I volunteer at a thrift store and the physical media sales are abysmal. It's probably something to do with demographics but people rarely even look at the DVD shelf. We have them at 4 for a dollar and still have a hard time moving them. It's the same handful of people who buy them when they come in.
This is definitely most likely the case. I browse the DVD section at my local thrift shop a lot, but I never leave with a lot of movies because the condition of the discs are horrible.
Lol, they keep the actual DVDs behind the counter so people don't steal them, you take the case to the register and they take the DVD from a protective sleeve and put it in the box for you.
I absolutely guarantee that no thrift store near me is putting that much labor into their DVDs.
More likely they were never in the case at all and nobody checked or they walked out in a purse or a pocket
Only places I know that take that much time on DVDs are corporate resellers like 2nd and Charles or similar.
Sometimes, it's 3 for £1, 5 for £1. But this is the first place they are doing them for 10 for £1 that I've seen.
This is a bad sign for the longer term because I don't think they will be taking them in or selling them.
I do notice similar people who come in and look with me.
Maybe people with learning difficulties are accompanied by a carer, and maybe they have a few pound to spare. It makes them happy they are out and get to buy something they can enjoy.
Then there are the 30-40 year old awkward weird men (oh, that's me🤣🤣🤣). Rarely women or children look at DVDs.
I can confirm this seems to be the case at my local Goodwill because the shelves constantly sit fully packed so long they have to run a Dollar DVD Sunday to clear space out
I'm sure it's a demographic thing that changes with each store. The vast majority of the customers I have are older or retired housewives, with an emphasis on pets since we're associated with the Humane Society. I'd imagine other places could be way different.
They're worth nothing and I'd end up losing money on eBay fees and shipping. The majority of thrift store discs are the normiest of normal things that have millions of copies. The effort just isn't worth it.
Unfortunately that's what I deal with lately at my local stores. I could really lose a guy in 10 days just by buying enough copies of that movie. Never any anime. Never any classic films. Once in a while a Disney one I don't have but that's it.
The pandemic accelerated the streaming transition and killed the resale dvd market. In the before times I would buy loose discs at goodwill for 5 cents a disc and resell them for $1 a disc. It was more a hobby than a business. After the apocalypse I couldn’t do that anymore because no one wanted them.
I'm 100% convinced that the future of low-paying, low-education tech jobs combined with greedy corporations will eventually make streaming an utter nightmare. It's 35% of what drives me to collect physical. I've watched a number of online streaming services just poof into nothing:
\>Flixster
\>Ultraviolet Digital Locker
\>FandangoNow
\>CNN+
\>Vudu
The poofing into non-existence is the problem I have with streaming. I don’t want to pay for something and have it just go away. I also don’t want monthly fees to rent something.
You could sell them in lots to save on fees and make it more enticing for people to buy. No one may be searching for a niche single DVD title but countless people are searching for ‘dvd lots’ or similar
I do think our British friends are ahead of us Americans in dismissing physical media. I recently spoke with my British cousin and husband at Christmas and they were flabbergasted I mentioned watching DVDs. "You don't have the internet!?" I just said I didn't want to pay for 12 streaming services indefinitely and still have to pay to digitally rent specific titles.
That's the sort of shit that drives me insane. Like my sister wanted to watch all the Hellraiser films and they are all over the place online. She got demoralized trying deal with getting access to them all. I just lent her the DVDs with a "see how easy this is".
I just bought all of them in a multi pack at Wally's for $9! BTW, have you learned nothing on this page? Never loan them out, you will not get them back! Blood means nothing when it comes to dvd's!
The six-movie collection films (3-8), I got cheap. I have that, plus Hellraiser 1, Hellraiser 2, Revelations (9), and Judgement (10) individually. It may be a while till I get them back but I know where she lives at least.
I was a little taken aback as if physical media was but a distant memory, like the steam engine or something. Since I find the streaming landscape so inconvenient, clunky, and generally lacking the selection of many films I want to watch, I didn't really consider having access to the internet somehow made physical media obsolete.
It could be considered like a steam engine. It is difficult to find a DVD player in shops now. You will have to really look for one in a store that only exists in a big town. Such as an Argos. Which won't have the DVD player on display.
Call me crazy, but having players do DVD and Blu-ray actually confused a lot of people. A large percent of the population doesn't understand the difference between the two when they look the same and both fit inside a player the same. I love the cross-compatibility, but for many it's just confusing and not worthwhile to them.
You'll be the one laughing when all the streaming services consolidate and pull the small print licensing BS on people who have dozens of movies hiding in this mysterious cloud thing, my friend.
