Hi I don't know if this is the right place to post this but recently I got rid of my video recorders and just kept the DVD players. As a result all of my past videos are now on DVD. There are some videos in particular which I think may be valuable. The videos in question are 20 James Bond movies and Star Wars A New Hope 1997 special edition and The Phantom Menace. Does anyone know a best place to flog them? Thanks.

I'm afraid they are all completely worthless.

Nobody will buy VHS versions of films that are available on dvd.

As a nostalgic curiosity they may be of interest to a collector in perhaps 10 to 15 years but if you dont want to put them in a box and wait that long your best bet is the bin I'm afraid

The only VHS worth even a few pound are of films or tv shows unavailable on dvd , or things made specially for video , but these are few in number

Sad but true... some charity shops wont even take them... there's no way to recycle them either.

DVD has effectively killed tape stone dead.

I will buy the Bond videos from you. Are they all in good working order?

Hate to agree with the other replies, but if they're mass-market VHSs of already-popular films that are available on DVD, then their value is negligible.

Go past any charity shop and they're *full* of the things. Genuine, high-quality DVD copies of most popular films (that knock spots off the VHSs) are available at generally low prices.

I'd *guess* that certain material not released on DVD (and long discontinued) and/or certain collectable rare early releases might be worth something. But nothing you mentioned sounds like it would fall into that category, sorry.

Proving in an instant that they are not completely worthless and that those who said they are were wrong.

True they are not worth much but completely worthless is too strong, there are still some people who want VHS tapes (my parents for example).

Yeah they are all in good working order. I have 2 Spy Who Loved Me videos, one is unused.

Just don't put them in a box near an open bottle of orange juice!

LOL - and don't tape over Spy Who Loved Me with America's Strongest Man...

My old man loves the bargain second hand video films in charity shops but he won't pay more than £1 for a tape!

How much would you want for the lot?

IMHO the problem with VHS is as much the space that the tapes take up compared to DVDs, particularly box sets. Even if you're not bothered about the quality, prerecorded ones typically hold two hours of material in the same space as a not too small paperback. I mean, does your Dad keep them after he's watched them, or donate them back to the shop?

If the latter, does he have a massive pile of VHSs now?

If you look at box sets, they're actually ridiculously cheap compared to what buying the equivalent VHSs would have cost. You can buy "The Professionals" TV series complete on 16 DVDs for under 30 quid from Amazon. There would have been about 32 VHSs (at 2 hours each), and who wants a massive pile of tapes on their shelf?

I'd guess this is why (as someone else said) many charity shops aren't accepting them. There's a glut of unwanted tapes and few people after them, so they probably don't sell for that much. If they're worth a quid at most (and possibly less), there has to be a line where they could make more profitable use of their display space.

£30 for the whole lot.

They are worthless because the postage to send them will cost more than they are worth.

Just because someone on here wants them does not change the fact that charity shops and boot salers are lucky to get 20p each for them

If my local charity shops could find people willing to pay £1 for VHS tapes they would probably stock them instead of refusing to and saying they waste too much space.

My local charity shops charge £1 for dvd's which seems fair when Play and Amazon often do decent titles for £2.99 brand new

Is postage included in that?

How times change.

In the early 80's I remember paying £20 for Jesus Christ Superstar in a Woolworth's sale. At that time I think films on video cost over £50.

I though the £20 was well spent because the intention was to sellotape the hole at the back and record on it because blank tapes were about £18 each.

I'll cancel my trip to Antiques Roadshow.

Yes, but then he is a hoarder anyway and has a garage wall to ceiling with all sorts of bric-a-brac.

I tried to sell my Evil Dead trilogy a few years back and had no takers.

I used freecycle instead. I gave away a large box full of pre-recorded sci-fi and horror to someone who was chuffed to bits. Saved the pain of binning them!

Thats normal.

Despite the odd goings on above , if material is available on dvd then the VHS is worth a few pence at best.

However , there are some things that can still fetch double figures especially made for video specials that are unlikely ever to appear on dvd.

I bought a set of the original 70's version of The Famous Five to copy to dvd and paid more than £30 .

Once I'd copied them I sold them for an even higher price as I supplied dvd copies to the buyer aswell as the original tapes.

Things like that are still worth getting.

At the moment I have 3 VHS tapes of Have I Got News For You and the Only Fools and Horses Selection Box that I will be transferring to dvd .

None are out on dvd

Isn't Only Fools and Horses' complete run out on DVD yet?

At any rate, I do agree with what you say in general (I said something similar above!) Certain things like the HIGNFY tapes you describe probably won't be released on DVD.

OTOH, they may be digitised and distributed via, er... unofficial online channels.

I'm curious as to how many tapes would be worth a lot of money regardless of how widely available the content was - i.e. because they were the VHS equivalent of "first editions". I suspect that probably not that many, but probably a few- mostly from the early days of video (late '70s, early'80s).

The complete OFAH has been out for ages .

But the "selection box" was a tv special in 1996 at the time of the original ending when the BBC took a selection of celebrities including Jeremy Clarkson and asked them to talk about the show , what made it great and their favourite bits.

It was introduced by Boycie in character.

It was released on VHS but I've not seen any mention of it on dvd and as it is way out of date I wouldnt expect to see it but I wanted to put it on dvd along with the Some Mothers and Porridge selection boxes that I recorded myself

Some only fools are cut on dvd - so don't get rid of any episodes that you have on vhs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...orses_DVD_cuts

Here is one solution for archiving vhs tapes.http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224587

I have a few old Queen VHS videos not on DVD (yet) (Magic Years 1,2 + 3; Rare Live; Champions Of The World etc.) and Brian May Master Licks too, but the rest of what I have is absolutely worthless, and already transfered to DVD.
Such a shame that my once prized collection of videos are now just rubbish sat on a shelf awaiting the bin