Selling your dvd collection - Blu-ray Forum

Brightstar · 06-23-2011, 09:09 AM

I had a dvd collection for over 12 years and its got to a point where i feel like selling it all off. I have over 100 dvds that i might never watch again plus they take up too much space.

Has anyone done the same?

Steve290886 · 06-23-2011, 09:31 AM

I had just started getting into collecting movies on DVD for about 3 months before I decided to stop before it got too big and switched to Blu Ray.

Sold the lot on ebay and made around £300+ (some tv series etc included). I then put the money back into getting Blu Rays starting with the titles I had sold on DVD.

sandip · 06-23-2011, 09:41 AM

I haven't got a big collection of dvds so its pointless selling what iv'e got and iv'e been collection blu rays for nearly 2 years imo.

Blu_Ray_UK2007 · 06-23-2011, 09:56 AM

I sold my DVD collection over about 5 years.. most of the money went back on Blu's.

Anything worth more then a few quid I put on ebay.. the rest got traded in to Blockbuster or Music Magpie.

Matman · 06-23-2011, 09:58 AM

Im tempted to sell mine, but only stuff i plan on getting on Bluray.

Like theres no chance im selling all my Friends, Simpsons, Family guy, Fresh Prince, 24, The Big Bang Theory, That 70's show etc to name a few unless they start releashing them all on Bluray, from the first season! not from season 7 like 24.

Brightstar · 06-23-2011, 10:16 AM

you dont get much for dvds

CJPowers · 06-23-2011, 11:48 AM

I've sold all of my DVDs over the past couple of years. I use Film Vault who are a great company with superb service, they even collect your collection free of charge which is a massive help too. I highly recommend them especially if you're selling as a job lot.

http://www.filmvault.co.uk/

NicWhit · 06-23-2011, 12:38 PM

Sold mine at work, did most of them on a "6 for £5" offer and cleared out 75 DVDs in under a week.
Trebled the money musicmagpie.co.uk were offering me.

gavinh2008 · 06-23-2011, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by NicWhit

Sold mine at work, did most of them on a "6 for £5" offer and cleared out 75 DVDs in under a week.
Trebled the money musicmagpie.co.uk were offering me.

I did that the past couple of weeks, except I charged 4 for £10 for all the good DVDs, such as the Disneys, and £2-£3 each on all the other DVDs, and some just £1.

Thanks for the link CJPowers, using that site now to sell the rest of my DVDs

NeilBo · 06-23-2011, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by NicWhit

Sold mine at work, did most of them on a "6 for £5" offer and cleared out 75 DVDs in under a week.
Trebled the money musicmagpie.co.uk were offering me.

Thats what Im thinking of doing, failing that might do a car boot sale. Its not worth trading them in anywhere - most titles you would be lucky to get 50p for.

Brightstar · 06-23-2011, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by NeilBo

Thats what Im thinking of doing, failing that might do a car boot sale. Its not worth trading them in anywhere - most titles you would be lucky to get 50p for.

your lucky to get 30p let alone 50p at cex

Ispoke · 06-23-2011, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by CJPowers

I've sold all of my DVDs over the past couple of years. I use Film Vault who are a great company with superb service, they even collect your collection free of charge which is a massive help too. I highly recommend them especially if you're selling as a job lot.

http://www.filmvault.co.uk/

Went the same route and sold as job lot. Hassle free way of getting rid of the collection, but they do somewhat 'under value' the DVD's if you ask me. Very good service otherwise.

DaveSimonH · 06-23-2011, 03:10 PM

At this stage I really don't see the point, I'm not going to get a fair amount either way so I may as well just keep them TBH.
I doubt I'd rebuy on blu all the films I have on DVD, so I'll just keep them. For duplicates put the DVD in with the blu-ray (get blu disc trays on ebay), and store the empty boxes in the loft.