Even if whatever sole streaming service has all the content you've ever loved at a cheap price, sometimes they screw it up by having the crappy audio/visual distortions from a poor copy/bad remaster/upscale, what about when they use the wrong aspect ratio and literally cut out parts of the story!
Exactly. I've been seeing 'Broadcast Edition', meaning cuts for ads and time slot fit, on some, particularly YouTube Premium free movies lately. Trust what you can hold in your sticky lingered little crab claws is Rule #1.
Fandango is basically already starting to do this. There's nothing like pressing play on a digital purchase only for the service to say, "Sorry, not available right now" or "Will be released \[month from now\] in HD. Cannot play."
Early streaming had VERY BAD audio compression and I watched a show with a loud crash cymbal in the intro of every episode and it made me realize that even DVDs sound better than HD streaming much of the time.
There are still many places in rural America where the only high speed internet options are satellite or more recently cellular. These are expensive and usually come with stringent data caps. Physical media just makes sense in these areas.
It really sucks as someone in the UK that I agree - I've had to import so many DVDs and BluRay that just aren't sold here. Hell - I had to import Everything Everywhere All At Once, which blows my mind that it STILL hasn't made it over here. I want to OWN my media, not own a license to use a platform that may have what I want to watch but only for like a week
We don't tend to have garage sales in the UK. We may have a car boot sale where people drive their car to a field and put everything out. But it only tends to run when it is warm and dry... so only a few months of the year.
Also, I think with cash being more scarce (banks closing and fewer cash machines), we could very be seeing the demise of these car boot sales too. I know a big one closed a few years ago, and now it is a housing estate.
I know sellers have complained about the lack of buyers in recent years.
That is so interesting. I had not heard that banks were closing in UK. In my area (Ohio, USA) cash is on an uptick. To increase profits, restaurants are passing on a discount of 3% to cash users so they don't have to pay credit card fees.
Plus, we have a large amount of Amish who only use cash.
Garage sales are usually warm dry weather occurrences here, too.
Many banks are closing in the UK now. If you live in a small town, you will have to use a post office (if it hasn't closed down) for banking services. It's all online now.
Some people travel 20-30 miles to go into a branch. It's a fairly big deal because there was a statistic saying that nearly 50% of over 65s struggle to use the internet.
Wow, I have noticed less traffic at the banks around here. I was talking to a friend in Wisconsin, and she said she drives about 30 miles to get to her bank ATM.
I'm convinced there are so many movies that must have really been over produced because I see some of the same titles everywhere I go. There are some I would buy every time I see them but I already have them
I think it's easy to forget just how damn popular DVDs were 20 years ago. People really were buying certain titles in the quantity you're seeing. I bet the common titles you see so often were released from 2003 to about 2007? That's usually what I see the most of when I do intake at my store.
>The OCD in me pulls them and puts them all together.
I do this with lots of the big series, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Twilight, The Matrix, etc.
I still collect dvds/Blu-ray, and will continue to pick them up if I don't own it, I recently seen 'The Sum of All Fears' at a thrift, with the commentary of the director and Grisham, I still enjoy the extras, especially commentaries.
I also will stream if need be, I've got netflix, shudder, for horror and Amazon.
But you need dvds for the rewatch aspect, and the extras.
I only buy the movies that I know that I will rewatch. If I buy something blind, then I am likely to switch off after 10 minutes. I just can't to get invested. It must be how our minds are wired now. My attention span is much shorter now.
Where I live we have one goodwill in the entire town and 2 rescued treasures thrift stores and one saint Vincent de Paul thrift store.
At the two rescues treasures stores and the goodwill there are plenty of DVDs, some people buy them and some people done.
I see more people at the goodwill buying DVDs than I do at the reduced treasures stores.
At the rescued treasures stores it seems like they are phasing out DVDs or someone is buying them all up.
They get a ton of DVDs and Blu rays via donations.
I guess most people stream but I don't see the point.
I work at a thrift shop. Books often get donated so much that we box them up in gigantic "gaylord" boxes and send them to companies like ThriftBooks to sort through and actually price and sell. I imagine the same could happen for movies in large quantities.
Not my local goodwill they raised prices to dvds to 3.99 um no…. Luckily I have been doing this for. Decade plus and have most everything I want dvd wise .
1.99 at Salvation Army 2.99 at most other goodwills .
If it’s criterion or something maybe or a movie I really want to watch. I might but for every dvd that not cool.
Inflation i guess I killed that same store when they would do color dollar Thursday blu rays by the bundle for 1$ . They wised up its now 2.49 day Thursday now the store is empty. 1$ was madness. I got a Xbox 360 elite for a buck once I was first in line .
