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Uncle Buck
01-20-2017, 09:23 AM
I heard on the radio the other day that collectors are paying big money for old Disney VHS tapes.

Here's an example

$19k US for Beauty and the Beast!

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Beauty-and-the-Beast-Black-Diamond-VHS-Original-Release-/182153456903?hash=item2a69312d07:g:YHEAAOSw0gdXTN0 L

Saw a sealed one for $50k. Shipping was free.

Makes Barrett Jackson prices look sane

Think I'll sell a few of my kid's VHS tapes and pick up a BOSS 9

RedSN
01-20-2017, 09:27 AM
If that's for the tapes; I wonder how much my VHS player is worth?

Uncle Buck
01-20-2017, 09:30 AM
If that's for the tapes; I wonder how much my VHS player is worth?

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bluetoy
01-20-2017, 10:12 AM
I have a couple of Beta machines and tapes. Also have many VHS movies and a few machines. I'm rich!!

MUSTANGWOP
01-20-2017, 01:42 PM
I heard on the radio the other day that collectors are paying big money for old Disney VHS tapes.

Here's an example

$19k US for Beauty and the Beast!

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Beauty-and-the-Beast-Black-Diamond-VHS-Original-Release-/182153456903?hash=item2a69312d07:g:YHEAAOSw0gdXTN0 L

Saw a sealed one for $50k. Shipping was free.

Makes Barrett Jackson prices look sane

Think I'll sell a few of my kid's VHS tapes and pick up a BOSS 9The one in the ebay link has had 2 offers on it! Both declined however.

Intmdtr
01-20-2017, 10:34 PM
I collected all of these Disney movies since I was a child. I even have doubles of some of the ones that they "Opened the Vault" for. Call me crazy I guess, but I would sell them for the right price.....

Ponyryd
01-21-2017, 12:33 AM
My wife has a ton of them, maybe I can convince her to sell them......all are used though, we don't bubble-wrap anything, lol, if we bought it, we've used it.

Biz
01-21-2017, 09:00 AM
Not tape related but if you have old records which I have about 8000.
Check out discogs. A place to sell and buy vinyl and cd's.
Some of the prices are insane LOL

https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?sort=price%2Cdesc&currency=USD&limit=25&format=Vinyl

RedSN
01-21-2017, 11:22 AM
Vinyls I can somewhat understand, I get the "warmth" and "feel" of vinyl. But VHS? 333×480? Unless it's a copy of some extremely rare movie that will never ever be released again. Like Star Wars.
I have a DVD copy of the original wide screen laserdisc Star Wars. I treat those like gold, even tho they are copies.