Top 20 Most Valuable Vintage Video Tapes

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[OffhandDelivery]

I wonder if cavemen collected things. Once they started creating tools, did they still keep old rocks around? Oh this rock vintage!, very good rock, absolutely a classic, and still in mint condition, hardly used! I will trade you 3 advanced rock tools for 1 classic vintage rock. This rock piece of history, belong in museum.

[charlesforeman]

That 3rd Star Wars you showed Return Of The Jedi, I remember that exact same video. I had a cousin living in the US in Albany, they got this for us when were kids. I remember my mother opening it up out of the wrapping, Oh my god if ever I wish I could have looked into the future as it would never have come out of the wrapping at all. What a great video again Don, you never fail to amaze me in the cost of items from the past. Thanks, Don. Charles in the UK

[Glokas]

Great List!

I’m so glad I kept all my VHS for the most part. Some tapes I couldn’t let go of just due to sentimental value. Those Tapes kept me sane during Winter Storms and boring Summers. They brought my family together. There was nothing quite like my brother and I laying down close to the TV, my mom watching from the couch. The glow and hum of the CRT washing over everything. Great times!

Check the original release of Killer Klowns. It looks like it’s picked up a lot of steam lately. Even just a regular opened copy.

[outstandingoddities]

I paid my rent through college back in the late 90s/early 00s finding and selling VHS on Ebay as many titles were OOP due to the licensing / consolidation of catalogs as the migration to DVD began. Those were the goldmine days...

[juliekmunden]

I love VHS! So many stores throw them out and don't even add them to their thrift shelves. We had the huge Panosonic VHS in the 80's and I recorded Dallas and Days of Our Lives! Thanks for the video.

[ml]

LOL Don. Went through a small town and stopped at a used store. Amongst all my wife and i bought, there where 195 good condition vhs. Asked lady, if i take them all could you make me a good price? She did. She then kept saying please come back sir. Put a smile on my face, people are so nice in our field of work :) Then i get this video from you Don, what a coincidence lol. Cheers and thanks Don, Maurice

[jakethesnake]

I've built up a Disney vhs collection. Just because that's what I experienced growing up. I thought people didn't really care about vhs anymore since I find them so cheap. Nice to know there a community that also loves them

[BMarie]

I know someone who’s grandpa owned a video and audio store, and they found an entire box of unopened vhs tapes in his storage, all straight from the manufacturer, entirely sealed. There was like 50 of them, all assorted. They literally were able to pay for their wedding by just selling a handful of them. I can only hope I’d get that lucky one day lol.

[missionpassed]

When I was a kid in the 80s my dad had quite a few original big box movies mostly ex-rentals and for the uk market usually un-cut, they were pretty expensive even as ex-rentals, mostly war or horror movies, he rented regularly from our local Video store just down the road from us including Death Wish, The Exorcist etc, then suddenly they banned many films he used to rent, what's annoying is the store offered the rental copy of The Exorcist to him no idea how much but he declined as it was a pretty worn copy (doh!), in the mean time I had started my own collection and ended up with over 250 vhs tapes, sadly over time I realised they were all cut to pieces and censored and I always wanted a copy of Death Wish and The Exorcist and A Clockwork Orange, but found it pretty much impossible to get on vhs, the real kick in the teeth was he lost his job and sold his collection off to a mate at a real loss, once he got another job and knowing how rare his collection was I got him to contact his mate to get them back but sadly he sold them all. I of course eventually sold all mine off and now can buy the Blu Rays of all my favourite movies sadly my father passed away back in 2004 and cant see how all his favourite movies have become so available and soo clear with uhd etc

[peterbuchwald]

I wonder how many of these I've missed out on, walked right past in the Goodwill over the years. Thx for the video!

[boomschofield]

I'm glad to hear that someone is getting good prices for their VHS tapes! But here in Southern/Central Arizona ALL of these would fetch maybe 10 Cents! Or more often NOTHING!

[paulleach]

As always thanks Don, Love the Maxell Commercial! That was one of my favorite commercials.

[ChosenGoodsReseller]

Oh. Goodness that is so true, I remember us going through the aisles having extreme differences in price of the "New Technology"DVDs

[ramonelizondo]

I love how you add the vintage commercials 😍👌

[metalevilution]

I'll never understand the appeal of grading a vhs tape. To me they should be watched, held, sniffed and appreciated in all their oldschool glory. \m/ 😀

[allanbuttery]

Working in a Charity Shop who later refused to accept VHS cassettes the trick to work them into the shop was stack them in a cardboard box with books piled on top.

[yaywhewclips]

My local video store sold a lot of VHS tapes when it was being phased out for DVDs. I bought The Thorn w/ Bette Midler from 1970 and Lady Bear (1980s??, ) sold both on amazon/ebay. Both tapes were with the GIANT boxes.

[raylehtinen]

The first tv episodes of Star Trek to be released on home video (VHS and Beta) were in 1980 as part of a 5 volume set containing 2 episodes each. These were used mostly for video rental stores. The first single episode "Space Seed" was released in 1982 as part of a special promotion for ST II: The Wrath of Khan. It was also used as a "market tester". These tapes are very valuable and are highly sought after by both Star Trek fans and Videotape collectors.

[cobra]

Great info, I travel across america all the time. Whenever I have time I stop at antique and thrift stores. Never know what youll find.