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To want to sell my old DVDs

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NCasOuting22 · 18/03/2024 12:02

I’m trying to have a clear out and have tried using music magpie and we buy books to sell my dvds but all the bar codes that I scan are met with a “sorry we’re not accepting this at the moment”.

does anyone know anywhere that I can sell/recycle old dvds?

thank you

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SkaneTos · 18/03/2024 21:41

I love my DVD's, and I still watch them! (I am 36 years old).
I still buy DVD's.
(I actually still have a few VHS-tapes that I watch, too).

I'm old fashioned, that way.
I feel that when I have a movie or a TV series on DVD, then nobody can take it away from me, unless I lose the DVD, or the DVD-player breaks.
I have TV series on DVD that are not available for streaming.

thecanadianloon · 18/03/2024 21:37

Netflix have ads but you can pay for a premium service (double the cheaper one) for no ads.
We use the portable dvd players when we go away on holiday as lots of places either have patchy Wi-Fi or charge quite a bit more for it.

TheWernethWife · 18/03/2024 20:36

I always pop in CEX when I'm in town and see what they have. Got quite a few recently including Gosford Park £1 and Pirates of the Caribbean dead man's chest 50p

aodirjjd · 18/03/2024 20:32

Try cex

ILoveSalmonSpread · 18/03/2024 20:31

My husband is an avid film buff of around 50 years.
His collection of DVDs is vast.
Many of the films he has have never been streamed or shown on tv.

It would break his heart to hear the comments here but equally he knows that DVDs are all but dead.

He has some absolutely cracking films that won't ever see the light of day on tv.

It's so sad, as streaming services will only show what THEY think is profitable but will ignore others that are superb but a bit dated and/or niche .

It's almost like streaming services are telling us what we would like to see.

Really sad.

HotChocolateNotCocoa · 18/03/2024 20:30

I tried to sell some on a car boot sale recently. Very few went. I put the leftover ones in a box on the pavement with a “Please take” sign. They all went eventually. People would take a lump of shit away if you told them it was free.

CoatRack · 18/03/2024 20:26

gamerchick · 18/03/2024 20:18

Cex will give you a couple of quid for a load OP.

I still buy DVDs. You can't trust streaming services. Internet goes down, they introduce adverts eventually. Can't go wrong with a dvd on occasion.

Sensible take.
Amazon Prime is going to be adding adverts soon (maybe already), and Netflix has been considering it as well.

I really dislike paying for things in perpetuity, and in fact I've been actively building a library of DVDs/BDs for my daughter.

gamerchick · 18/03/2024 20:18

Cex will give you a couple of quid for a load OP.

I still buy DVDs. You can't trust streaming services. Internet goes down, they introduce adverts eventually. Can't go wrong with a dvd on occasion.

ThinkingAgainAndAgain · 18/03/2024 20:17

DS2 has ASD and is still very keen on DVDs. I’ve just bought eight Shaun the sheep ones on eBay. He likes looking at the sleeves and discs themselves as well as watching them, so streaming doesn’t work.

SpringSprungALeak · 18/03/2024 20:15

JaffaCake70 · 18/03/2024 20:09

I threw all of my dvd's and cd's away when I last moved house 2 years ago. Nobody wants them, everyone is streaming now.

@JaffaCake70 you obviously haven't read the thread, some of us do want them, for various reasons

Ruralrules · 18/03/2024 20:11

A local nursing home has taken suitable ones from me.Maybe try one.

JaffaCake70 · 18/03/2024 20:09

I threw all of my dvd's and cd's away when I last moved house 2 years ago. Nobody wants them, everyone is streaming now.

Tezza1 · 18/03/2024 20:06

If you have got some DVDs that are a bit unusual and not available through streaming, you might be lucky on eBay. For example, I bought a copy of "The Caesars", 1968, starring Andre Morell and Freddie Jones, from eBay because I was desperate to see it and, unlike "I, Claudius", was just not available in any other format.

creeashun · 18/03/2024 19:54

I still buy them. And buy music concert dvds for my brother to watch at his care home.

SmithfamilyRobinson · 18/03/2024 19:53

I sold a batch for the princely sum of 19p in CEX - only 1 of which was worth 10p (still wrapped copy of Spirited Away). You get a bit more if you use the voucher to buy more DVDs 😀 (or other tech clutter).

Freakinfraser · 18/03/2024 19:34

Notchangingnameagain · 18/03/2024 18:34

Do you feel better now? I hope so.

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Freakinfraser · 18/03/2024 18:13

It was a valid point though, I mean it’s a very short op , only one small paragraph.

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Do you feel better now? I hope so.

anunlikelyseahorse · 18/03/2024 18:33

Glad our local charity shop still sells cd's and dvd. Kids have my old portable dvd players so they can watch different films whenever they want. Much cheaper buying second hand dvd's than downloading movies. I like my foreign language films / tv series many of which aren't available on streaming services.

INeedAnotherName · 18/03/2024 18:29

lala567 · 18/03/2024 18:16

It's what happens.

Surely you've gone through this before with videos, records, tapes and cd's?

I still buy music cds, one of my Christmas presents was a new cd player. And tbf, vinyls are making a comeback for the more discerning listener.

Maybe hold on to them for another twenty years OP 😉

Samcro · 18/03/2024 18:19

SpringSprungALeak · 18/03/2024 15:24

@naturesform as z I've said, some of us do!

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Me too
my dc has sn and still wants DVDs

lala567 · 18/03/2024 18:16

It's what happens.

Surely you've gone through this before with videos, records, tapes and cd's?

Freakinfraser · 18/03/2024 18:13

Notchangingnameagain · 18/03/2024 18:06

Clearly not. 🙄

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It was a valid point though, I mean it’s a very short op , only one small paragraph.

lala567 · 18/03/2024 18:09

If places like Music Magpie won't even offer you 40p no one will buy them.

Notchangingnameagain · 18/03/2024 18:06

KrisAkabusi · 18/03/2024 15:15

You know that the whole of the OP's original post is that Music Magpie doesn't want them?

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Clearly not. 🙄

Freakinfraser · 18/03/2024 18:05

We gave ours away op. About a decade ago. Dvd players are basically now considered obsolete even though a small percentage still use them,

if your codes aren’t accepted it means they perceive no market for them and can’t sell them.