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Does anyone know any good places to sell or exchange DVDs? Like actual stores?

I know FYE sucks in general as far as getting some money back. Luckily the DVDs I'm trying to sell I'm not expecting to get much back. But there are a few Harry Potter DVDs in the bunch that I would hope to get a few bucks back on each of them.

Has anyone tried selling back at Disc Replay? I have a couple of them in my area.

toonaspie wrote: Has anyone tried selling back at Disc Replay? I have a couple of them in my area.

They have a very fair return on when you trade stuff in or get cash...very reasonable compared to fye or a pawn shop. The one near me is an hour away so I havn't been there since over the summer...

There is always Craig's List. I have had a lot of luck selling DVD's there and very quickly. I had what I thought were "ho-hum" titles, 20 in all, and offered them for best offer.

Five people responded within an hour after I posted the sale, and I made $80 on the sale. So now I am a big Craig's List fan.

Sorry you don't live in an area where there is a CD Tradepost, because they give the best bucks for trade-ins, and this time of the year they give top money for most DVD's.

Good Luck.

disneyboy20022 wrote:

toonaspie wrote: Has anyone tried selling back at Disc Replay? I have a couple of them in my area.

They have a very fair return on when you trade stuff in or get cash...very reasonable compared to fye or a pawn shop. The one near me is an hour away so I havn't been there since over the summer...

Thanks that's great to hear. Yeah I sold like $50 worth of DVDs to FYE one time and only got like $6 and that's when I knew I was done with them. I will definitly give Disc Replay a try then.

I would sell online but it's become too much of a hassle trying to sell at the right price, commission fees, and having to buy an envelope. It's ridiculous. Though in the case of my Fringe season 1 set I know I will probably do better selling it back on Amazon since it's unopen.

Your best bet if you don't have a local store is to go to Craig's List. FYE, etc... are like Gamestop with game trade ins. You get very little for them.

I don't know of any big places. We've got a couple little shops around here that take them. You might check used book stores that buy stuff too. They often have a DVD section.

Lately I've been trading them on SwapADVD. Since stores don't pay much, I can at least pick out something new.

I'd try this but I really don't think anyone wants a used (but in PRISTINE, absolutely PERFECT condition) copy of Cheerleader Camp or Hell of the Living Dead (though it is the out of print Anchor Bay disc). Maybe if I wait... oh, 20 years, that piece of garbage will fetch me $7. And it'll be a long, vain wait for High Tension to go out of print, so I can unload my Widescreen Uncut version... A lot of hype for nothing; I won't even get the $10 I spent at BestBuy back! Not when you could get the same thing brand new for $3 at Big Lots.

I also have a used copy of The Tenant which I know is out of print. A new copy goes for almost $30. But, too many used copies go for under $10. Though I did once get almost $30 on a perfect used copy of Seconds (just a little too slow for me) on eBay... But those bastards charged me $1.00 or whatever upfront and then took another frickin' $3.40 or whatever after I got paid a month later (PayPal took forever to process). I could have KILLED those jerks! Shipping to Norway already cost me $7+. So, in the end, my $40 or whatever final price was knocked down to something like $29 or 30. If only that buyer knew over 1/8th of their money was going to greedy eBay... (The Internet giveth them plenty; I was desperate and broke and needed to buy There's Nothing Out There and Rabid Grannies, both out of print.)

After that experience, I'm not too keen to try it again ever. Anywhere. And my copy of The Tenant is practically new anyway.

DarthPrime wrote:Your best bet if you don't have a local store is to go to Craig's List. FYE, etc... are like Gamestop with game trade ins. You get very little for them.

I usually do Amazon but I hate the increasing commission fees and the hassle of shipping. I'd rather deal with in store trading even if it means only getting $5 per movie back at most.

Never done Craigs List so I dunno how it works.

toonaspie wrote: Never done Craigs List so I dunno how it works.

They have local pages, so you'd post your listing, and then people would email you (you can set it to "anonymous email", so they don't get your real email address, but you still get the emails to your email address), and then you can either meet someone somewhere or have them come to your home to get the items and pay.

FYI, only take cash. That's the safest thing to do with Craigslist, since there isn't any eBay Seller Protection or anything like that. You're on your own with Craigslist. CASH ONLY!

Wow, I didn't realize there was more than one Disc Replay! I didn't sell often but I used to make weekly trips to one back in the early 2000's to pick up some of my first Disney DVD's for cheap. Never had any bad experiences . . . I really loved that place and wish we had them out west too.

I'd like to know before I finally go through with selling to Disc Replay

What's the average $ amt you get back per movie? I have maybe around 10 I want to get rid of. Some were never even opened.

You will have to remove all the cellophane wrappings from all of those movies or most used places won't accept them. So that is good starting point. Remember that in trade you will get more value than if you just accept cash.

Then if the title is one that they have more than they want in inventory they will pass on it. That's why you need to go to Craigs list or even on the internet here in Kansas you can go to fetchtoto.com and sell them. You will get more money if you are selling them outright than if you try to sell them to a Pawn shop or used video store.

Think about exactly what you need financially and then plan from there. If you are expecting more than $4 per disc, you will be sadly disappointed with a used DVD store or Pawn shop. Cut out the middle man, and sell them yourself on Craigs list or fetchtoto.com.

Good luck.

Have you thought about selling them back via Amazon.com Market Place? Another you can look into is Second Spin.com, hope that helps.

Unless you have a Mega Media Xchange in your area, I cant really offer suggestions. They buy used media and electronics and sell them for excellent prices. Much less than what they are new.

too bad the change in hands kinda did away with the repair services.