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An interesting side note on records and bar codes is that for record lp's; the bar codes started in 1979. Elvis Costello's Armed Forces lp has always been rumored to be the very first album with a bar code. I don't know if this is true although I bought the album myself when it came out in 1979 and it had the bar code. You'll never find any album before 1979 with a bar code, so if a record was first pressed before 1979 and it has a bar code; then it's a reissue. Thanks for all the videos you make. I have 1,000's of VHS in storage...will have to go through them when I have time...
@Bruce Wayne's You have to look up SOLD listings only. Active listings mean nothing, since they haven't sold at all. Had you looked up Solds you would see every single one shown selling at the prices stated.
I wonder if cavemen collected things. Once they started creating tools, did they still keep old rocks around? Oh this rock vintage!, very good rock, absolutely a classic, and still in mint condition, hardly used! I will trade you 3 advanced rock tools for 1 classic vintage rock. This rock piece of history, belong in museum.
It sounds like your saying caveman are smarter that collectors??? 😂 c'mon now you know there is a reason people collect things.. A memory it brings back, a moment happiness they can't duplicate, something they couldn't afford as a kid, i could go on and on..but all im trying to say..if you think having an emotion about an item is dumber than caveman.. You need to expand your mind and try collecting something you enjoy and find out why people do collect things for yourself.
Great List! I’m so glad I kept all my VHS for the most part. Some tapes I couldn’t let go of just due to sentimental value. Those Tapes kept me sane during Winter Storms and boring Summers. They brought my family together. There was nothing quite like my brother and I laying down close to the TV, my mom watching from the couch. The glow and hum of the CRT washing over everything. Great times! Check the original release of Killer Klowns. It looks like it’s picked up a lot of steam lately. Even just a regular opened copy.
I love VHS! So many stores throw them out and don't even add them to their thrift shelves. We had the huge Panosonic VHS in the 80's and I recorded Dallas and Days of Our Lives! Thanks for the video.
So true. I had to educate a thrift store here in Sydney about VHS being worthy of keeping and selling. The guy in store said they just throw them out... so sad.
@@rustyblades2566 I agree that is just sad. People do still buy VHS tapes even in the 2020s. What thrift stores should throw out though are heavily scratched discs. Those are worthless.
I know someone who’s grandpa owned a video and audio store, and they found an entire box of unopened vhs tapes in his storage, all straight from the manufacturer, entirely sealed. There was like 50 of them, all assorted. They literally were able to pay for their wedding by just selling a handful of them. I can only hope I’d get that lucky one day lol.
That 3rd Star Wars you showed Return Of The Jedi, I remember that exact same video. I had a cousin living in the US in Albany, they got this for us when were kids. I remember my mother opening it up out of the wrapping, Oh my god if ever I wish I could have looked into the future as it would never have come out of the wrapping at all. What a great video again Don, you never fail to amaze me in the cost of items from the past. Thanks, Don. Charles in the UK
I've built up a Disney vhs collection. Just because that's what I experienced growing up. I thought people didn't really care about vhs anymore since I find them so cheap. Nice to know there a community that also loves them
I paid my rent through college back in the late 90s/early 00s finding and selling VHS on Ebay as many titles were OOP due to the licensing / consolidation of catalogs as the migration to DVD began. Those were the goldmine days...
I did that with my '70s baseball cards. Then years later when I went back to school, it was my record and CD collection. Those I'm in the process of buying back, at least some of them.
LOL Don. Went through a small town and stopped at a used store. Amongst all my wife and i bought, there where 195 good condition vhs. Asked lady, if i take them all could you make me a good price? She did. She then kept saying please come back sir. Put a smile on my face, people are so nice in our field of work :) Then i get this video from you Don, what a coincidence lol. Cheers and thanks Don, Maurice
I'm glad to hear that someone is getting good prices for their VHS tapes! But here in Southern/Central Arizona ALL of these would fetch maybe 10 Cents! Or more often NOTHING!
I'll never understand the appeal of grading a vhs tape. To me they should be watched, held, sniffed and appreciated in all their oldschool glory. \m/ 😀
I think all graded crap is dumb other then sports cards and old comics. I always see the gtlraded video games now and im like id open it up and play it! Ill never understand collectors who do that a true gamer would play it. I think its more of a greed thing nowadays to try to make things worth more then they really are tbh.
100% , graded, sealed, especially something like Star Wars, no I don't care about that, I buy movies to enjoy and watch!!! You are not impressing anyone with your sealed VHS or DVD's.
I still have that same vcr and it still works it's actually the first one I've ever seen I bought it from my friend about 35 years ago it did break but I had it repaired and it really does still work.
The first tv episodes of Star Trek to be released on home video (VHS and Beta) were in 1980 as part of a 5 volume set containing 2 episodes each. These were used mostly for video rental stores. The first single episode "Space Seed" was released in 1982 as part of a special promotion for ST II: The Wrath of Khan. It was also used as a "market tester". These tapes are very valuable and are highly sought after by both Star Trek fans and Videotape collectors.
