Do you let people borrow your DVDs?

[tomothy81]

I have made this mistake a few times:

I let my girlfriend borrow my Simpsons Season 1, and it came back missing disc 2.Since she is my girlfriend, and I love her, there isn't much I can do about this.

I let someone else borrow The Bourne Identity, and the case was returned missing the disc (unfortunately I just recently found this out when I went to watch the movie and I have no idea who borrowed this).

I Let my cousin borrow a movie, and he is still yet to return it to me. This seems to be the problem when you lend anything to family.

I am a pretty generous person (atleast I think I am) and I usually have no problem lending my things out. With the experiences that I have had lately I think I am going to stop lending out my movies.

The problem is that I have a hard time saying no, and since I have such a vast collection of DVDs everyone comes looking to me when they want to see a movie. I find this somewhat annoying, especially when they want to borrow a movie that I haven't even viewed yet.

So what about you all?

[Disney-Fan]

Not anymore. My Incredibles disk is scratched and jumps the part where Bob jumps in the water to avoid Syndrom's bomb.

[tomothy81]

Not anymore. My Incredibles disk is scratched and jumps the part where Bob jumps in the water to avoid Syndrom's bomb.

Sorry to hear that, I feel your pain.

[cydney]

I don't let anyone borrow my DVD's anymore. I lent one to my roommates and found it a week later lying on top of its case, scratched, with food all over it. If you let family borrow it, they seem to think they can keep it forever since their family. It's just best if no one touches my DVD's but me

[shr_fan]

No I don't think I would. I loaned out a Garfield VHS when I was a kid and it was a couple of years before I got it back, I don't think I've loaned one out since.

[Robin Hood]

Not anymore, I've had too many bad experiences!

[tomothy81]

I also can't stand the way some people handle DVDs, especially if they're mine. I sit there cringing, while they carelessly take it out of the case and load it into the DVD player. It just doesn't seem like people care for things like they would if it was theirs. To most people its just a movie to me its a collection, not to mention my hard earned money.

[Zoltack]

One time my sister asked if she could borrow my Napoleon Dynamite DVD and I said "no way..." No, I'm not mean, I let her borrow it.

[tomothy81]

One time my sister asked if she could borrow my Napoleon Dynamite DVD and I said "no way..." No, I'm not mean, I let her borrow it.

That's funny, because my sister just asked to borrow my Napoleon Dynamite. Obviously I said yes, she is my sister after all, but it took my a few days to get it back. Finally I went down to her room and took it back, it just aggravates me to see how she treats her movies. She leaves them lying all over the top of her television.

[Noriel]

*shakes head* Nope, I don't let anyone borrow my DVDs.

In the beginning of the year, I used to have some DVDs out in the apartment's entertainment center for my roommates and I to enjoy. Well, one roommate ended up moving out and sure enough.. she took 2 of the DVDs with her (they went missing after she left and I looked EVERYWHERE for them).

Also, when I transferred my movies to my room one of my DVD cases didn't have the movie. I panicked. But I eventually found the movie. It was thrown behind the TV.

[tomothy81]

*shakes head* Nope, I don't let anyone borrow my DVDs.

In the beginning of the year, I used to have some DVDs out in the apartment's entertainment center for my roommates and I to enjoy. Well, one roommate ended up moving out and sure enough.. she took 2 of the DVDs with her (they went missing after she left and I looked EVERYWHERE for them).

Almost had the same thing happen to me.

We used to have exchange students living with us, and I let them borrow some of my movies. Well, when it came time for them to move out I noticed that I was missing a few DVDs. Fortunately they didn't get very far, and their lame excuse was that they were confused and thought that they were their DVDs.

[DaveWadding]

Yes, I do. The Disney movies I buy are mostly for my niece anyway, and II only got one copy of Snow White, BatB, Sleeping Beauty etc. So when I want those movies, I have to go find them and borrow them back. Pretty strange. Also, once upon a time, I wanted to watch Alice and I thought the disc was lost....I found it in her DVD player at her grandma's house.

The only thing that is absolutely offlimits from borrowing is my Ultimate Toy Box.

[Leonia]

No way.

Years of lending my stuff to other people (school supplies, personal electronic devices, books) have taught me people don't give a single thought about how they abuse it as long as they get to use it.

(You should've seen me a few years ago when I let an ex-friend of mine borrow my copy of "Goblet of Fire", just days after I got it. I didn't get the book back for another three months, and there were faint grease stains and crayon marks all over the pages.)

[Lightyear]

Only person that is allowed to borrow my movies is my Brother In Law only because he respects how I am about my movies. I hate watching people handle DVD's.. I never touch the undersides.. I'm weird like that I guess...

[Disney Lover]

Generally I don't but my brother has a tendency to let his friends and girlfriends borrow dvds that are mine but are kept with the family dvds. Well he let his friends borrow vhs's and we've never gotten them back and he let his now ex-girlfriend borrow Men In Black and we never got it back. She says she looked for it, she probably lost it. My parents got me a new copy for my Birthday soon after. The good thing is that I got the Deluxe Edition 2 Disc version where as the one she 'lost' was just the one disc.


Tabbi <3

[Mr._Skipperdoo]

I don't borrow DVDs I sort of trade them... so then you have a better chance of getting your disc back in good condition

[Isidour]

only to people I trust.
Last time I let my mother borrow BaTB it take to my unt almost 4 months return it, and a few weeks later I found just the DVD case but I can´t blame my aunt or something because the house maide--la chacha o gata(perra maldita)--left and she stole us clothes and I suspect also this DVD,the 2 DVDs

[Disney Guru]

It seems that there is another thread like this. But no I do not loan out my dvds to anybody. Except my dad's friend The Thompsons, I loan out my videos and dvds to them because I know that they are extremely careful. And I like and trust them. Other than them I don't loan my dvds or videos to anybody I don't even let my siblings use them. And I won't even let my parents use them unless I am the one who puts them in the VCR or DVD Player.

[danamichelle]

No. Under No Circumstances can anyone borrow my dvds. Unless, of course, my parents want to borrow a dvd (they are the only exception). I have seen a lot of other people handle dvds and it scares me.

[magicalwands]

Other than my aunt who is considered my cousin because of her young age and all. I want her to borrow any movie my cousin or her brother do not own. I swear she treats them with respect.

As for my sister, we are getting a DVD shelf for the living room so we have to combine out DVD collections and we both take care of our DVDs.