Looking for some advice selling an Avatar lenticular

[Disheveledamethyst]

Sell your plasma instead.  People benefit, your greed is fed.

Sign a contract between you two, sell it in 20 years.

We have LCDs. It's so hard to be good.

What it comes down to is that we're just not that kind of people. We don't see it or want it to be a long term investment. My friend is moving in the near future and I'm pretty happy with a hundred free dollars so we don't feel like we're missing out on anything. Sometimes people just want to get rid of things, that's why you can go to Cinema Masterpieces or eBay and buy an enormously rare piece of paper for a few thousand dollars.

You can keep your Snow White poster for fifty more years and sell if for ten times as much money. Or you can sell it now and have $17,000.

We're not investors. We're just two young guys with modest ambitions making a bit of money on something we don't want.

[CSM]

I have a feeling it will not be worth any more in 20 years than it is now.  By then I think it will be largely forgotten - having been replaced by better films with even more impressive technology.

Does anyone really think Avatar has the cultish nostalgia staying power of say Star Wars?  No way!

The time to sell it was while it was still in theatres.  

And like Disheveled said - it's a near $400+ profit - I doubt anyone can guarantee that kind of coin will still be an option in 20 years.  

Better off taking the $400 and investing it in something and let it grow over 20 years.  That's much smarter than hanging on to a mass-produced slice of 2009/2010 commercialism...

[wonka]

Ha, here I am almost defending Avatar.  I would rather watch Cops and Robbersons or Corina, Corina over Avatar.

Some good points, Chris...however, you are forgetting that we are getting old.  Kids now don't have the attachment to the Millennium Falcon that they do with half naked blue chicks.  It stinks, but is true.  When the kids into Avatar now have their kids, they will show them Avatar and point to it as THE film...its a strong possibility, anyway (unfortunately).

The film does represent many important landmarks in its industry's history in terms of the technology involved, much like Star Wars in the past.  
It handled the 3D thing in the biggest way.  Remember, this isn't Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D with Brenden Frasier.

I could go either way on mine, personally.  Right now, I am going to let it rot in the flat file, who cares.  It's not going to nose dive to a $25 value anytime soon.

[Disheveledamethyst]

Mr. Wonka,

As a youth, I can say that Avatar's popularity was a brief sensation. I know maybe one or two people who are "into" Avatar, but nothing like people are "into" Star Wars. Star Wars is still immensely popular, even among people who were only alive for the theatrical release of the prequels (which were greeted as abominations) and Avatar is last year's news. I only know two people who own Avatar, and I'm not one of them.

I don't predict Avatar's popularity will extend as far as Star Wars, or Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings. Avatar was a self-contained bomb shell. At least in New England among 18-25 year olds.

[CSM]

When the kids into Avatar now have their kids, they will show them Avatar and point to it as THE film...its a strong possibility, anyway (unfortunately).

Good thing I wasn't one of those kids!

Nearly every film made nowadays is a disposable capitalist venture (and the same goes for their posters! - in my most humblest of opinions)

[archie leach]

Good thing I wasn't one of those kids!

Nearly every film made nowadays is a disposable capitalist venture (and the same goes for their posters! - in my most humblest of opinions)

You forgot 'Bah Humbug', 'Get off my lawn!' and 'dagnabbit'.