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dinosaur66

i have a similar expiereance on ebay-never done amazon

dvds/audio books/cds/comics / has always been what i have sold because its what my hobby is and am a big collector of, but it is a line that has crashed and 99% have no value

i still do it because i like the thrill of the hunt getting something for my own collection / and to give me an interest in retirement

i do not require the money anymore so treat it as a kind of game .

like you i gave away 30k in number not value of cds and dvds on facebook market place for free-advertised them 1500 at a time as that goes in a small to medum size car and they all went within a few months and i was gratefull to finally have a stockroom that i do not have to move 200 fruit boxes looking for a single item.

i could sell a few lines that i am an expert on ebay but as i have no interest in the products and i would imagine they all have high returns rates like mens and womens shoes / i stick to what i like /

friday i bought up a large political cartoon newspaper 2020 satire book / heavy and bulky / in my local charity shop / just to read and flick through

looked it up on ebay out of curiosity and there were 10 of them at £2 approx with free postage .

 

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dinosaur66 said:

when i was selling vhs video tapes on ebay in 2001 about 10% of all the titles listed on ebay uk were mine and a first class parcel cost £1.15 to post a vhs video 

VHS is an interesting one as everybody dumped their tapes when DVD came along but we've gotten to the point that no one really has any nowadays unless they collect them and some of the prices are surprising. 

Obviously pre-cert and notably "video nasties" command a price but I saw a big box version of Rambo sold for £30 on eBay a few months back, a couple of years ago someone paid £40 for a sleeve on a video you couldn't give away for £1 + post 20 years ago. 

In theory DVD should do the same, but the volume of DVDs ever manufactured is obviously greater and the studios have been very clever, the type of person with the mentality to collect is after the UHD with limited slipcover and booklet rather than the discontinued product, they've come up with away to sell a new product to the type of person who would have previously collected something second hand that was no longer produced.

Now companies like Arrow just pump them out, all very generic, nothing special and ultimately not that limited really so the person collecting has lost that thing that makes it a joy, hunting around to find a piece of treasure. 

Same with Lego really, they just pump the sets out (around 900 new releases this year) and it feels like there is an ever increasing push to buy the latest release (particularly with all the videos on Youtube, etc) rather than to take the time to enjoy what you already have. 

Above is no relevance to the OP really, but it does feel like everything has become a bit soulless, maybe it was always this way or maybe I'm just getting older, but internet retailing seems to have pushed it to the limit of being completely soulless now. 

dinosaur66

i stopped selling vhs on ebay/street markets in 2002 / found the switch over hard for quite a few years and stopped selling on ebay as dvds were easy to sell but profit margins were very small to non exsistent

my supplier on vhs in the 80s was all the small shop rental shops that were absolutley everywhere in london and in the  90s was cash converter main offices in lewisham and also there smaller branches all over london where i was allowed into the store rooms /  i used to buy a van load and sell on markets 6 days a week

vhs went off a cliff in just a few months / one month still selling well / next month worthless and from memory very cheapest dvds i could pick up were £5 each in 2002/2003  era.

i see some of the prices vhs can still attract but as you say it is all pre certs /nasties and everyone i look at has oxydised on the spool

i was in chelmsford cex today had 100s of arrow/video 88 label 70/80s explotation /cult/horror blu ray  but just priced at £5 and £6 approx showing how the market has crashed as just 2 years ago they were £20 plus titles.

i am a mad collector still but i collect documentarys/ network tv series / obscure cult tv that i grew up with

large bootsales where i go like dunton in brentwood area have large ammount of dealers all hunting for lego/those noddy heads in boxes / comics /computer games/ in fact anything at all collectable/puzzles/old games/toys/books/vintage and like all bootsales / all there at 5am and like me some of them have been in the game for decades meaning someone new tying to come in and buy things to sell on ebay faces big competition.

then you have the charity shops now all listing there free goods on platforms as well

in comparison for example in 2001 there were 10,000 vhs videos listed in total and that was at a time when blockbusters was thriving.