I would have paid $60 for that collection without a second thought, except I simply physically have no place to put more than even a handful of DVDs. They’re teetering in piles as it is in our small house, and we probably don’t have more than 100 total. A lot of my friends who are movie buffs happen to live in small apartments or small houses, and don’t have an easy way to store 300 DVDs.
Just this once, those crazy bastards on Craigslist have my complete understanding. Even if I didn’t already own half of those movies, I’d have to ask myself if I want to spend two hours looking through a dozen spindles every time I feel like watching a movie, and that really doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in.
No Twilight Saga? Forget it.
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My DVDs are in alphabetical order and databased. That’s where the list came from but the list wasn’t really alphabetized like the database.
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Two points: First, I condensed down that huge post and the post quoting it, because nobody wants to scroll through 15 pages of a single post.
Second, SigMan, your last few posts have included a link to an adult picture hosting site. I don’t think this is spam, coming from someone who’s been here posting for a year and a half, but I don’t know what’s going on. Contact me to explain.
In the meantime, until that’s sorted out, this thread is closed.
OK, it looks like the funny links were just coming from the way the photo hosting site formatted links, and were not at all intended by SigMan. I’ll re-open this, but ask that you find a different photo host before posting any more images.
The given list seems to be for the OP’s entire collection of 830 DVDs, while he was selling a subset of around 300.
I completely stopped buying DVD’s when I got a Bluray player. Note: this was a year or two before I even had an HDTV. Between people like me, and the streaming only people, the only DVD’s that really have any value are the ones either not released on BR/streaming, or with extensive extras, better transfers, etc. than the newer releases. No cases only make them even less valuable. Not saying no one ever will want these, but you should probably lower your expectations on how much you’re going to get. When you can find many of these new (with the case) at Walmart’s cheap bin for $5 or so…
Read my post again. For what I am asking, it came out to 20-25 cents each.
Yes, if someone wanted all of those movies. If they only wanted a handful of them, though, then the bargain bin starts to look a lot more appealing.
I;m laughing because that’s the reason I stopped watching my DVDs. With streaming and Youtube I can just watch it with ease but with the DVD I have to take it out the box, put it in the player and then hit play and wait for all the stuff to end in the beginning. So yes I am watching DVD’s less and less
I find my dvds still have value because the audio is still superior to streaming…at least in my exp.
Yes, and besides better audio, DVDs (and HD-DVD/Bluray after them, and Laserdisc before them) are a medium for people who are serious about movies. For the people who want deleted scenes, one or even more commentary tracks, “making-of” documentaries, still galleries and the such and actually watch/listen to those extra features. It is two different markets. Laserdisc was the high-end option against Selectavision and VHS/Beta. DVD was the high-end option against VHS, and now Bluray is the high-end option against streaming. You’ll catch a cinemaphile settling for streaming now about as often as you would have found a cinemaphile settling for Selectavision in the 1980s.
I can’t imagine anyone paying $60 for 300 DVDs with no case or anything - collectors want the cases, people who just want a bunch of movies will either stream them or already have them, and even places that might like a heap of DVDs (old folks homes, for example) might be concerned they’d fallen off the back of a truck.
Have you tried asking around to see if any of your friends want the more interesting films?
Are you kidding? I have friends selling bootleg DVDs.
Seriously, mate, it was just a suggestion.
I know mate but that is true. They rather buy bootlegs with poor picture quality, camcorded stuff and what else. No cases either.
There’s a lot of movies in my collection that are never shown again, even on TV. Imagine seeing your fav stars when they were younger.
None of us here know you or your friends, so the “pfffft” response to well-meaning suggestions isn’t particularly polite.
That wasn’t meant to be a pfffft response.
It came across as one. Saying “Are you serious???” is an extremely dismissive response in this context.