Slipcover collectors: Don't you get tired of looking?

[RustinCohle]

Originally Posted by DVD Josh

Curious what those titles would be (as a fellow slip collector).

Some recent “slipcover only” eBay completed listings:

The Prestige 4K- $105
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 4K - $94
The Shallows 4K - $80
Star Wars Episodes 1-9, Rogue One, and Solo 4K - $110
Iron Man 1-3 4K - $61
The Avengers 4K - $60
Ghostbuster 1 & 2 4K - $100

[unberechenbar]

It definitely takes time to find slipcovers for a reasonable price for some old releases but it's honestly kind of fun. For example, I recently found the UHD for Conan with a slipcover for $25 on Ebay when the cheapest price I saw for a copy with a slipcover was $40 for several months. My biggest steal was finding a new copy of the UK release of The Prestige for $22. I basically never blind buy hoping to get a slipcover except for new releases. It helps that some people post that their order from a website came with a slipcover (like Looper from Best Buy, which I bought myself). For old movies I either use Ebay or purchase a slipcover separately from the slipcover thread.

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

Some recent “slipcover only” eBay completed listings:

The Prestige 4K- $105
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 4K - $94
The Shallows 4K - $80
Star Wars Episodes 1-9, Rogue One, and Solo 4K - $110
Iron Man 1-3 4K - $61
The Avengers 4K - $60
Ghostbuster 1 & 2 4K - $100

The Shallows goes for that much now?

[DVD Josh]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

Some recent “slipcover only” eBay completed listings:

The Prestige 4K- $105
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 4K - $94
The Shallows 4K - $80
Star Wars Episodes 1-9, Rogue One, and Solo 4K - $110
Iron Man 1-3 4K - $61
The Avengers 4K - $60
Ghostbuster 1 & 2 4K - $100

Wow, I had no idea. I have most of those! Except for Shallows of course.

[RustinCohle]

People are also selling lots of slipcovers for a few hundred too.

This lot of 4K slipcovers only just sold for $450:

[Show spoiler]A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A Perfect Planet
Ad Astra
Avengers End Game
Argo
A Quiet Place Part 2
Batman Hush
Batman Soul of the Dragon
Big Fish
The Birds
Black Panther
Blue Planet II
Break Through
Scarface
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Shazam
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadow
The Shining
Shrek
Shutter Island
Sting, The
Super 8
Star Trek
Superman Man of Tomorrow
Superman Red Son
The Darkest Minds
Days of Thunder
Deadpool 2
The Death of Superman
Do The Right Thing
Doctor Who
Doctor Sleep
Dolittle
Downsizing
Dumbo
Dynasties
13 Hours
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
Pacific Rim Uprising
Pet Sematary (30th Anniversary)
Pet Sematary (2018)
Prince of Darkness
The Protege
Psycho
The Purge Election Year
The First Purge
The Forever Purge
Push
Yesterday
Cloverfield
Collateral
Ford V Ferrari
Forrest Gump
Full Metal Jacket
Gemini Man
The Gentlemen
Ghost in the Shell (animated)
Gladiator
Glass
Godzilla
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Godzilla vs. Kong
Goonies
Goosebumps 2
Green Book
Green Knight, The
Gremlins
The Grinch
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secret
The Hate U Give
Hellboy (2019)
Hellboy (2004)
Hellboy 2 (2008)
Hellboy (animated)
Hocus Pocus
Home Alone
Howard The Duck
Hunter Killer
The Hurricane Heist
Jack Reacher
Jaws
Jigsaw
Jojo Rabbit
Justice League (Zack Snider's)
Justice League Dark Apokolips War
Kin
Man on a Ledge
Monster Hunter
The Mule
The New Mutants
They Live
The Thing
Thor
The Ten Commandments
V For Vendetta
VFW
Vertigo
Voyagers
Inglourious Basterds
Injustice
Interstellar
Invisible Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
It
It Chapter 2
It's A Wonderful Life
A Quiet Place
The Big Lebowski
The Great Gatsby
Transformers The Last Knight

[88Saleen5.0]

There's always an opportunity to get HTF slips like the Prestige 4K on Ebay when the seller unknowingly sells it for cheap without looking at closed auctions. I already have it w/ slip so I didn't look but recently some seller did a buy it now for like 30 bucks with shipping. Had I seen it, I totally would've bought it and did a flip. The slip looked to be in excellent condition too.

