Need suggestions on selling rare VHS

[Bogart]

Selling a property I own, store is full of old VHS inventory.  What's the best way to move the rare stuff?  Is there a buyer that might take it all?  Ebay?  Wrestling, new in the shrinkwrap Disney, complete 5 Mile Creek, and the oddball rare stuff.  Nice wall shelving also. 

I really appreciate ideas on how best to move this stuff.

[merscham]

Ebay will let you sell in a lot sale - Amazon will let you sell individually - I would go with Ebay if you need to move it all at once. Wish I had some more suggestions for you - hopefully someone else does.

[mcmarc]

Disney vhs is dead.

What is worth a lot now is out of print horror and exploitation titles that are still in the 80s style clamshell packaging... Magnum, Continental, etc.

[wannabevideostoreowner]

Disney VHS sure is dead. All of the thrift stores I go to are bombarded with it lately at 50 cents. I see more of it lately than other general movies. Can only guess people have been hanging onto it longer than their general collections, then dumping in mass quantities.

I still buy VHS (personally, for my own personal use) from thrift stores, etc. Cassette tape to CD was a HUGE jump because no one wants to fast forward and rewind for each song they play, but was prerecorded VHS to DVD really such a leap? Either VHS or DVD, you just stick the movie in and watch it. Some VHS tapes get eaten and have a few second glitch but some DVD's skip. All the second hand VHS I buy plays the movie fine, and it only costs me .50. It doesn't take much more space to store VHS vs. DVD.

Just can't understand why the masses dumped their entire VHS collections when the movie studios told them it wasn't cool anymore...

Now recorded VHS vs. recorded DVD is a HUGE difference. Leaps and bounds difference. That I understand.

Oh well. I've stocked up on hundreds of amazing movies this year for practically nothing so if everyone wants to dump VHS, fine with me

[Bogart]

Thanks.  I am going to put up a 3X5 sellout banner for Sat and Sun, most VHS $1.  I will cherry pick the most rare and hit ebay with them.  Any more ideas???

[videosilva]

Just can't understand why the masses dumped their entire VHS collections when the movie studios told them it wasn't cool anymore...

Now recorded VHS vs. recorded DVD is a HUGE difference. Leaps and bounds difference. That I understand.

Oh well. I've stocked up on hundreds of amazing movies this year for practically nothing so if everyone wants to dump VHS, fine with me

The reason why everyone jumped on DVD is easy to answer. In a nutshell greed !

VHS New Releases on average were around $100.00. The average consumer could not afford to buy $100.00 movies. Then we were introduced with sell through some titles would come in a little cheaper. A few months after realease new movies were sold at around $20.00 at Walmarts etc.

Then DVD was introduce with out much success. The studios then starting pricing the SAME New Realeas VHS at $100.00 a movie and the same movie on DVD for roughly $30.00. As a video store owner it was much more lucrative to buy the DVD version of the movie.

DVD was and is an inferior producet to Video Tape no matter what the studio people try to tell you.

DVD's skip, get scrathed too easily. DO NOT HAVE A LONG SHELF LIFE as was first told. DVD's have to handled like eggs.

Tape would go on and on and on. Tape had a reported lifespan of 100 years. I have neraly 30 year old tapes that are just as good or near as the day we bought them.

Sorry. for the long post. But now you know the. TRUTH !!!