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I've seen all the Limited Issue discs go for tons on eBay, but have you ever gotten an offer in person for any of your movies?

My mother and I have both gotten offers upwards of $200-$300 for my pretty-good-but-not-mint condition copy of the original Little Mermaid video release. I have two copies, but one was in a house fire. The tape was still safe, but the case suffered a lot of smoke damage. Not to mention it was my home copy, which got played to death. (I eventually switched the tapes...not the cases, just the tapes....shortly before I purchased the 1998 VHS release. So if I wanted to sell this, I'd reswitch the tapes.) But yeah, I was amazed that people wanted SO MUCH MONEY for my little old tapes.

My mom's told me she's also been offered about $100 for other Disney videos of mine. Even my Beauty and the Beast tape in which the case got chewed up on a few corners by a dog got offers of $50. Yeah, like I was ever going to sell it. I'm STILL not selling my Disney videos. No way, they're sentimental to me.

I don't know who made these offers but I deal in Disney Video/DVDs and you
can get those on EBAY for less than $20. I have sealed Beauty and the Beast
video that I can' sell for $15, Little Mermaid videos go for about the same.
Send those people my way I'd be glad to sell to them..
tks,
DG

I've been offered $100 for my sealed R1 firts press 'Little Mermaid' DVD. Haven't sold it yet though.

Back in the 90's, some guy from England offered me $2,000 for my uncensored Japanese laserdisc of Make Mine Music. I still turned him down.<p><img border="0" src="http://japanld.free.fr/cover/00201-00300/00208.jpg"></p>

2,000 BUCKS! and why did you not take it?

SEND THOSE PEOPLE MY WAY!

I'm planning on selling all my VHS first releases for about $4 at a garage sale we're having this coming weekend.

I've researched ebay and it seems like most VHS's (even black diamonds) aren't even selling at $5 a piece.

I can't fathom why people would offer you $200 when they could pick one up for 5 bucks with a few dollars shipping...

JiminyCrick91 wrote:2,000 BUCKS! and why did you not take it?

That was before it was released (censored) in the U.S. It's one of the most rare laserdiscs out there. I have all of the old Disney Japanese laserdiscs, and wouldn't want to leave a hole in my collection. As a collector, I still don't want to sell it. It's only money

Although I've been told that my not-so-mint condition Black Diamond VHS tapes (Bambi, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, etc.) can sell for lots of $$, reality says that many are going for under $10 on eBay.

Things are only worth what people will pay for them!

I'd sell my original Little Mermaid VHS for $100-200 easy! LOL

Someone thinks it's a gold mine because it was discontinued. People on ebay use the word "banned" or "recalled", but that was NEVER the case. Disney just stopped making them, like they do all the others.

Siren wrote:I'd sell my original Little Mermaid VHS for $100-200 easy! LOL

Someone thinks it's a gold mine because it was discontinued. People on ebay use the word "banned" or "recalled", but that was NEVER the case. Disney just stopped making them, like they do all the others.

No, what they are referring to is the rare first release of The Little Mermaid . It was in fact recalled because the artwork on the castle looked like a penis. Disney quickly changed the artwork on the cover. The stupid thing is that the people on eBay are advertising the banned and recalled version, but are actually selling the very common version that most people saw in the stores.

I won't display the picture here, as not to offend anyone, but you can click the links below to see it. Most people don't have this, but if you do, you could sell it for big bucks.<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdi ... JPG</a></p>
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JiminyCrick91 wrote:2,000 BUCKS! and why did you not take it?

My exact thoughts. I would have sold it so fast the cash might have burned for the extreme friction with the air.

mvealf wrote:

Siren wrote:I'd sell my original Little Mermaid VHS for $100-200 easy! LOL

Someone thinks it's a gold mine because it was discontinued. People on ebay use the word "banned" or "recalled", but that was NEVER the case. Disney just stopped making them, like they do all the others.

No, what they are referring to is the rare first release of The Little Mermaid . It was in fact recalled because the artwork on the castle looked like a penis. Disney quickly changed the artwork on the cover. The stupid thing is that the people on eBay are advertising the banned and recalled version, but are actually selling the very common version that most people saw in the stores.

I won't display the picture here, as not to offend anyone, but you can click the links below to see it. Most people don't have this, but if you do, you could sell it for big bucks.<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/disney_laserdi ... JPG</a></p>
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Yep I've got that one. It really does look like a penis on the cover. They found out the artist put it in there as a joke and thought no one would notice. Once my mom heard they had banned it she went back and looked and it really does look like a penis!!!

This was the first one I was going to sell since I thought it'd be worth a lot. But when doing an advanced search on ebay of completed items the highest I saw it recently go for was $15 and the lowest was $1.04. I'd rather hold on to it for that price!!

Someone offered my mom $5 for a VHS Pinochio at a yard sale. She sold it without hesitation.

Hi,

I wish that somebody would offer me $100-$200 for my Little Mermaid VHS. i would take it in a sec. But I doubt anybody would, because when I was little I would sit and watch the movie and chew on the insert and now a whole piece of the coverart is missing

Disney Guru wrote:I was little I would sit and watch the movie and chew on the insert and now a whole piece of the coverart is missing

Hey, DG..how "young" were you when you would "sit and chew"?
You seriously, chewed out the coverart! Post a pic man!

RJKD23 wrote:

Disney Guru wrote:I was little I would sit and watch the movie and chew on the insert and now a whole piece of the coverart is missing

Hey, DG..how "young" were you when you would "sit and chew"?
You seriously, chewed out the coverart! Post a pic man!

Hi it was when I was 2-4, that i would sit and chew things to bits. I was an evil little mackerel lol.

Ok,

Krystal you asked to see a pic so here it is.

You can tell by the pic where I chewed the artwork.

When I was 2-4, my sister Jessie nicknamed me the "Destroying Angel"

Here's the pic:

What the heck man! Looks like a dog chewed on that!
You totally took off the Black Diamond logo!
Then again, you did say...you were an "evil little mackerel"!

RJKD23 wrote: What the heck man! Looks like a dog chewed on that!
You totally took off the Black Diamond logo!
Then again, you did say...you were an "evil little mackerel"!

lol, I know. I think it is gross,that is why I keep the video in a box in my closet so I don't have to see what I did to the case when I was little. That isn't half as bad though as what i did to the cover on Peter Pan, I chewed up the whole cover, my mom bought me a nother video but I had to promise not to chew up the cover lol.

mvealf wrote:

JiminyCrick91 wrote:2,000 BUCKS! and why did you not take it?

That was before it was released (censored) in the U.S. It's one of the most rare laserdiscs out there. I have all of the old Disney Japanese laserdiscs, and wouldn't want to leave a hole in my collection. As a collector, I still don't want to sell it. It's only money

Even though only very few Disney LDs (all of them Japanese, I think) had a market value in the $2,000 range, quite a few more titles that were OOP on LD would go for $200-300. I remember 8-10 years ago that older LD of titles such as Bambi, Peter Pan, L&T, Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid had prices like that before they were finally rereleased in the late 90s.

I think the biggest money I ever handled for one single title was in the $250 range for a copy of TLM. I was able to sell it with reasonable profit before the market went downhill.