the seller prices too.