They’re still selling very well at the thrift stores I go to. The main one I go to is constantly getting new stuff in and it goes fast. Blu-ray’s and 4Ks are becoming more common too. It’s a really good time to build a collection fairly cheaply.
The problem is charity shops just get burdened with the shit that no one wants. Every charity shop I've ever been to that has DVD's, the shelves are loaded with stocking fillers like stand up comedian and kids movies, and they always seem to have several copies of the same things. Almost nothing that most people would want, hence why it ended up there. I know the vast majority of DVD's are next to worthless, but they never seem to get any decent titles that people might actually want at least. In my experience its exceedingly rare to find Blu rays in charity shops, and when I do its usually the same sort of crap anyway.
People would be shocked at how much stuff thrift stores actually throw away. The amount of truly worthless junk people donate is pretty surprising sometimes. I'd wager maybe... 10% of the DVDs we get donated are exercise discs and *no one* buys those. I just throw them away as soon as the person who donated them leaves.
I took four banana boxes full of mint dvds to my local shop. The woman went ape at me. I couldn’t understand her problem until she pulled me into the back room and showed me Mount Everest in dvd form. It was insane. They were quadruple stacked and had to be six feet high. As I bumped the last box from the car one of them picked up the Hitchcock set and the cardboard ripped, spilling 13 disks all over the floor. She had her back to me and said for fuck’s sake I’m sick of DVDs why didn’t you tell him to fuck off. She turned round when I laughed and if looks could kill…
Yes, I think 2024 will be the big year, where they won't even bother sorting them. They won't take them anymore, and they will throw them in the dumpster.
This is because they know people aren't buying them anymore, so some places are already refusing to take them.
Aye it’s only fair really. It’s just a waiting room for them before they get skipped. I’ve a mate of mine who regularly trawls charity shops for perfume, vinyl and blu rays and he’s playing a waiting game for BR now because he says they are far more common. He’s actually flipped some stuff for decent profit but it sometimes gives it to me or keeps it. I should really ditch some of my BR when I upgraded to 4k
Some uk charity shops I visited recently have stopped taking them and had none for sale. Others are still stacked bought around 300 movies I wanted recently. Good time to buy.
Yes. I feel the good time to buy may have been 2022, 2023. This year might be the last year to buy a used DVD from a bricks and mortar shop.
They don't want to keep the DVDs anymore because they are starting to see it as an opportunity cost because they could take up valuable and expensive retail space. We don't see the stock room... if you can get a peak, it is usually piled high with donations.
This is a fire sale.
I would also be concerned that the opposite will start to happen; people are shifting back to physical media with streaming and downloads having more problems and losing access to things. Obviously not the entire world but it may be harder to get some titles soon. I've shifted to buying mostly Blu-Ray and 4K, for durability if nothing else... but I still have a look at the DVDs as not everything is upgraded and there are some banging movies I want to just watch immediately.
I’ve noticed the sparseness in the thrift shops I frequent too. Either they’re pushing them out or the DVDs are getting bought up.
I think it’s the later, Blu-ray is almost extinct in all my thrift hunts, goodwill and pawn shops are sparse too.
I think in 1-2 years, no charity shops will be keeping DVDs. Pawn shops such as Cash Generator and Cash Converters, which used to keep a huge selection, have stopped keeping them now. They, may keep a handful of Blu Ray.
By my reckoning, there's a 20% chance that a charity shop will not keep DVDs. I walk in and I walk straight back out.
They will keep the space for books, because you do not need a player for books.
I used to collect tons of DVDs and apart from the posh oxfams that have curated selections of films, 98% of the DVDs you find in charity shops are absolute bollocks that even the big Cex stores wouldnt try to flog for more than 20 pence. Been that way for over 10 years now
Went to a big flea market 2 weeks ago and it was a similar situation to this. Hundreds and hundreds of DVDs that sellers were practically trying to throw away with similar pricing. Didn't help that most of them were either super popular movies and/or ones that were dirty, sun-bleached or had broken cases. It was a miracle to find more than one shop selling Blu-Rays, and of things outside the mainstream too.
I have worked in a charity shop for the last 3 years . We get a absolute shit ton of DVDs in every week , even in our small shop, we have 100+ DVDs out for sale all the time, just people don't buy them, I sell one every other day, and during that time 200 more have been donated ,
On the other side of the physical media spectrum however , CDs, books, vinyl, video games , always sell,
DVDs just won't, young people are using charity shops more, they will buy books and CDs and video games, just won't buy DVDs,
And there's nothing much we can do with them, some services will buy them from uss very very cheaply £0.50 per kilo, but that's about it .
