Pre-recorded VHS tapes

Berserker

Berserker

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For those of you who are old enough to know what a VHS tape is (:p), I'm about to go through all my old tapes and clear out most of them.

Is there anything I can do with them besides throw them in the bin? :(

PS - anyone who mentions mustard, nuking from orbit, punching in the ovaries or similar will be, er, nuked from orbit. :p
 
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Flog 'em, there's always somebody who collects them.

Or, make a chair out them in an attempt to beat Dangerous' beer chair!
 
I went through all mine a few months ago, about 400 of them.
Offered them to friends, the local shops, flea bay etc......nobody interested.

Went down to the local tip & ended up binning the lot. :(
 
All mine are snowy recordings of soft-core porn from channel 5.

The internet now makes it so simple - getting your porn as a teen in the mid 90s wasn't that easy.
 
shauncr91 said:
For the amount you'd get I'm not sure it'd even be worth the effort tbh.
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You said what I was thinking. I expect the P&P would be more than I'd get for all but the collectors editions (and probably even for those).

Do charity shops even accept VHS tapes any more? What are they going to do with them?
 
If you put the lot of them on ebay and sell them as a job lot for about 5-10 quid then you may get a buyer. Other than that, file them under B/I/N.
 
Unless they are something that hasn't had a DVD release anywhere (unedited original Star Wars Cut!!!!!!!;)) they are generally not worth much if anything these days :(
 
I binned well over 1000 tapes last year.

My brother took the lot to a car-boot the Sunday before I scrapped em and put them up for 20p each.

He sold 4.....

I say keep hold of em until November 5th and donate em to the local bonfire...
 
Steve2000 said:
If you put the lot of them on ebay and sell them as a job lot for about 5-10 quid then you may get a buyer. Other than that, file them under B/I/N.
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I considered that for the Star Trek collection, but we're talking a huge box and probably 25kg. I don't even want to know what the courier fee for that would be, and it's not even close to a complete collection anyway.

I don't think I've got much that's rare enough not to have turned up on DVD somewhere.

Edit - Oh, I've got 10-15 laserdiscs too (and a player for them). Now those are rare, but probably still worthless.
 
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Keep the tape for practical joke purposes - makes great stuff to entirely wrap a colleague's PC/chair/desk/office in - depending on how long they take for a lunchbreak ;)

In practical terms though, they're worthless.
 
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