I've only ever seen the 1985 versions. You crushed my hopes a little because I have a 1981 Incredible Hulk vhs that I thought was the first tv show released on home video. Maybe it was the first 30 minute show? Can't remember if those episodes were 30 minutes or an hour.
When I was a kid in the 80s my dad had quite a few original big box movies mostly ex-rentals and for the uk market usually un-cut, they were pretty expensive even as ex-rentals, mostly war or horror movies, he rented regularly from our local Video store just down the road from us including Death Wish, The Exorcist etc, then suddenly they banned many films he used to rent, what's annoying is the store offered the rental copy of The Exorcist to him no idea how much but he declined as it was a pretty worn copy (doh!), in the mean time I had started my own collection and ended up with over 250 vhs tapes, sadly over time I realised they were all cut to pieces and censored and I always wanted a copy of Death Wish and The Exorcist and A Clockwork Orange, but found it pretty much impossible to get on vhs, the real kick in the teeth was he lost his job and sold his collection off to a mate at a real loss, once he got another job and knowing how rare his collection was I got him to contact his mate to get them back but sadly he sold them all. I of course eventually sold all mine off and now can buy the Blu Rays of all my favourite movies sadly my father passed away back in 2004 and cant see how all his favourite movies have become so available and soo clear with uhd etc
I'm I movie guy and ican't believe how many of these VHS tapes I had as a kid I had every single one except for that piranha and the Nintendo game. Thanks for the video👍🤟
Working in a Charity Shop who later refused to accept VHS cassettes the trick to work them into the shop was stack them in a cardboard box with books piled on top.
Awesome video and information! I NEVER would have guessed that these could sell for thousands of dollars! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and time with us! I always learn something from you every time I watch your videos! Thank you again!
A BOLO vhs tape to be on the lookout for is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The sequel sells well too. The original early pressings are gold. Sidenote: Jim Siedow, the actor who played the cook, was a neighbor of mine growing up. Super nice down to earth guy.
@@Firecracker321g For a good while the *only* VHS tapes that were worth *anything* were slasher/sleaze/cult flicks that had come out from tiny fly-by-night companies (and a couple of movies that got pulled from circulation or something). The more obscure, the more gory, the more money. In fact, if nearly all of this guy's selections hadn't been sealed copies (Okay dude, we get that sealed tapes are worth a lot! Now can you show us something that's worth money when it's *not* sealed?!?) I would bet you that horror flicks even more completely forgotten than Piranha 2 and Friday the 13th part 69 would out-price most of what he showed in the video...
SPECIALTY tapes: Tapes on trains, logging, auto dealer training, trucking, hunting, pretty much any hobby. I ALWAYS pick those up. Also, instructional tapes for any kind of equipment.
I've learned a lot after watching all of your "short" videos and taking notes. Next I'll research each niche to increase the chances of creating my own luck👍👍6 year reseller, new student
My local video store sold a lot of VHS tapes when it was being phased out for DVDs. I bought The Thorn w/ Bette Midler from 1970 and Lady Bear (1980s??, ) sold both on amazon/ebay. Both tapes were with the GIANT boxes.
I have 90-100 unopened VHS Movies that I bought on sale after DVD's first came out. The first three Star Wars Movies. All of the Original Star Trek Movies, The Indiana Jones Movies, Tombstone, Top Gun, Master and Commander, Gladiator, TROY, Forest Gump, Mississippi Burning, Air Force One, A League 0f Their Own, Renaissance Man, The Hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park, The Juror, The Rock, Citizen Kain, Clear and Present Danger, The Perfect Storm, Beauty and The Beast, The Little Mermaid, First Knight, Enemy of The State, A Walk In The Clouds, Jewel of The Nile, Romancing The Stone, and MANY Others. Guess I could be sitting on a Gold Mine!!!
I usually only kept sealed versions of classics. The one that got me started was THE WARRIORS. I have every one 😁 and movies that never got remade on DVD or blu ray.
Why not make a vid about VHS tapes we might actually have lying around the house? There have got to be some used VHS tapes that are worth some money….I got some good money for a 80s Neil Young commercially released VHS, even though it was used.
99.99999% of people arent going to have unused, sealed, 40-year-old, mint condition VHS tapes "laying around the house." Those are $8,000 for a reason. Most copies are worth $5-15 tops
Thanks for adding the captions! I listen on my phone when I am working and it is challenging to see exactly what you are showing. Keep doing what you do, you are the expert and keep getting better. We all appreciate it!!!!
Disney’s Song of the South VHS would be worth a fortune considering Disney’s ban and how they destroyed hundreds of thousands of them and never re-released it from the vault.
I'm glad you did a video about this. There is some caution though- I've been a fan/ collector of the more rare and uncommon tapes for many years and some of the horror vhs community members have mentioned shill bidding of certain people who are friends with the grading service. I can't say here or there if it's true but on a positive note I will mention jumping down the rabbit hole of horror vhs movie BOLO items such as tales from the Quadead zone, wizard video texas chainsaw massacre, sun video releases, Rae don releases ( these were low budget movies..sometimes found in a supermarket near the register as an impulse buy) as well as Thriller video ( mostly elvira). This is just a start you could spend days researching but could be rewarding if you find them at yard sales, auctions etc... Thanks again for a great video!
