Interest Check: VHS Tapes

[JohnnyBlaze]

Well, I've been wanting to do this for a while, but I'm not sure if there'd be any interest, so I'll go here.

 

I have a few boxes of VHS tapes. Some I bought new when FYE started offloading them. Would anyone be interested in taking these off my hands for say $4-5 a tape? If anyone's looking for something specific, let me know.

[amiman99]

I have seen used DVD for as low as $2.00 in Pawn Shops, so honestly VHS would be worth less then that.

I got bunch of VHS too, but I don't have a heart to trash them.

[Scootiecat]

Blank VHS? You can buy them for $2.00 apiece at WalMart.

[Stan]

Best if you list what you have, but yeah, $1-2 per tape is more reasonable, unless you have something harder to find like Andy Warhol's Dracula or something.

[JohnnyBlaze]

If I sell for $2 a piece, I'd need to sell it in lots. Post office has gotten expensive. But, I have older prints of movies and some that are a little harder to find on VHS because by 2004, VHS was limitedly released. So, the bulk of it are older releases and 2002-2004.

[+20ohm20]

I couldn't sell brand new, shrink wrapped VHS movies from 1995ish to 2000-2001 for $1 each at a garage sale. Only one person showed interest and they offered me $6 for the entire box of them I had, which would have averaged about 45 cents apiece (which I turned down). I hope you have better luck selling them than I did.

[JohnnyBlaze]

I'm hoping. I need this out of here. They're taking up too much room.

[Austin]

Try a local used books & movies store if you have one. The one by me still gives money for VHS tapes. They don't sell them for much though--maybe a buck or two a piece at most, many for probably between .50 and .75 cents. Or, if you simply want them out of your house, give them to a thrift store. It's probably not worth the trouble of selling them online unless you get someone willing to buy the whole lot.

[Stan]

List what you have man, that's the only place to start. $1-2 is just fine, we're paying shipping, remember?

[+wood_jl]

List what you have. Sell a few of the more desirable/rare ones here, and give the rest to Goodwill/Salvation Army.

[Zenoff64]

Vhs tapes aren't even worth the cost to ship them unless it something uber rare or never released on dvd/bluray

[+save2600]

Any music video or concerts in there? The vids that are not on DVD yet, those are the only ones I could see paying upwards of $5 for.

[wccw mark]

if you got some of the early 80's/90's wrestling on vhs,i might be intrested in them

[fmdof]

just do what I did. take them to the thrift store and give them away. I'm not a VHS hater. They're just not worth anything, and will cost too much to ship for anyone who is interested. I still use my "vintage dvr" to record shows. Mainly because I live in a hotel.

[+thegoldenband]

I personally would be very reluctant to pay more than $1.00 for just about anything on VHS, but I do buy tapes at that price when it's a movie I've been looking for. I've even been known to spend 10-25 cents at a yard sale for homemade tapes. Once, I got the extended version of Conan the Barbarian that way, which used to be shown on cable but was hard to obtain otherwise.

[Stan]

Hey man, VHS rules! I just totally watched some Beetleborg episodes the other day on the old tapes.

[Schizophretard]

Hey man, VHS rules! I just totally watched some Beetleborg episodes the other day on the old tapes.

 

They are even better in a S-VHS VCR.