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I just received a Disney Treasures DVD in the mail and it has a couple of dents. One is on the edge. Has anyone had any luck getting these dents out? If so, how?

Thanks

These tins are made so cheaply nowadays it is virtually impossible to get rid of even the smallest dent without creating another. It may be just something you are going to have to live with.

Myself, I just toss the tins, those don't fit in the DVD player anyway, and they take up to much room on the shelf. The double-amaray cases look just great without being hidden inside one of those little metal boxes.

Besides give it a few years of being exposed to the air and they'll start to rust and go black anyway.

dvdjunkie wrote:Myself, I just toss the tins, those don't fit in the DVD player anyway, and they take up to much room on the shelf. The double-amaray cases look just great without being hidden inside one of those little metal boxes.

Some collector you are

And btw, unless that comment about Democrats in your signature is meant as a joke (in which case, you should consider adding some kind of emoticon to clarify), it's needlessly offensive and inflammatory. There are idiots on both sides... and it's usually the people who say things like that.

As far as fixing the tin goes, the best solution (and the one I've always used) is to avoid ordering such things online. I'll only buy a DVD online if it's a great deal cheaper than I could otherwise find, or if I can't find it in a retail store at all. Treasures don't seem terribly difficult to find around here if you look, and the tins make them more troublesome than most DVDs to have mailed properly.

j_scott_o wrote:I just received a Disney Treasures DVD in the mail and it has a couple of dents. One is on the edge. Has anyone had any luck getting these dents out? If so, how?

Thanks

If you only just received it, you could always return it as the item is damaged, and ask that a replacement be sent in better packaging.

candydog wrote:If you only just received it, you could always return it as the item is damaged, and ask that a replacement be sent in better packaging.

Almost all my Treasures tins were bought brand new, and they came dented in the mail ... severely dented. If you return them because of damage, you'll have to do the same with the replacements because those too will be dented anyway. Ho-hum...

I can only buy my Treasures online, because I've never seen any in stores here. And if there are any in stores, they'll be frightfully expensive. Here in Malta, DVD stores sell DVDs - even outdated ones like the Robin Hood Gold Classic Collection - for over 30$. Last time I saw The Rescuers priced that way. Ugh...

Julian Carter wrote:

candydog wrote:If you only just received it, you could always return it as the item is damaged, and ask that a replacement be sent in better packaging.

Almost all my Treasures tins were bought brand new, and they came dented in the mail ... severely dented. If you return them because of damage, you'll have to do the same with the replacements because those too will be dented anyway. Ho-hum...

I can only buy my Treasures online, because I've never seen any in stores here. And if there are any in stores, they'll be frightfully expensive. Here in Malta, DVD stores sell DVDs - even outdated ones like the Robin Hood Gold Classic Collection - for over 30$. Last time I saw The Rescuers priced that way. Ugh...

I know that feeling. Only one store in my city stocks treasures, and sells them for 59.99 each. And stocks probably isn't the right term because they only order one of each set.

Though I'm hoping that with the new Futureshop in my city, this year's sets will be easier to find and cheaper.

If the DVD's work, that's all you really gotta worry about.

Too bad for those of you who appreciate a nice tin that they tend to get beaten up. Strangely enough, my tins have to be shipped halfway 'round the world to reach me and most of them have been OK (I can just remember one notable exception) - and I've even bought all of the volumes.

Either way, the tins are unimportant compared to the contents, though - in my opinion.

TM2-Megatron wrote:

Some collector you are

I really take offense to that remark. You are always saying that we need to be nicer to each other and then you say something like that.

Like some of the others have stated, it isn't the tins that are collectible, it is the contents of those said tins.

Traveling with my collector's shows in 11 different states I have NEVER seen a tin make a difference in the price of the item being sold. The early waves of the WDT's are selling for the same price with or without the tins.

And I am a collector. And like I said, those tins take up too much room and are too big for the standard DVD shelf anyway. Just toss them as long as the DVD's work correctly.

Well, you left out my emoticon, lol, which does make it sound a little more offensive. In any case, I wasn't being very serious; which the emoticon was meant to denote. Whether or not the things have the tins doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, of course.

However, I don't see the point of actually tossing them; especially those ones that had the individualized number embossed into them during the first couple waves. I don't put mine up on the shelf either, as they do tend to take up too much space on the type of shelves I use. Mine are in a box, individually wrapped, in my closet somewhere; which is fine for me. In the unlikely event I ever want to sell them, it won't hurt to have them. Otherwise, I just like having them regardless.

I toss mine as well. I have been collecting them since the first wave and keep them all in books. I don't even have the cases, just the discs and inserts and lithographs etc. I see myself as a collector of CONTENT not packaging.

I know this counts as sacrilige to some, but I also toss slipcovers and the cases to all of my other dvds as well. There are very few of my hundreds upon hundreds of dvds I have the covers for and those are all season collections of TV shows.

BTW, not to go too far off, why would a canuk from Ontario be offended by a signiture about a US Presidential hopeful? You can write anything about Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper you want. I can guarantee you, no Americans (including this Canadian-born American) will not get offended by it. Why would a Canadian have that much invested in US politics?

There are people who collect comic books, for instance - and they frequently prefer to keep their comics in a nice condition. The same could be said about other collectibles. So please understand and respect that some would also like packaging and pristine packaging on their Walt Disney Treasures.

On the other hand, it's also all right, of course, that others don't care about that particular aspect. The question of space could be the practical reason no to, of course.

BTW, on my shelf those tins don't seem to take up that much more space than the "standard" cases do.

My one year old son smashed a tin over my four year old daughters head last year creating a little more than a dent.

As an ex wrestling promoter I was extremely proud.