# How do you buy DVDs wholesale?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-buy-dvds-wholesale/205794>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 6, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-buy-dvds-wholesale/205794 "2003-10-06T02:29:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-buy-dvds-wholesale/205794/1 "2003-10-06T02:29:44Z")

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I recently made a decent bit of money selling some of my old DVDs on eBay, and I figure that with an investment of a few thousand bucks, I could buy new DVDs and hawk them on eBay with a minimum of expense. (I would set up a small business since a significant amount of money would be involved; I’m already familiar with the processes involved in that.)

But I can’t seem to figure out how you go about buying DVDs wholesale from the distributors (or whomever.) I have been googling all weekend in vain. All I can find is websites of questionable legitimacy offering to sell direct-to-video schlock and porn. I’m looking for good movies released by the big studios that people actually want to buy.

Surely some dopers have worked in a video store and are familiar with da bidness.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-buy-dvds-wholesale/205794/2 "2003-10-06T19:29:12Z")

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Bump.