Where to sell these VHS titles
The last thing I want to do is leave you out of any ideas of where to sell the VHS titles you’ve accumulated over the years. Or maybe you’re an avid collector looking to free up space in what was once a 3-bedroom home and is now a 2-bedroom home with a large upstairs shed.
But seriously, there are plenty of places you can try selling your VHS tapes. There are many online outlets such as eBay, Craigslist.com, and Amazon, etc. You can sell nationally from garage sales, car boot sales and classified ads in your local newspaper.
The thing to remember is this; you want to get as targeted a buyer audience as possible, and if so, you also want that audience to be as large as possible.
Selling VHS titles is very much a niche business and that niche is divided into smaller niches. So it makes a lot of sense to try to get your VHS titles in front of everyone who might be interested.
Some buyers may only be interested in documentaries, others in trains or travel. Others may pick up comedy or live band performances, etc.
But if all those people are looking in the same place, chances are they’ll see some of your video titles, if they’re there to watch them.
The biggest marketplaces are of course eBay and Amazon.
I will only recommend Amazon – WHY?
For a very good reason. Amazon has a real advantage over eBay because it actually has a category called “VHS” and eBay doesn’t.
Instead, eBay has a category called “DVDs, Movies & TV”.
Yes, that’s right, if you type “VHS Tapes” into the eBay search bar, then look under the category heading, you’ll see “Videos: VHS” mentioned.
But here is the real difference…..
Last time I checked, eBay was showing 2,337 listings under this title, but at the same time, Amazon had over 83,000.
Amazon is by far the most popular place to sell and is the obvious marketplace for a niche selling company.
Whether you’re a collector or simply selling redundant VHS tapes lying around the house, one thing you should definitely consider getting is an up-to-date and proper list of VHS titles. A list showing you which tapes have a value. There are many, many VHS tapes being advertised on Amazon.co.uk for 1p. This is ridiculous and it will be a complete waste of your time to try and sell some of your VHS titles when there is clearly a saturated market for certain titles.
So either you need a researched list or you need to research each of your titles individually. This isn’t such a big deal if you only have a few, but if you have a large amount or are actually getting VHS titles as a means of providing a second income, then you have a list that tells you which VHS titles they have. value, is something that will save you an enormous amount of time and also prevent you from wasting money buying tapes that have little or no value.
Anyway, I hope I gave you some ideas. I can only wish you the best of luck in selling your tapes.
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