Oh I'm such a collector of VHS tapes. You can buy them in bulk on Ebay by the hundreds. Most are very mint condition, maybe used once if at all. My very first movie I bought on VHS was :Superman The Movie with Christopher Reeves. I paid $75.00 plus tax and I still have that movie, too. It's over thirty years old now and it still works. Nothing wrong with VHS. Great movies were on them, I can vouch for that. I'm still not finished buying them. I think the rarest I have is " Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature. Yancy Deringer was always a favorite of mine. I only have five tapes of that series. The set of the Original George Reeves Superman, Classic! I got em' grew up with watching them. I can't tell you how many great movies is on VHS tapes. Just to many. My library is huge and growing.
I need to thank you for posting this Video. You opened my eyes to this growing fad and it is real. I just made I STUPID amount of money on a lucky find. It sold within minutes. One of the many Holy Grails in the VHS section. If you are ever in Vegas, Look me up. I owe you a night out.
My earliest memory of my local video store was when Terminator 2 came out. The new release shelf was stocked full of T2 vhs tapes and the store had T2 posters and memorabilia. It was cool
Wow I'm just saying thank you, thank you for this evening true powerful video eassy/commentary is indeed in my opinion truth be told the truth and food for thought..Again thank you for your deep point of view
Very informative. I have a bunch of vhs i almost trashed, will look through them. Wow on the Cars vhs. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. HUGS and GOD bless you all 🤗.
I really enjoy your show. I don't get to watch as many as I would like, but I always learn so much when I do. I knew that there was some money in horror VHS from the 80's, but had no idea that some of these other titles could be worth so much sealed. It makes me shiver a bit when I think about all of the stuff I've walked by :\
There's a rabid fanbase for those! Fans of classic old school wrestlig will buy anything. old magazines, action figures, posters whatever. And yeah the regional/local stuff is sought after because almost none got commercial distribution.
Great Video - very informative. That being said, I've always had in the back of my mind to look for the first WrestleMania set of VHS tapes - I've always heard those are the most valuable. I've never seen these in the 'wild'..
Just bought a whole pallet of DVDs, CDs, and VHS! Wish me luck! One thing I'd read is that the older the copy of Star Wars the better because Lucas modified it so many times, the most "original" to the first release in theaters were the early VHS tapes. Never found one.
I realize you are talking to hard core collectors, but most people bought the VHS tapes to watch them, so only the hard core collectors would have sealed tapes still laying around. I have several hundred VHS tapes in boxes in my basement, and none of them are still sealed, because I bought them to watch, not save for 20 years or more. LOL
Great video! The original Star Wars trilogy gets big money on VHS because there is no Lucas tampering a.k.a. Special Editions. I got all three films in the mid-eighties when they were new releases. When Star Wars was first released in 1983 it was released 2 ways. One-as a Rental Only copy & two-being the home consumer copy. The rental copy came in a plastic clamshell case w/ a matching serial number on the case & the cassette. This was a failed theft deterrent. The home consumer copy came in a traybox the precursor to the regular VHS slipbox. The movie basically was placed in a cardboard tray that slid in & out of the right side of the main box. By the time The Empire Strikes Back was released in November 1984, CBS Fox had gone to the regular slipsleeve box. The Star Wars cassette shown at 2:08 is from Spring 1987. Fox had The Five Star Collection going on & Star Wars was coming up on its 10th anniversary. It was Fox first foray into sell through.
I just realized my grandpa absolutely has all the star wars vhs tapes because I remember watching them with my brother. I wonder if he still has them around somewhere and if me and my brother destroyed them lol.
We've a few lying about. I'll definitely look in my local thrift shops. It's hard to say what's worth anything.. dinky toys I've found but haven't a clue what I'm looking at. Cheers for the video, random find. :)
A VHS tape that’s pretty rare is history of violence since it was the last movie released on VHS it was for about 100. Another very rare movie that I think only made it to VHS is Nickel Mountain starring Heather Langenkamp from the nightmare on elm Street movies.
Black Diamond VHS lore began with an articles by several blogs in 2015 and 2016 (BuzzFeed, Tech Times and others). They saw several videos listed in the $1,000's and ran with it claiming these childhood tapes were worth $1,000's. Why it keeps going on is beyond me. When you see some listed for $1,000's and others for $5 or less I am not sure why anyone would think they are going to get someone to buy theirs over the same video listed for a reasonable price.
I have a small collection of VHS tapes myself. Im going to keep them safe. Its good to keep some old things in storage because they tend to get very valuable in time often.
I just noticed your links to other channels, I'll check those out also. I have a ton of VHS Tapes, mostly music. It's funny how young people are figuring out how these tapes are good for recording audio, something I've done for many years. I was a singer and i sang to backup recordings that I i recorded onto VHS. They are so cute with their "new found use" for VHS tapes.
