To want to sell my old DVDs

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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

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

It's what happens.

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

Me too
my dc has sn and still wants DVDs

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 😉

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.

Do you feel better now? I hope so.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Try cex

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

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.

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.

Music Magpie accepted a grand total of 3 of my DVDs and offered a sum of 28p 🤣🤣
and one was a full season box set’

I ended up just chucking all the plastic cases into my plastic recycling bin and I think the actual discs went in the normal rubbish.

I kept a few “sentimental” ones - which is silly really because my DVD player isn’t even connected to the tv I purchased 3 years ago - the wires are still dangling out the back!

Just Chuck them - or maybe children’s ones could be offered to schools, preschools where internet has so many blocks that sometimes they resort to the old fashioned way!

@SkaneTos I admit I still have a VHS which I will not let go of - just a little Christmas video that I will not be parted with that I watched every year since birth and is now actually quite rare and I dread the day that my old video tv combo ) that’s stashed under the stairs and not even tuned in) fails on me!

Nobody buys DVDs any more

I do. I buy CDs, too. Quite a few of us on this thread do.

About Music Magpie ... it's worth checking your more obscure titles, if you have any, because the prices they offer for the rarer ones can be quite good.