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Is collecting movies a worthless art? (hoarders need not apply)

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Reply #15 on: November 30, 2010, 06:39:17 PM
My goal is to only buy rare movies or movies I know I'll watch repeatedly, everything else falls into Netflix territory.  At $10 a month, it is far cheaper than cable and serves the same purpose.
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Reply #16 on: December 01, 2010, 05:36:29 AM
What sucks with dvd collections is that you end up losing your favorites. You lend our favorite movies to friends who haven't seen them and what they do is not watch it and never ever bring it back

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Reply #17 on: December 01, 2010, 05:47:11 AM
Thats why I never lent out movies... No matter what. Been burned too many times.
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Reply #18 on: December 01, 2010, 01:23:15 PM
Half my collection is from burning people.
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Reply #19 on: December 01, 2010, 03:29:02 PM
Quote from: Stefen on December 01, 2010, 01:23:15 PM
Half my collection is from burning people.

maybe you're the modern day bob dylan, that's how he made his record collection when he was poor.
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Reply #20 on: December 01, 2010, 03:47:06 PM
Quote from: SiliasRuby on December 01, 2010, 05:47:11 AM
Thats why I never lent out movies... No matter what. Been burned too many times.

Don't you just end up buying the special edition that comes out soon after losing it?  I'm not sure how you've been burned yet.
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Reply #21 on: April 17, 2011, 05:38:47 PM
I recently traded in a bunch of DVDs for store credit. I'm replacing some of them with Blu-Rays eventually, but others I hadn't watched in years and I decided to get rid of them.

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Reply #22 on: April 17, 2011, 05:52:48 PM
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Reply #23 on: April 17, 2011, 06:39:17 PM
$135 store credit. It won't cover all the Blu-Rays I want to get to replace certain DVDs, but its a good start. I plan on further clearing out titles that I haven't watched yet. My DVD collection right now is like a depressing monument to where I spend a lot of my money.

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Reply #24 on: April 17, 2011, 07:19:14 PM
Where do you do that?

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Reply #25 on: April 17, 2011, 10:17:13 PM
There's a chain in the Dallas area called Movie Trading Company.

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Reply #26 on: October 06, 2011, 12:43:21 PM
Quote from: Ravi on April 17, 2011, 05:38:47 PM
I recently traded in a bunch of DVDs for store credit. I'm replacing some of them with Blu-Rays eventually, but others I hadn't watched in years and I decided to get rid of them.

I do this all the time. When my dad gave me his huge DVD collection of action movies starring Sylvester Stallone, etc I was like "Halleluljah! I will trade this shit for some weird pretentious stuff!" and went crazy in the store. I don't even buy movies anymore.

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Reply #27 on: October 06, 2011, 05:17:37 PM
I was going to put all my Criterion DVD's on Ebay but found out I could only get $3-$4 for each one. It's not even worth it. Collectors items my ass.
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Reply #28 on: October 06, 2011, 09:40:24 PM
Quote from: S.R. on October 06, 2011, 05:17:37 PM
I was going to put all my Criterion DVD's on Ebay but found out I could only get $3-$4 for each one. It's not even worth it. Collectors items my ass.
$3-$4? I have never seen even used Criterion at that price. If you have any OOP there are a lot of people (I think?) who would pay a nice sum.
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Reply #29 on: October 06, 2011, 10:26:28 PM
i sold a good amount of mine on amazon for reasonable prices.
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