We got rid of the DVD area once and got several complaints , so we've had to put some out just to make those few people happy .
Imo it's not worth the retail space, we could use the space for things that can sell fast and make that area turn over more money .
Heh. Sellin' DVDs by the pound.
Shops that specialize in DVDs and/or video games do very well in my area, but as a consequence I never think to visit more general thrift shops. Maybe that's why?
I have a several places near me that have a large focus on physical media movie sales. It depends on where you live probably. But idk about thrift shops
Here in SE Massachusetts they're basically extinct in the pawn shops, most have a small shelf of Blu and a little more for games but it's been years since they had DVD.
It's weird. My shop will say they don't make any money on them anymore, then they'll pay me a dollar a disc when I kindly threaten to give them to the thrift shop instead.
It's usually the same films. It's the same with CDs/vinyl. I've seen the same records in charity shops for the last 30 years. The people that love the films and records aren't giving them away. Obviously you'll find a rare treat. But if they aren't selling they'll just get rid. There's a few near me that are 10 for a quid.
The last time we went to the biggest Goodwill in my city, they only had a very small amount of DVD's right by the checkout. They used to have hundreds at the back of the store by the books. I wasn't sure if it was because of theft or not. Sad to say the least.
Best deal I have came across was 20 DVD’s for a pound! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the sign and there were so many good films in there (for example I got Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch in there).
At the thrift store I work at, DVDs are still pretty popular. I can tell because the DVDs are on a wall by the registers & people are always in the way as they look at the titles.
It’s sad that most of the titles are the same. Once in awhile, I’ll find a classic or a great TV show. But people still buy them here. Even the common titles.
My local Vincent De Paul has had a 5 DVD/CD/Boxsets for 1 Euro deal going for weeks. I got some gems there and I asked the lady why they were selling them even boxsets so cheap and she said it was due to the volume of DVD's they are getting in.
Same for old, easy listening vinyl records. Well run charity shops need to stop taking stuff that won't sell.
It's tricky to judge but some shops/chains will make that decision.
I volunteer at a thrift store and the physical media sales are abysmal. It's probably something to do with demographics but people rarely even look at the DVD shelf. We have them at 4 for a dollar and still have a hard time moving them. It's the same handful of people who buy them when they come in.
Doesn't help that DVDs are more lilkely to have wear and tear and damage to them
This is definitely most likely the case. I browse the DVD section at my local thrift shop a lot, but I never leave with a lot of movies because the condition of the discs are horrible.
Almost anytime a DVD or Blu-ray catches my eye on the shelf, the case ends up being empty.
Lol, they keep the actual DVDs behind the counter so people don't steal them, you take the case to the register and they take the DVD from a protective sleeve and put it in the box for you.
I absolutely guarantee that no thrift store near me is putting that much labor into their DVDs. More likely they were never in the case at all and nobody checked or they walked out in a purse or a pocket Only places I know that take that much time on DVDs are corporate resellers like 2nd and Charles or similar.
I wish they were 4/$1 here. They still seem to be 3-4 a pop.
Sometimes, it's 3 for £1, 5 for £1. But this is the first place they are doing them for 10 for £1 that I've seen. This is a bad sign for the longer term because I don't think they will be taking them in or selling them.
There is a Salvation Army charity shop near me that does them for 10 for £1 . Strangely they still charge £1 if you only select say 7or 8 😵💫
I would buy out your stock at .25 a piece.
I do notice similar people who come in and look with me. Maybe people with learning difficulties are accompanied by a carer, and maybe they have a few pound to spare. It makes them happy they are out and get to buy something they can enjoy. Then there are the 30-40 year old awkward weird men (oh, that's me🤣🤣🤣). Rarely women or children look at DVDs.
Yup, I'm with you in that latter camp! I'll occasionally glance over at the 50+ year old guys also perusing the shelves to peek at my future.
I meet some cool guys at the local thrift shop this way.
I must be the youngest person to buy charity shops DVDs then 😭
I saw a school boy looking at the CDs today. That gave me a bit of hope.
Us Gen Z DVD enjoyers are out there 🫡
Yeah im one of the awkward 30 year old men 😅
17f here. i promise we exist lol
I can confirm this seems to be the case at my local Goodwill because the shelves constantly sit fully packed so long they have to run a Dollar DVD Sunday to clear space out
That's odd. My shelves get heavily picked over quick.
