VHS cassettes selling!

[inversions]

About a year and half ago, maybe 2 years, I listed a number of my old shop bought VHS films on here and Amazon. I got round to listing 11 before I decided I probably wouldnt ever sell any at the price I would have to charge in order to cover postage and make it at least slightly worth going to the PO with them.

After some time I had sold only one. On Amazon unfortunately, as I am able to charge much less on here and still make more profit than on Amazon. But I kept the others listed here and over there. About 10 weeks ago someone bought another one! And this last couple of weeks another 2 have sold. I am really surprised that anyone is actually still buying these! They are all available on DVD, no deleted titles. I find it strange that, with DVD players so cheap and easy to use people are still using VCR's! But I guess they must be......

[moonwitch]

Our family is one of those who still buys VHS videos

We have a dvd player and maybe 20 or so dvds but hundreds of videos.

My son buys videos for pennies at bootsales and I sell the rare ones on 'the big river' for at least £5 each.

The dvds at bootsales are nearly always pirates costing around a fiver!! - so we buy videos.

I have rare videos listed here and on 'the big river' - but havent sold more than a handful in the last month.

[bykimbo]

I was still buying videos up until earlier this year, when I dropped my TV/video/combi player and didn't see any point in replacing it. So now I'm selling off my tapes just to clear them, to make space to start buying in DVD replacements! Anything that doesn't sell I'll probably put on Freecycle. I'm not really trying to make money on them anyway - just cover costs - selling's just a way of making sure they go to a good home!

[inversions]

I guess that maybe if you are only paying pennies for a VHS then it makes sense but the VHS I have sold recently cost the buyers £5 each, as that is the minimum I can sell them for on Amazon and still make at least some money. That dosnt make much sense to me!

Not moaning, happy to get rid of them!

General note: Still have a working VHS player, its just not plugged in, and hasnt been for about 2 years.

[DanTheMan3]

I still buy the occasional VHS.
But I must admit it is usually on impulse.

[BAGHAG999]

Was at a car boot sunday and every stall had them and no one seemed to be buying even at 3 for a pound.

[bloss000]

I can't even shift Thomas and Postman Pat for the kids! Have a few still listed but think it is a waste - good job listing is free on here; someone might buy one!?
Please...

[SantasWonderland]

I joined back in february, the one item sold was a video and out of the two items currently selling, one is a video I have 1000's of dvd's and a few hundred videos (mainly boxsets and old films)
I don't see the point of getting rid of a perfectly good video and going out to replace it with an expensive DVD. Most of the people I know prefer video to dvd, as for selling videos, I think the cost of the postage stops people from buying videos rather then anything else.
Happy selling everyone

[inversions]

Most DVD's arnt expensive any more! New from Amazon I recently picked up:
Rumblefish £3.97
The Omega Man £3.98
Paperhouse £3.98
Les Diaboliques £5.97
Blue Collar £3.97

VHS annoys the hell out of me! All that rewinding, trouble with tracking, faults on tapes, and a royal pain to make a back up. When DVD and DVDr became cheap VHS went put the window for me!

[Fossy]

VHS annoys the hell out of me! All that rewinding, trouble with tracking, faults on tapes, and a royal pain to make a back up. When DVD and DVDr became cheap VHS went put the window for me!

It was better than what we had before VHS. Reel to reel films. Probably wont be long before DVD's are out of fashion.