Do you loan your Blu-rays out to friends?

[KarmaNL]

you do not have to loan something out that you love/ cherish/collect.

Its like someone coming over to your house and asking you if they can screw your girlfriend. When you say no they get pissed off and leave.

Same thing basically

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

I remember lending out my Nintendo 64 controller to one of the guys in my neighborhood and it was only to be for an hour or two for them to play their game. Hours turned to days and about 2 weeks passed and I finally saw the guy at school and asked him for it. He said Junior has it.

I never got it back and Junior whoever he was probably pawned it off.

I forever have that in the back of my head when lending things out.

[koover]

Originally Posted by KarmaNL

you do not have to loan something out that you love/ cherish/collect.

Its like someone coming over to your house and asking you if they can screw your girlfriend. When you say no they get pissed off and leave.

Same thing basically

Funny. Not even close. If I posted something like that, you might as well and go for it cause she won't be around anymore.
Maybe borrowing money would be a good comparison? Basically?

[nottu77]

I have no problem lending people my movies. I simply tell them that movie would cost "xx.xx" if anything happens to it, and make sure they understand that they are responsible for it. If it doesn't come back or comes back screwed up, they either pay for it or find a new friend.

[wonkavision]

I used to and happily at that. However, people suck. They really do. I don't get the lackadaisical approach to borrowing things and being an absolute irresponsible stain on humanity on returning them. It also is a terrible position to put the loaner in to literally go after and nag to get the return back, which somehow makes me look like the bad person.

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by nottu77

I have no problem lending people my movies. I simply tell them that movie would cost "xx.xx" if anything happens to it, and make sure they understand that they are responsible for it. If it doesn't come back or comes back screwed up, they either pay for it or find a new friend.

I tell them I break thumbs and stomp ankles.

[Talzin78]

Of course I lend my collections out, Books, Movies, Cd's. Why else would I have them? Just to sit on a shelf and look pretty? If my friends or family want to borrow something that is ususually fine by me unless it's new and I want to watch it and haven't had a chance yet. Friends, friends, and new friends are completeley different, I don't know them enough to trust them.
And I have some neices I wont lend to anymore because of returned damaged movies butt the loss is on me, I lent it to them.
Also the movie borrowing has decreased dramatically since I started a digital collection and set up some friends and family with access.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Talzin78

And I have some neices I wont lend to anymore because of returned damaged movies butt the loss is on me, I lent it to them.

You are allowing yourself to be taken advantage of! Whomever you lend your personal items to, they are totally responsible if anything happens to it, while it's in their possession. If the item is returned to you damaged, and not in the same condition when it was borrowed, then the person is held liable to replace, or pay for the damaged material(s).

[Talzin78]

Originally Posted by slimdude

You are allowing yourself to be taken advantage of! Whomever you lend your personal items to, they are totally responsible if anything happens to it, while it's in their possession. If the item is returned to you damaged, and not in the same condition when it was borrowed, then the person is liable to replace, or pay for the damaged material(s).

The way I see it I lent it to High School Teenage Girls...my bad.
Their just material things, family and friendship is much more important to me than a movie.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Talzin78

The way I see it I lent it to High School Teenage Girls...my bad.
Their just material things, family and friendship is much more important to me than a movie.

Hard earned money is hard earned money whether it's in a BD or something else.

[Steedeel]

To answer the question, nope I would never loan out my collection.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Talzin78

The way I see it I lent it to High School Teenage Girls...my bad.
Their just material things, family and friendship is much more important to me than a movie.

This is true, but still family members, and close friends should take care, and be responsible for items that they borrow.

[Talzin78]

Originally Posted by slimdude

This is true, but still family members, and close friends should take care, and be responsible for items that they borrow.

And for the most part that is true, %99 of my collection is in excellent condition after being lent out. But I loaned some DVD's to High School Girls and should have known better.

[Doughoef]

So we recently went on vacation and without my knowledge my daughter grabbed a bunch of blu rays with slips to watch the dvd's in the car on her portable dvd player. I didnt even know she had them but after a week in thecar you can imagine how the slips look. Of course there were some really good ones like Wall-E, Up, The Incredibles and Avatar.

Then I come home to find more were borrowed by a relative slips and all, including some more rare ones. Of course i am wondering how those will come back, but if I say anything then i am the crazy one for caring so much about a "piece of paper". No one understands these have value and are part of a collection.

[Jr7936]

yes family can borrow discs, but discs only in a slim case or in the original case but no slip or anything like that, i even sometimes take out the digital copy code if hasn't been used
i let friends who only have dvd borrow stuff all the time, like the new 300 dvd, cloudy 2, and i don't have a problem with that since if i don't get the dvd back i don't care

[bigred24]

I'm missing a few DVD's from when I was in college letting friends or fraternity brothers borrow the movies. Now I only let family borrow my movies or a good friend that I know for certain will bring the movie back to me in a reasonable time.

[Doughoef]

Originally Posted by Jr7936

yes family can borrow discs, but discs only in a slim case or in the original case but no slip or anything like that, i even sometimes take out the digital copy code if hasn't been used
i let friends who only have dvd borrow stuff all the time, like the new 300 dvd, cloudy 2, and i don't have a problem with that since if i don't get the dvd back i don't care

Yes, I always take the slip off before loaning it and I don't really care if I loan a dvd. One time I loaned a blu ray to a family member without the slip and the cover came back all scratched and dull. I thought to myself, what the heck did you do with this???

[Chiefy]

Originally Posted by Doughoef

[Show spoiler]So we recently went on vacation and without my knowledge my daughter grabbed a bunch of blu rays with slips to watch the dvd's in the car on her portable dvd player. I didnt even know she had them but after a week in thecar you can imagine how the slips look. Of course there were some really good ones like Wall-E, Up, The Incredibles and Avatar.

Then I come home to find more were borrowed by a relative slips and all, including some more rare ones. Of course i am wondering how those will come back, but if I say anything then i am the crazy one for caring so much about a "piece of paper". No one understands these have value and are part of a collection.

It's not so much the movies, slips or whatever it may be, but the disrespect of just taking your stuff without your permission. I had a friend that I had an open door policy with, and he thought he could just "use" or "borrow" my stuff at his leisure. He's long gone; not because of this, but other BS he pulled.

[Doughoef]

Originally Posted by Chiefy

It's not so much the movies, slips or whatever it may be, but the disrespect of just taking your stuff without your permission. I had a friend that I had an open door policy with, and he thought he could just "use" or "borrow" my stuff at his leisure. He's long gone; not because of this, but other BS he pulled.

Yeah, I'm not so mad because in both cases it's family and in the second case I was given a listing of all the movies borrowed which was very respectful and thoughtful. I'm sure they'll come back in decent condition but I'm so anal even one ding will bother me. I'm not so anal to take them all off and put them in a closet, but I may try to replace a couple of them.

[Doctor.Who]

I stopped letting friends burrow stuff when the BluRay and/or the DVDs came back scratched