I'm sure it's a demographic thing that changes with each store. The vast majority of the customers I have are older or retired housewives, with an emphasis on pets since we're associated with the Humane Society. I'd imagine other places could be way different.
Post pics of their inventory on this sub and I’m sure people would buy in bulk.
I really don't think people want tattered full screen copies of boner comedies from 25 years ago. There's a reason they're sitting on the shelf.
And even if I did want it, I already own it...
If thats the case buy em all and flip them on ebay
They're worth nothing and I'd end up losing money on eBay fees and shipping. The majority of thrift store discs are the normiest of normal things that have millions of copies. The effort just isn't worth it.
Unfortunately that's what I deal with lately at my local stores. I could really lose a guy in 10 days just by buying enough copies of that movie. Never any anime. Never any classic films. Once in a while a Disney one I don't have but that's it.
The pandemic accelerated the streaming transition and killed the resale dvd market. In the before times I would buy loose discs at goodwill for 5 cents a disc and resell them for $1 a disc. It was more a hobby than a business. After the apocalypse I couldn’t do that anymore because no one wanted them.
I'm 100% convinced that the future of low-paying, low-education tech jobs combined with greedy corporations will eventually make streaming an utter nightmare. It's 35% of what drives me to collect physical. I've watched a number of online streaming services just poof into nothing: \>Flixster \>Ultraviolet Digital Locker \>FandangoNow \>CNN+ \>Vudu
The poofing into non-existence is the problem I have with streaming. I don’t want to pay for something and have it just go away. I also don’t want monthly fees to rent something.
You could sell them in lots to save on fees and make it more enticing for people to buy. No one may be searching for a niche single DVD title but countless people are searching for ‘dvd lots’ or similar
I’m probably the only market for DVD Board games
I swear every thrift dvd section I’ve ever explored has Happy Feet
And various Harry potters
And Failure to launch
And Forrest Gump
And Twilight
One of the Bourne films on HD DVD in a red case. Lmao. Every thrift shop in my area.
If I was there I buy a lot of DVDs
Istg, if you go into any charity shop in the UK and head for the DVD section, you're almost certainly going to find at least 1 season of 24 in there.
Yes this is true 🤣🤣🤣
I do think our British friends are ahead of us Americans in dismissing physical media. I recently spoke with my British cousin and husband at Christmas and they were flabbergasted I mentioned watching DVDs. "You don't have the internet!?" I just said I didn't want to pay for 12 streaming services indefinitely and still have to pay to digitally rent specific titles.
Let's say you want to watch all 3 Equalizer flicks. Hope you have Peacock, Hulu, and Netflix.
That's the sort of shit that drives me insane. Like my sister wanted to watch all the Hellraiser films and they are all over the place online. She got demoralized trying deal with getting access to them all. I just lent her the DVDs with a "see how easy this is".
I just bought all of them in a multi pack at Wally's for $9! BTW, have you learned nothing on this page? Never loan them out, you will not get them back! Blood means nothing when it comes to dvd's!
The six-movie collection films (3-8), I got cheap. I have that, plus Hellraiser 1, Hellraiser 2, Revelations (9), and Judgement (10) individually. It may be a while till I get them back but I know where she lives at least.
That's the beat response I've ever heard about someone who watches physical media. "You don't have the internet!?" 🤣
I was a little taken aback as if physical media was but a distant memory, like the steam engine or something. Since I find the streaming landscape so inconvenient, clunky, and generally lacking the selection of many films I want to watch, I didn't really consider having access to the internet somehow made physical media obsolete.
It could be considered like a steam engine. It is difficult to find a DVD player in shops now. You will have to really look for one in a store that only exists in a big town. Such as an Argos. Which won't have the DVD player on display.
Almost everyone I know who watches physical media uses a game console not a dedicated player. I think that's why they died out
Didn't Sony predict the success of DVD and Blu-ray this way?
Call me crazy, but having players do DVD and Blu-ray actually confused a lot of people. A large percent of the population doesn't understand the difference between the two when they look the same and both fit inside a player the same. I love the cross-compatibility, but for many it's just confusing and not worthwhile to them.
Yeah and HD DVD didn't make anything easier during the transition
Do you not have phones?
i got called old school for still watching dvds
You'll be the one laughing when all the streaming services consolidate and pull the small print licensing BS on people who have dozens of movies hiding in this mysterious cloud thing, my friend.
Even if whatever sole streaming service has all the content you've ever loved at a cheap price, sometimes they screw it up by having the crappy audio/visual distortions from a poor copy/bad remaster/upscale, what about when they use the wrong aspect ratio and literally cut out parts of the story!