I won't get slips for all films. It really depends on the title. If the film was good or popular and collectors want it.. I would pick it up with slip if possible.

[Zillamon51]

I briefly had a dream, when I started buying UHD discs, that I would get slips for everything. But it's simply way too expensive to buy everything day one just to get a slipped copy, and I won't pay more than a few dollars for one on the aftermarket. They are just cardboard, after all.

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

Some recent “slipcover only” eBay completed listings: ...

The Shallows 4K - $80 ...

Shit. I just got the UHD disc from Amazon, new, for $5.00 No way in hell I'm paying 16x that for the goddamn slip.

[bhampton]

I put all my slipcovers in storage bins because they get in the way.

I know I had valuable ones in the Blu Ray era and maybe I have some of those rare ones from UHD BD.

I really don't see any value in them so I don't think I would be interested in selling them. But I guess I should go look and see if I have the Shallows. I think I do have it and it's cool but it may not be in the right condition for anyone who values such a thing.

-Brian

[RustinCohle]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I put all my slipcovers in storage bins because they get in the way.

I know I had valuable ones in the Blu Ray era and maybe I have some of those rare ones from UHD BD.

I really don't see any value in them so I don't think I would be interested in selling them. But I guess I should go look and see if I have the Shallows. I think I do have it and it's cool but it may not be in the right condition for anyone who values such a thing.

-Brian

This I don't understand. If you don't want them personally, why not sell them? People are getting ~$500 just for random lots of 4K slips.

[bhampton]

I had a look through my box of slips and I guess I only thought I had the shallows as I didn't find it for either the blu or the UHD BD. I did find Ghostbusters 1 and 2.

I have been auditing and organizing my movies and I think I may put the slips back on the discs because I have the shelf space. (I can move some of the Blu Rays into the bins.

One of my kids wants to inherit the collection so I may as well do my best to keep it in good condition regardless of what it's worth.

Basically even if something has a value that doesn't mean it going to be worth while for me to bother selling it because that could be a headache and I could easily see the process as being not worth the trouble.

Edit - I put all my UHD slips back on and some of my Blu Ray slips. I took most of the DVDs off the shelfs to go into storage because slip covers take up more room.

[grrrarg]

Originally Posted by weberrygt

I have become less obsessed in terms of having mint slips, but if I see one I will generally get it, but fewer selections in stores has sort of forced my hand to just say ok and let it be.

I'm doing better with that, especially for something not available in stores. A little ding here and there that would have bugged me in the past I'm just letting it go now. Sure we would all love everything perfectly mint, but that isn't reality.

The only one that really bugs me now is my Scooby Doo 1+2 Best of WB Double Feature slip... it somehow got a 1 inch tear on the bottom front when I was moving a lot of Blu-rays around to reorganize. I have no idea how it happened. It used to be mint, but not anymore Ah well. Not like I can just go buy another easily.

[Darmok1004]

All of my 4K’s have slipcovers if they were released with them. My regular Blu-rays I’m not as concerned with the slips.
Some of the more prized ones that I own are
The Shallows 4K
The Good the Bad and the Ugly 4K
Starship Troopers 4K
Air Force One 4K
Cliffhanger 4K
Both Blade Runner 4K’s
Life 4K
Logan 4K
Thor Ragnarok 4K
Since I buy things as they come out, it’s easier to stay on top of it. As far as any older titles go, if you’re patient someone will put up something used on eBay for a decent price and you can jump on it.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Aztek

Hi!

I'm on the same boat and funny thing I was talking to a friend about this(he collects slipcovers too) and we talked about we sure would save a lot of money if we didn't hunt those precious pieces of cardboard in mega mint condition

Sometimes I wish that companies stop making slipcovers, I'm going to complain? for sure but my wallet will be happy

I'm sure eventually everything will become MOD and then we won't have to worry about slipcovers lol

I like mine to be in the best shape, sure, but if I'm not buying it the first week then I'm not going to worry about the slipcover after that... even though there's some 4K releases that I couldn't get at the time that I wish I could get slips for. But mostly I've resigned myself to knowing I won't get those. I try to keep a series going if I have slipcovers from the start, but if I get it later then I'm not too concerned. That's what happened with Hunger Games, they came out before I was buying 4K so I knew they'd be long gone so I just waited for decent prices. I ended up getting them around the same time and the 4th had a slipcover but the others didn't so I just took it off and stored it somewhere lol I think the only one at this point I'd try to seek out slipcovers for would be Harry Potter. Unless they re-release them with new ones before I get around to it.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

The Shallows goes for that much now?