Coveragentcov · 06-23-2011, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CJPowers

I've sold all of my DVDs over the past couple of years. I use Film Vault who are a great company with superb service, they even collect your collection free of charge which is a massive help too. I highly recommend them especially if you're selling as a job lot.

http://www.filmvault.co.uk/

Do they accept also foreign DVD's? Like Belgian DVD's, but with English subs + audio?

Lithoniel · 06-23-2011, 03:55 PM

I took all my DVDs, save a select few (UK TV Boxsets, Comediens and my LOTR Extended Editions) into CEX, took me 2 trips in a huge gym bag, ended up with over £400, which went towards a new TV!

Could have probably got more splitting them up on eBay or something, but it was something I just didn't have the time for.

Just go for it, you won't regret it!

- Lithoniel

Brightstar · 06-23-2011, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lithoniel

I took all my DVDs, save a select few (UK TV Boxsets, Comediens and my LOTR Extended Editions) into CEX, took me 2 trips in a huge gym bag, ended up with over £400, which went towards a new TV!

Could have probably got more splitting them up on eBay or something, but it was something I just didn't have the time for.

Just go for it, you won't regret it!

- Lithoniel

when did you do that ? anyway like i said you dont get much for dvds at cex but i dont care i had them for too long.

is there a limit to how many you can trade in ?

CJPowers · 06-24-2011, 10:07 AM

It depends on what you're selling and whether or not they're special editions, limited editions etc. My brother sold all of his DVDs recently to Film Vault and they offered £210 for about 180 discs, most of which were special editions and boxed sets of top titles. He could probably have got quite a fair bit more selling individually on eBay but it's just too much hassle. So yeah, they do seem to under value items a bit.

I just wanted shut of mine, so the Film Vault were ideal at the time. Most of my discs were just basic 1-disc versions anyway so £1 each was good enough for me. I'd say stick the better titles on eBay and sell the crap ones to Film Vault.

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Originally Posted by Ispoke

Went the same route and sold as job lot. Hassle free way of getting rid of the collection, but they do somewhat 'under value' the DVD's if you ask me. Very good service otherwise.

I'm not sure about that, you'd need to email them and enquire. It does state "all regions accepted" on the website.

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Originally Posted by Coveragentcov

Do they accept also foreign DVD's? Like Belgian DVD's, but with English subs + audio?

Mr. Brightside · 06-24-2011, 08:46 PM

Sold a lot of DVDs over past 3 years to help pay bills, and a few blus have gone that way too. Only possessions I keep telling myself.

Craig666 · 06-24-2011, 09:40 PM

I have a few I want to sell to make money to buy blu ray replacements. I've been on Amazon. Do people really buy dvds for £47 when the same dvd can be bought from another seller for 99p??

MarcelS1 · 06-23-2011, 04:13 PM

Over the course of 2 years I've sold almost all of my movies on DVD. Kept only a few which haven't been released yet on Blu like Shaft, Red Planet [hope the US release later this month is region free!]

I do however still have a large number of TV shows for obvious reasons. Many old TV shows probably will not see the BLU RAY light of day.

06-23-2011, 09:09 AM	#1
Brightstar Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Mar 2011 Blu-ray collection:39 Blu-ray reviews:4	Selling your dvd collection I had a dvd collection for over 12 years and its got to a point where i feel like selling it all off. I have over 100 dvds that i might never watch again plus they take up too much space. Has anyone done the same?

06-23-2011, 09:31 AM	#2
Steve290886 Expert Member Member since:Jan 2011 Location:Aberdeen, Scotland Blu-ray collection:38 Trading Score:8	I had just started getting into collecting movies on DVD for about 3 months before I decided to stop before it got too big and switched to Blu Ray. Sold the lot on ebay and made around £300+ (some tv series etc included). I then put the money back into getting Blu Rays starting with the titles I had sold on DVD.