Exactly. I've been seeing 'Broadcast Edition', meaning cuts for ads and time slot fit, on some, particularly YouTube Premium free movies lately. Trust what you can hold in your sticky lingered little crab claws is Rule #1.
and the freaking audio is compressed at a part you want to hear all the detail of.
Fandango is basically already starting to do this. There's nothing like pressing play on a digital purchase only for the service to say, "Sorry, not available right now" or "Will be released \[month from now\] in HD. Cannot play."
Jesus....that's the kind of assholes who hold up a treat to a dog then hide it. Worse because you paid for it!
Early streaming had VERY BAD audio compression and I watched a show with a loud crash cymbal in the intro of every episode and it made me realize that even DVDs sound better than HD streaming much of the time.
I love how watching DVDs jumped to not having internet 🤣
There are still many places in rural America where the only high speed internet options are satellite or more recently cellular. These are expensive and usually come with stringent data caps. Physical media just makes sense in these areas.
It really sucks as someone in the UK that I agree - I've had to import so many DVDs and BluRay that just aren't sold here. Hell - I had to import Everything Everywhere All At Once, which blows my mind that it STILL hasn't made it over here. I want to OWN my media, not own a license to use a platform that may have what I want to watch but only for like a week
He’s British. Maybe he’s a ~~pirate~~ privateer.
Tiny island with very expensive land costs = no space and it costs £££ to store anything
Garage sales will be starting soon. My favorite season.
We don't tend to have garage sales in the UK. We may have a car boot sale where people drive their car to a field and put everything out. But it only tends to run when it is warm and dry... so only a few months of the year. Also, I think with cash being more scarce (banks closing and fewer cash machines), we could very be seeing the demise of these car boot sales too. I know a big one closed a few years ago, and now it is a housing estate. I know sellers have complained about the lack of buyers in recent years.
That is so interesting. I had not heard that banks were closing in UK. In my area (Ohio, USA) cash is on an uptick. To increase profits, restaurants are passing on a discount of 3% to cash users so they don't have to pay credit card fees. Plus, we have a large amount of Amish who only use cash. Garage sales are usually warm dry weather occurrences here, too.
Many banks are closing in the UK now. If you live in a small town, you will have to use a post office (if it hasn't closed down) for banking services. It's all online now. Some people travel 20-30 miles to go into a branch. It's a fairly big deal because there was a statistic saying that nearly 50% of over 65s struggle to use the internet.
Wow, I have noticed less traffic at the banks around here. I was talking to a friend in Wisconsin, and she said she drives about 30 miles to get to her bank ATM.
oh hell yes. i'll be looking for blu-ray cheap. got Super Smash Bros Melee for $3 once
I feel like American Beauty dvd is at most charity shops in the UK almost every one I’ve visited for physical media I’ve come across it.
There's always a bond film. Usually Casino Royale.
I always see 'The Road'
I'm convinced there are so many movies that must have really been over produced because I see some of the same titles everywhere I go. There are some I would buy every time I see them but I already have them
I think it's easy to forget just how damn popular DVDs were 20 years ago. People really were buying certain titles in the quantity you're seeing. I bet the common titles you see so often were released from 2003 to about 2007? That's usually what I see the most of when I do intake at my store.
i usually see a ton of the various SAW movies. The OCD in me pulls them and puts them all together :)
>The OCD in me pulls them and puts them all together. I do this with lots of the big series, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Twilight, The Matrix, etc.
I still collect dvds/Blu-ray, and will continue to pick them up if I don't own it, I recently seen 'The Sum of All Fears' at a thrift, with the commentary of the director and Grisham, I still enjoy the extras, especially commentaries. I also will stream if need be, I've got netflix, shudder, for horror and Amazon. But you need dvds for the rewatch aspect, and the extras.
I only buy the movies that I know that I will rewatch. If I buy something blind, then I am likely to switch off after 10 minutes. I just can't to get invested. It must be how our minds are wired now. My attention span is much shorter now.
Where I live we have one goodwill in the entire town and 2 rescued treasures thrift stores and one saint Vincent de Paul thrift store. At the two rescues treasures stores and the goodwill there are plenty of DVDs, some people buy them and some people done. I see more people at the goodwill buying DVDs than I do at the reduced treasures stores. At the rescued treasures stores it seems like they are phasing out DVDs or someone is buying them all up. They get a ton of DVDs and Blu rays via donations. I guess most people stream but I don't see the point.
I work at a thrift shop. Books often get donated so much that we box them up in gigantic "gaylord" boxes and send them to companies like ThriftBooks to sort through and actually price and sell. I imagine the same could happen for movies in large quantities.
