Where can i sell my VHS tapes / cassettes ?

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  • Loolabell_2
    Loolabell_2 Posts: 463 Forumite
    Hi, i recently had the same trouble i had loads of old VHS tapes...managed to sell them for 20p each at a car boot, not much i know, but if you look on Ebay...they aren't much cheaper....otherwise charity shop??
  • Antispam
    Antispam Posts: 6,636 Forumite
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    Yes true one feature

    Whilst DVD has extras content, chapters and most of all superior quality compared with video which degrade every time you play them
  • Lethal
    Lethal Posts: 299 Forumite
    yeah, me and my fam ussually sell at a carboot once or twice a year. 3 years in 2005-2008 of selling not one vhs at 20p each on a carboot sale we gave up.
    MSE allowed me to see the light
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    Can they be transferred to Dvd ?
    Same with old records, what do i need to put them on a CD
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  • Callum
    Callum Posts: 93 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    Can they be transferred to Dvd ?
    Same with old records, what do i need to put them on a CD

    It can be done, although i don't know how the person would stand in terms of copyright issues.
  • lindos90
    lindos90 Posts: 3,208 Forumite
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    We have lots of childrens VHS tapes, and my mums just upgraded to dvd, so she gave me all hers too, tried to freecycle them 3 times and no one wanted them! Took them to two charity shops and both didnt want them as they cant shift their current stock!:confused:

    Guess everyone has moved on to dvds now.

    Goggled recycling vhs, and they are quite labour-intensive as they have to be opened up and dismantled by hand, and as the value of recycled plastic has reduced, no body wants to do it!

    Found out that someone has knitted a bag out of the tape, but as it has some kind of metal coating on the tape surface, it would probably rust!

    I have two carrier bags in my garage, cant give 'em away!
  • DitaBombita
    DitaBombita Posts: 554 Forumite
    Stuck mine on freecycle and they got snapped up.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    prowla wrote: »
    20p, presumably...

    (Actually, video tapes have one feature over DVDs: they have a builtin memory of where you watched them up to the last time.)

    So has my DVD player (Panasonic). It retains 'last memory' positions and resumes playback from there.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    Can they be transferred to Dvd ?
    Same with old records, what do i need to put them on a CD

    To put your records onto CD, you need your turntable, an amplifier with a tape out (I assume you have these already, since you have the records), and an Alesis Masterlink ML-9600.
  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    googler wrote: »
    To put your records onto CD, you need your turntable, an amplifier with a tape out (I assume you have these already, since you have the records), and an Alesis Masterlink ML-9600.

    All my old stuff is piled up in the corner of the 'junk' room, i've been thinking of dumping it but it seems such a waste.
    I'll check to see can i rescue them.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

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