06-23-2011, 09:41 AM	#3
sandip Senior Member Member since:Aug 2010 Location:UK Blu-ray collection:78 Blu-ray reviews:2	I haven't got a big collection of dvds so its pointless selling what iv'e got and iv'e been collection blu rays for nearly 2 years imo.

06-23-2011, 09:56 AM	#4
Blu_Ray_UK2007 Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Feb 2007 Location:UK 4K collection:164 Blu-ray collection:782 Trading Score:1	I sold my DVD collection over about 5 years.. most of the money went back on Blu's. Anything worth more then a few quid I put on ebay.. the rest got traded in to Blockbuster or Music Magpie.

06-23-2011, 09:58 AM	#5
Matman Active Member Member since:Mar 2011 Location:Birmingham Blu-ray collection:53 Trading Score:1	Im tempted to sell mine, but only stuff i plan on getting on Bluray. Like theres no chance im selling all my Friends, Simpsons, Family guy, Fresh Prince, 24, The Big Bang Theory, That 70's show etc to name a few unless they start releashing them all on Bluray, from the first season! not from season 7 like 24.

06-23-2011, 10:16 AM	#6
Brightstar Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Mar 2011 Blu-ray collection:39 Blu-ray reviews:4	you dont get much for dvds

06-23-2011, 11:48 AM	#7
CJPowers Expert Member Member since:Apr 2009 Location:West Midlands, England 4K collection:209 Blu-ray collection:573	I've sold all of my DVDs over the past couple of years. I use Film Vault who are a great company with superb service, they even collect your collection free of charge which is a massive help too. I highly recommend them especially if you're selling as a job lot. http://www.filmvault.co.uk/

06-23-2011, 12:38 PM	#8
NicWhit Senior Member Member since:Sep 2010 Home Theater Gallery:2 4K collection:68 Blu-ray collection:276 DVD collection:127 Trading Score:4	Sold mine at work, did most of them on a "6 for £5" offer and cleared out 75 DVDs in under a week. Trebled the money musicmagpie.co.uk were offering me.

06-23-2011, 03:10 PM	#13
DaveSimonH Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Sep 2009 Location:Scotland, UK Home Theater Gallery:23 4K collection:8 Blu-ray collection:2032 DVD collection:981 Digital collection:111 Trading Score:3	At this stage I really don't see the point, I'm not going to get a fair amount either way so I may as well just keep them TBH. I doubt I'd rebuy on blu all the films I have on DVD, so I'll just keep them. For duplicates put the DVD in with the blu-ray (get blu disc trays on ebay), and store the empty boxes in the loft.

06-23-2011, 03:55 PM	#15
Lithoniel Member Member since:Mar 2010 Blu-ray collection:133	I took all my DVDs, save a select few (UK TV Boxsets, Comediens and my LOTR Extended Editions) into CEX, took me 2 trips in a huge gym bag, ended up with over £400, which went towards a new TV! Could have probably got more splitting them up on eBay or something, but it was something I just didn't have the time for. Just go for it, you won't regret it! - Lithoniel

06-24-2011, 08:46 PM	#18
Mr. Brightside Active Member Member since:Nov 2007 Blu-ray collection:76	Sold a lot of DVDs over past 3 years to help pay bills, and a few blus have gone that way too. Only possessions I keep telling myself.

06-24-2011, 09:40 PM	#19
Craig666 Senior Member Member since:Nov 2010	I have a few I want to sell to make money to buy blu ray replacements. I've been on Amazon. Do people really buy dvds for £47 when the same dvd can be bought from another seller for 99p??

06-23-2011, 04:13 PM	#20
MarcelS1 Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Mar 2011 Location:Netherlands 4K collection:21 Blu-ray collection:577 DVD collection:132 Blu-ray reviews:26	Over the course of 2 years I've sold almost all of my movies on DVD. Kept only a few which haven't been released yet on Blu like Shaft, Red Planet [hope the US release later this month is region free!] I do however still have a large number of TV shows for obvious reasons. Many old TV shows probably will not see the BLU RAY light of day.

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