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When I was visiting my sister in San Jose, I was trying to operate her combination DVD and VCR player. I was trying to eject a DVD I had put into it, but I pushed the VCR eject button instead. In it was a VHS copy of one of her FAVORITE movies, Yellow Submarine. I tried to push it back in like always, but it wouldn't. It got stuck in the VCR and it got destroyed. I've been punished for a week since then (I'm off punishment now, since it happened like a few months ago), but I've been charged with finding a replacement DVD.

Unfortunately, the DVD has been LONG since out of stock and out of print. Where can I go to get a replacement? I'm thinking that I can only get a replacement DVD through eBay. My mom said she would get it and all I had to do was pay her back, but no one has even bothered about it, like I have. I'm beginning to think that the only way I'll get this job done is if I do EVERYTHING myself. But I've never had any experience at all with buying from eBay.

So what should I do? How can I get a replacement DVD that's out of stock and out of print?

Amazon lists it starting at 85 and ebay express has 4 copies for around the same

Yeah... it looks like short of paying $80+ you are S.O.L. Your best bet would probably be eBay at this point.

SpringHeelJack wrote:Yeah... it looks like short of paying $80+ you are S.O.L. Your best bet would probably be eBay at this point.

Yeah, but unfortunately, I've never had ANY experience with eBay, not doing any of it on my own anyway. When I wanted something there, I got my parents to do it.

What's more, a lot of them come from Thailand of all places and I'm trying to steer clear of those ones, and any ones whose prices are italicized (that means that they're from abroad).

My question is, should I try and get the DVD on my own or ask my parents? I sometimes email the auction pages to my mom, but we don't go much further than that. I'm beginning to think that I'll have to sign up with eBay and do everything myself.

Given that it's been a few months since you wrecked the tape, that you only got punished for a week, and that your parents haven't bothered to search for a replacement, it sounds like your sister doesn't really want/need a replacement anymore. If she really did, she'd be the one pestering her parents to get it, not you. Let her do all the e-bay worrying, just front up the money when they buy it.

Scaps

Escapay wrote:Given that it's been a few months since you wrecked the tape, that you only got punished for a week, and that your parents haven't bothered to search for a replacement, it sounds like your sister doesn't really want/need a replacement anymore. If she really did, she'd be the one pestering her parents to get it, not you. Let her do all the e-bay worrying, just front up the money when they buy it.

Scaps

Actually, she reminded me a few days before she and her new husband came at Thanksgiving. She called us by phone to explain that she was coming and when she talked to me, she reminded me about the tape. She is a BIG Beatles fan and LOVES that movie to no end. And since I was the one who wrecked the tape, she was pestering *me* to replace it for her.

I certainly hope they put out a 2-disc 40th anniversary edition DVD of that movie soon. Anyone heard anything?

considering it was a vhs tape I would not blame you, she probably played it so much and wore it outso it was bound to happen

Ya know, you destroyed a VHS, not a DVD...

First of all, I agree that it was probably worn out and bound to happen, and second of all, it seems like you pushed the tape back in the machine just like people do all the time. I presume you had permission to use the DVD player...

You didn't take it out and pound on it or something... My point being, They shouldn't be treating you like it was something you did on purpose, or even on accident by getting into something you shouldn't have...


Also, if you destroyed a VHS, then replace a VHS, not a DVD...

The DVDs are out of print and very expensive, the VHS versions are around 25-30 bucks at Amazon...

littlefuzzy wrote:You didn't take it out and pound on it or something... My point being, They shouldn't be treating you like it was something you did on purpose, or even on accident by getting into something you shouldn't have...


Also, if you destroyed a VHS, then replace a VHS, not a DVD...

The DVDs are out of print and very expensive, the VHS versions are around 25-30 bucks at Amazon...

Maybe you should explain that not to me, but to the ones who made me suffer: namely, my mom and my sister.

Anyway, the truth is, if I was the one who did it, whether or not it was accidental doesn't matter to them; if I did it, I'm still forced to suffer the penalty.

As for replacing the VHS... well, that doesn't really matter anymore, because one of the things we got for Christmas is a DVD burner, with which you can record stuff on VHS onto DVD. And after giving that some thought, I've decided that that's what I'll do to solve the Yellow Sub VHS problem. We have a copy of our own, so it just might work. What I'm gonna do is take the YS VHS of our own and burn it onto a blank DVD. And then I'm gonna give that DVD to my sister.

Of course, I just hope I don't get into even more trouble. How could I get into more trouble, you ask? Well, have you ever heard of a little something that people find objectionable called "copyright infringement"?

But it's a private copy, so there is no problem and it is allowed to make a backup copy of a movie if you don't have to crack the copy protection and as far as I know VHSs don't have them, so it's okay.

I'm pretty sure Dottie is right. If you buy the VHS, you can burn it to a DVD so long as it's for your own personal use. Just don't like wave it around or sell copies to people.