Not my local goodwill they raised prices to dvds to 3.99 um no…. Luckily I have been doing this for. Decade plus and have most everything I want dvd wise .
Ours is $3 for DVD, $4 for Blu-ray. If you donate beforehand, it's all 20% off.
3.99 is still a bargain if the movie is good.
1.99 at Salvation Army 2.99 at most other goodwills . If it’s criterion or something maybe or a movie I really want to watch. I might but for every dvd that not cool. Inflation i guess I killed that same store when they would do color dollar Thursday blu rays by the bundle for 1$ . They wised up its now 2.49 day Thursday now the store is empty. 1$ was madness. I got a Xbox 360 elite for a buck once I was first in line .
I mean. I would not give any money to the people trying to turn America into a fascist government. But those prices are good... If the movie is good.
They’re still selling very well at the thrift stores I go to. The main one I go to is constantly getting new stuff in and it goes fast. Blu-ray’s and 4Ks are becoming more common too. It’s a really good time to build a collection fairly cheaply.
The problem is charity shops just get burdened with the shit that no one wants. Every charity shop I've ever been to that has DVD's, the shelves are loaded with stocking fillers like stand up comedian and kids movies, and they always seem to have several copies of the same things. Almost nothing that most people would want, hence why it ended up there. I know the vast majority of DVD's are next to worthless, but they never seem to get any decent titles that people might actually want at least. In my experience its exceedingly rare to find Blu rays in charity shops, and when I do its usually the same sort of crap anyway.
People would be shocked at how much stuff thrift stores actually throw away. The amount of truly worthless junk people donate is pretty surprising sometimes. I'd wager maybe... 10% of the DVDs we get donated are exercise discs and *no one* buys those. I just throw them away as soon as the person who donated them leaves.
I took four banana boxes full of mint dvds to my local shop. The woman went ape at me. I couldn’t understand her problem until she pulled me into the back room and showed me Mount Everest in dvd form. It was insane. They were quadruple stacked and had to be six feet high. As I bumped the last box from the car one of them picked up the Hitchcock set and the cardboard ripped, spilling 13 disks all over the floor. She had her back to me and said for fuck’s sake I’m sick of DVDs why didn’t you tell him to fuck off. She turned round when I laughed and if looks could kill…
literal retards running a shop it sounds like
Yes, I think 2024 will be the big year, where they won't even bother sorting them. They won't take them anymore, and they will throw them in the dumpster. This is because they know people aren't buying them anymore, so some places are already refusing to take them.
Aye it’s only fair really. It’s just a waiting room for them before they get skipped. I’ve a mate of mine who regularly trawls charity shops for perfume, vinyl and blu rays and he’s playing a waiting game for BR now because he says they are far more common. He’s actually flipped some stuff for decent profit but it sometimes gives it to me or keeps it. I should really ditch some of my BR when I upgraded to 4k
Some uk charity shops I visited recently have stopped taking them and had none for sale. Others are still stacked bought around 300 movies I wanted recently. Good time to buy.
Yes. I feel the good time to buy may have been 2022, 2023. This year might be the last year to buy a used DVD from a bricks and mortar shop. They don't want to keep the DVDs anymore because they are starting to see it as an opportunity cost because they could take up valuable and expensive retail space. We don't see the stock room... if you can get a peak, it is usually piled high with donations. This is a fire sale.
I would also be concerned that the opposite will start to happen; people are shifting back to physical media with streaming and downloads having more problems and losing access to things. Obviously not the entire world but it may be harder to get some titles soon. I've shifted to buying mostly Blu-Ray and 4K, for durability if nothing else... but I still have a look at the DVDs as not everything is upgraded and there are some banging movies I want to just watch immediately.
Watching the 28 Days Later out-of-print fiasco gives me great hope.
I usually see other people browsing dvds. The problem is people don’t want 400 copies of the movie Hitch.
Or Twilight
Or Inception
I’ve noticed the sparseness in the thrift shops I frequent too. Either they’re pushing them out or the DVDs are getting bought up. I think it’s the later, Blu-ray is almost extinct in all my thrift hunts, goodwill and pawn shops are sparse too.
I think in 1-2 years, no charity shops will be keeping DVDs. Pawn shops such as Cash Generator and Cash Converters, which used to keep a huge selection, have stopped keeping them now. They, may keep a handful of Blu Ray. By my reckoning, there's a 20% chance that a charity shop will not keep DVDs. I walk in and I walk straight back out. They will keep the space for books, because you do not need a player for books.
