I've recently inherited a huge cabinet full of the fuckers and don't know how to get rid of them. Is there some kind of collectors market for this?
Might want to call Lightning Fast VCR Repair in Milwaukee.
Would not recommend. I haven't been able to watch my Night Court tapes in over twenty years because of those fraudsters.
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In general, horror movies are the most desirable, that's what makes up most of my collection. Well-regarded movies like Scorcese, Kubrick, etc. will have buyers too. TV recordings can be valuable or worthless depending on what they are. Typical action and comedy movies are a dime-a-dozen and you'd be better off just donating them.
Tapes are notoriously much more fragile than they seem. Also collectors don't tend to care unless it's absolutely in perfect condition or it's something rare that has scenes or something that never made the jump to DVD.
You definitely might have something if you've got rare recordings of TV or movies that never got put on other formats.
psssh no. They still sell them by the bin in the thrift stores here like 10 for $10.
What you want is broadcast TV recordings. Sometimes archivists will pay for those if it's never been digitized.
It depends wholly on what the tapes are, but from my experience collectors don't want them unless they're in the shrink wrap. I have a 1984 "Star Wars" VHS, an unopened one was recently sold at auction for $60,000 and even though mine still has the cardboard sleeve in good condition I'll be lucky to get $40 for it.
IMO it would be more productive to see if your local library wants them or if there's some kind of museum for them.
so you could buy a shrinkwrapping machine and make over 59 grand? (maybe also have to forge a VHS case?)
You could probably try it; although from what I understand when you're talking about high-value collector's auctions like that they scrutinize the shit pretty heavilly, and also they used different wraps back then that I actually wonder how difficult it is to do a real convincing forgery of the wrap. Those older wraps felt so... brittle? I'm not sure what the correct word I'm looking for here is but you don't see the same type of plastic sheeting too often IME. I personally just like it as a shelf piece I suppose, reminder of past passions.
e) also someone who knows their shit would probably be able to tell you're scamming them based off of the quality of the cardboard sleeve; you'd be surprised how detailed this stuff is, you can probably find youtube videos of people looking at CTCG cards looking for edge abrasions etc.
What are in those tapes? Just movies? Or some live video recordings of a cult like in Archive 81?
Did you search the VHS related subreddits? I assume there's some helpful info there.
Sell them on Ebay or whatever. Research individual prices of each title first. Bazinga brains love VHS horror movies. There is def a collectors market.
