Do you loan your Blu-rays out to friends?

[BobbyMcGee]

Originally Posted by Bubba_Hotep

I don't know if any of you remember the Sleepaway camp box set that came out on dvd a few years back, but a good friend of mine barrowed it for a Halloween movie night he was having. I got the discs back all in good shape but the box they were in was gone. He said someone spilled beer on it and it was thrown away. I learned my lesson then.

Sort of the same situation for me as well. Lent a couple of my DVDs (this was a while ago) to a friend. He left the films in the back seat of his car and left the window cracked open a bit. Well, it rained and the discs got wet. Ruined the cover art for both films. After that I stopped loaning out any of my films and I have no problem telling anyone that asks to borrow a film no.

If I don't sell a digital copy on this website I will usually give them to my brother though but that is about as far as I will go.

[PLG1962]

No because I never know when I will watch that movie

For example I'm in the mood to watch movie x and can't because I lent it to someone

I'm very random

[L.J.]

To my family yes. Very few select friends, may be wrong of me but I've told them if they mess it up they buy it. Only trouble had was when one friend spilled motor oil on my Fight Club dvd. He was good tho and replaced it.

[Jobla]

I've had a very simple rule that I've applied to money, VHS, laserdisc, DVD, MOD, and Blu-ray:

"Never loan anything that you can't afford to lose."

If something is out of print or otherwise difficult to replace, it stays with me.

[bkfountain]

nope

had one returned and was told a cat pissed on it. like wtf.

[toodeepuntilnow]

Yeah, why not?

It's seldom that we have friends who also have gone blu, though, so it's rare. With any media, blu, dvd, vinyl... I have told certain friends/family "no" because I don't trust it won't come back or come back damaged.

Otherwise, I trust my friends. I don't accept any bum off the street as a friend. There's accountability there that I trust you'll take care of what I loan you. You damage/lose my stuff, well, I'll be expecting a new one or we will never do business for anything ever again. Not even a piece of paper.

[CReaper210]

Yes. I actually really like the fact that I have so many movies that my friends/family can always find something in there to watch. I've been letting people watch a lot of my tv shows, and people seem to really like those.

No one I know even has any blu rays, but most of them have a blu-ray player for watching stuff on the apps like netflix and stuff, so it's pretty convenient.

And everyone I give a movie to knows not to touch the bottom of the disc and to keep everything clean, lol.
Also, if I have a special edition set(like my Friday the 13th collection or my Weeds set or something), I may take the discs out and put them in a regular blu case just to keep the cheap cardboard from getting damaged.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by bkfountain

nope

had one returned and was told a cat pissed on it. like wtf.

Our cat got up on a table and pissed over my copies of V For Vendetta and Blade Runner. I don't think he liked Warner Bros. or he was a Alan Moore fan ...

[Jasonic]

Only to family members. But I will put the disc(s) in an empty case I have, then give it to them. Don't want the artwork, slip, digipak, steelbook, or whatever ruined. Especially since some of them have little kids that like to mess with the case. In the empty cases I've given out, many have come back broken or sticky.

[trini]

I do to family members and a few trusted friends but i always remove the slipcovers What i dont lend out is my steelbooks, digibooks, Criterion any out of print Collectibles and Limited Editions stuff...

[Leonidas King]

I normally like to share but NEVER my movies! My movie collection is my movie collection

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by minnesota

Putting my foot down now when it comes to lending out movies. I let a good cousin borrow a blu-ray from me (a combo pack so she could watch the DVD) and she returned it with the top of the case beaten up, the clear plastic nearly torn off. I probably wouldn't have been as mad if it were an easily replaceable 1-disc blu-ray case, but these are the 2-disc thin cases that Sony uses.

Do you mean this type of case?

http://www.casetopia.com/Viva_Elite_...br2s-elite.htm

[HonestJohn]

I'm too busy watching Blu-rays to have friends, so no problem here.....

[AmandaBanana]

Nobody ever asks. Then again, I don't have too many friends outside the internet. because I can be a moody b

[Supaclyde]

Originally Posted by AmandaBanana

Nobody ever asks. Then again, I don't have too many friends outside the internet. because I can be a moody b

I don't even have friends on the internet

[deto]

Never a blu. On occasion I'll lend out a DVD if it's from a combo pack, but that too is very rare.

[AmandaBanana]

Originally Posted by Supaclyde

I don't even have friends on the internet

Neither do I! I just wanted to look cool

[tehill]

I'll lend them the Blu-ray, but not with the slipcover

[AaronSCH]

Originally Posted by tehill

I'll lend them the Blu-ray, but not with the slipcover

Proof that the packaging is the most important feature because of the laws of supply and demand!

I will lend the disc only in a keepcase I keep for that purpose... and only if the movie is easily replaceable. And nothing rare or out-of-print.

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by tehill

I'll lend them the Blu-ray, but not with the slipcover

Ha!

Since I toss all the slipcovers in the trash, I'd gladly lend them out.

The fact that anybody would lend out the disc but NOT the slipcover is further proof of the bizarro world of the Blu-ray.com forum.