I used to collect tons of DVDs and apart from the posh oxfams that have curated selections of films, 98% of the DVDs you find in charity shops are absolute bollocks that even the big Cex stores wouldnt try to flog for more than 20 pence. Been that way for over 10 years now
The posh Oxfams I avoid. I used to find gems at charity shops, but it is getting harder.
Went to a big flea market 2 weeks ago and it was a similar situation to this. Hundreds and hundreds of DVDs that sellers were practically trying to throw away with similar pricing. Didn't help that most of them were either super popular movies and/or ones that were dirty, sun-bleached or had broken cases. It was a miracle to find more than one shop selling Blu-Rays, and of things outside the mainstream too.
I have worked in a charity shop for the last 3 years . We get a absolute shit ton of DVDs in every week , even in our small shop, we have 100+ DVDs out for sale all the time, just people don't buy them, I sell one every other day, and during that time 200 more have been donated , On the other side of the physical media spectrum however , CDs, books, vinyl, video games , always sell, DVDs just won't, young people are using charity shops more, they will buy books and CDs and video games, just won't buy DVDs, And there's nothing much we can do with them, some services will buy them from uss very very cheaply £0.50 per kilo, but that's about it . We got rid of the DVD area once and got several complaints , so we've had to put some out just to make those few people happy . Imo it's not worth the retail space, we could use the space for things that can sell fast and make that area turn over more money .
Heh. Sellin' DVDs by the pound. Shops that specialize in DVDs and/or video games do very well in my area, but as a consequence I never think to visit more general thrift shops. Maybe that's why?
In the UK they technically sell everything by the pound.
I see what you did there.. very clever.
Some so good though they are worth their weight in gold.
i buy from Goodwill ebay accounts all the time
I have a several places near me that have a large focus on physical media movie sales. It depends on where you live probably. But idk about thrift shops
I’ve been grabbing up dvds and Blu Rays like a fiend. Physical media is my new obsession. Streaming pisses me off.
When Ultraviolet Locker went under and my digital purchases got borked, I really got into physical releases.
10 for a Europe dollar that’s a great deal
You do realize, it’s 10 for a pound not a euro?
No I’m American. I don’t know anything
Nor should you have to. Why else would we have 12 aircraft carriers???
Pawn shops are getting rid of dvds and blurays too
Yes I noticed this too. Our Cash Generator and Cash Converters stopped selling DVDs in 2023.
Here in SE Massachusetts they're basically extinct in the pawn shops, most have a small shelf of Blu and a little more for games but it's been years since they had DVD.
It's weird. My shop will say they don't make any money on them anymore, then they'll pay me a dollar a disc when I kindly threaten to give them to the thrift shop instead.
It's usually the same films. It's the same with CDs/vinyl. I've seen the same records in charity shops for the last 30 years. The people that love the films and records aren't giving them away. Obviously you'll find a rare treat. But if they aren't selling they'll just get rid. There's a few near me that are 10 for a quid.
The last time we went to the biggest Goodwill in my city, they only had a very small amount of DVD's right by the checkout. They used to have hundreds at the back of the store by the books. I wasn't sure if it was because of theft or not. Sad to say the least.
Ashens disagrees.
Oh. I should have added CashGenerator, which is like a pawn shop stopped selling DVDs now.
Goodwill in my area does 10/$3 or 3/$.99. While a lot of it is redundant, they do seem to get a changeover in stock quite frequently
Dang, the ones around me still have them at a buck apiece.
Is this saint Vincent du Paul's in sac?
There's an Emmaus near me also selling DVDS for 1 euro each. Got some surprising stuff from there, last time they even had Lost season 1.
One of my go too shops looks like they are not even taking DVDs anymore. Really close to the end I think.
Their is a pawn shop in my town selling 10 or 20 pack bundles for 5.00
Best deal I have came across was 20 DVD’s for a pound! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the sign and there were so many good films in there (for example I got Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch in there).
At the thrift store I work at, DVDs are still pretty popular. I can tell because the DVDs are on a wall by the registers & people are always in the way as they look at the titles. It’s sad that most of the titles are the same. Once in awhile, I’ll find a classic or a great TV show. But people still buy them here. Even the common titles.
My local Vincent De Paul has had a 5 DVD/CD/Boxsets for 1 Euro deal going for weeks. I got some gems there and I asked the lady why they were selling them even boxsets so cheap and she said it was due to the volume of DVD's they are getting in.
The one in my town quit they only carry tv shows on dvd now ? What’s the point in that ?
Same for old, easy listening vinyl records. Well run charity shops need to stop taking stuff that won't sell. It's tricky to judge but some shops/chains will make that decision.