Selling Question

[geiger167]

I'm UK based and after a bit of advice if it is allowed. I'm aware you can gift movies to someone else in the uk but is there anywhere where you can actually sell movies you own yourself to another person using this method ?

[-Gonzo-]

Not if bought digitally you can’t no.

[geiger167]

I'm just curious, why not ? Is there a practical or ethical issue preventing it ?

[kannibaliztik]

Originally Posted by geiger167

I'm UK based and after a bit of advice if it is allowed. I'm aware you can gift movies to someone else in the uk but is there anywhere where you can actually sell movies you own yourself to another person using this method ?

Not really sure what you mean, you can't sell anything you have already purchased. Gifting a movie just means buying it from itunes and someone else redeems it.

[geiger167]

I'll try to clarify, I have a load of films I bought on Itunes, hundreds of them, I don't want them anymore, I have tested the gifting process by sending a friend a movie I had previously purchased. Can I sell my films to someone Via gifting rather than giving them all away for nothing lol

[-Gonzo-]

Originally Posted by geiger167

I'll try to clarify, I have a load of films I bought on Itunes, hundreds of them, I don't want them anymore, I have tested the gifting process by sending a friend a movie I had previously purchased. Can I sell my films to someone Via gifting rather than giving them all away for nothing lol

But you haven’t gifted a movie you own from your library to another as you still have it in your library, what you’ve done is payed for the same movie again to gift to another.

[geiger167]

Cool OK, I'll forget that then Thanks for the help

[vinncent]

So you mean like selling a $10 movie for lets say...$5 since its used? Make up your own price? If not....why would anybody buy it from you rather than directly from Itunes? Did you really think before you posted this?

[meremortal]

Not being able to trade or sell redeemed codes is a frustrating aspect of digital. At the very least it'd be nice to trade them back to the streaming provider. For example, if you purchased directly from Vudu it'd be nice to have an option to basically return it for partial credit towards another purchase.

[vinncent]

Originally Posted by meremortal

Not being able to trade or sell redeemed codes is a frustrating aspect of digital. At the very least it'd be nice to trade them back to the streaming provider. For example, if you purchased directly from Vudu it'd be nice to have an option to basically return it for partial credit towards another purchase.

I think thats whats renting is for....

[meremortal]

Originally Posted by vinncent

I think thats whats renting is for....

I hear what you're saying. But like any collection, I often like to rotate stuff in and out over time. Digital perhaps requires better planning than I'm used to doing when it comes to movies.

[geiger167]

Originally Posted by vinncent

So you mean like selling a $10 movie for lets say...$5 since its used? Make up your own price? If not....why would anybody buy it from you rather than directly from Itunes? Did you really think before you posted this?

Yeah obviously I meant selling them at a greatly reduced price lol, when I tried to gift a film as a test in itunes on pc there was no gift option, only open in store, I went to the store, then there i s aplay button, with a share option, then gift the movie with a link box to put in the email of the recipient. At no point was I asked for money so I'm presuming in theory it is possible

[kannibaliztik]

Originally Posted by geiger167

Yeah obviously I meant selling them at a greatly reduced price lol, when I tried to gift a film as a test in itunes on pc there was no gift option, only open in store, I went to the store, then there i s aplay button, with a share option, then gift the movie with a link box to put in the email of the recipient. At no point was I asked for money so I'm presuming in theory it is possible

You have to pay for gifts like any other purchase.

[Fiffy]

Originally Posted by geiger167

Yeah obviously I meant selling them at a greatly reduced price lol, when I tried to gift a film as a test in itunes on pc there was no gift option, only open in store, I went to the store, then there i s aplay button, with a share option, then gift the movie with a link box to put in the email of the recipient. At no point was I asked for money so I'm presuming in theory it is possible

You would have been asked for payment in the next step.

From the consumer perspective it would of course be nice if you could gift movies from your library to someone else, but obviously the studios prefer to sell another license instead, so I doubt they will ever allow the digital stores to offer that.

[bhampton]

It's yours forever

until it's not on the server for whatever reason.

[The Watcher 69]

You could sell your entire account like gamers do, but it'd probably be a violation of the terms of service. Plus I gather there are purchases you actually want to keep.