It was 40+ a few months after release from what I remember way back when it was highly desirable since launch.

Originally Posted by 88Saleen5.0

There's always an opportunity to get HTF slips like the Prestige 4K on Ebay when the seller unknowingly sells it for cheap without looking at closed auctions.

This is what I do with baseball/football cards lol I have it email me every morning with newest listings and I check it as soon as the email comes in and you can every few weeks-months get someone who just wants it gone or doesn't know / have time to wait for full value and snag bangers.

I'd assume with ebay you can have it email you for ones you really want and keep waiting for someone to list it up cheap.

[Phil92]

At the start of the year, I had to move back with parents due to a relationship breakdown and my mental health was terrible.

Whilst I was packing away my Blu-rays, I realised that most of them had slips whereas others (in later years, when I stopped buying them new to save money) hadn't. I was maybe missing 20 in total.

Over the last couple of months, I've scoured Amazon, eBay, Marketplace, CeX, you name it, to complete the collection and now I'm 99.9%. Only left with the couple in my signature to find at reasonable prices.

Oddly, that hobby really helped with my mental state. It was the first time I felt happy since once I had crossed off the elusive ones.

[Hitman Horton]

Originally Posted by RustinCohle

I know I do. Take today for example. Looper 4K just came out but my local Best Buy didn't have any with slips. So now it becomes a multiple day hunt. I have to either drive and check other Best Buy's or order a copy online. Then you order a copy online and maybe it doesn't come with one either. Or it does but it got damaged in transit. Then you have to start all over. What should have been a five minute trip inside of a Best Buy has now become a week long journey to find a slip. You also HAVE to buy it on or near release day because if you wait till a sale or Black Friday, they may be gone.

I know I'm not alone in this because slipcovers are mentioned in almost every single thread on this website. I'm highly considering parting with all of my slipcovers and then not worrying about them in the future though. It's getting exhausting being a collector lol.

Full disclosure: I don't "collect" slipcovers. If there's something special about it and I want the movie, I'll keep the slipcover. If it's just the same art as in the case, I throw the slipcover out.

Having said that, I do hunt down other things that I'm looking for and I enjoy the hunt when it comes with the satisfaction of getting what I was looking for. I would only pay retail for something. I don't pay the inflated prices of Ebay. If I can't find it, I didn't need it that bad.

[88Saleen5.0]

Is it just me but does anyone also feel that once they have the slip, they also feel as though they have the movie? Even if it's the slip only? I feel as though I could always pick up the actual movies for much less unless they're OOP. Picked up a number of slips from another seller of movies who doesn't care about slips. I did get a couple 4K slips that were more in demand but not the holy grail ones. Can't wait till Black Friday so that I can fill them out. I got a fair amount of blu-ray slips. Thinking up putting them for sale here to avoid Ebay fees.

[RustinCohle]

Ten months later and I'm revisiting my own thread. Haven't started selling off any of my slips yet, but I have started selling off my record collection. I'm trying to cut down on my "collecting habits." I can never seem to buy just one of something. It always becomes a collection. I think if I can sell my records, I can sell my slipcovers..

[King O.A.]

Originally Posted by 88Saleen5.0

Is it just me but does anyone also feel that once they have the slip, they also feel as though they have the movie? Even if it's the slip only? I feel as though I could always pick up the actual movies for much less unless they're OOP. Picked up a number of slips from another seller of movies who doesn't care about slips. I did get a couple 4K slips that were more in demand but not the holy grail ones. Can't wait till Black Friday so that I can fill them out. I got a fair amount of blu-ray slips. Thinking up putting them for sale here to avoid Ebay fees.

When I buy the slip, it just makes it easier to wait for a huge sale.

[Tony208]

I actually stopped caring about them unless it's for a favorite movie of mine. These days I pre-order almost everything so I usually have the slip already.

Haven't been following them recently, but I guess I have some rare ones