Re: [MOPO] Grading VHS Tapes

[Alan Adler]

You have to play them in a sealed VHS player. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2024, at 3:49 PM, Alan Heimann <alanheim...@gmail.com> wrote:  Aren’t VHS tapes magnetic ? Won’t they degrade over time ? Or is it that these sealed copies have value no matter? On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM Michael Greenwood <newswan...@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi Folks I don't think this is a strictly new trend either as I met a guy from Rochester while attending a Toronto concert around 2016 and he and his companion were avid collectors of VHS tapes back then and I was surprised at some prices he quoted at that time. That was the first time I had heard of it. He was also pretty crazy for movie posters but there was a growing cult of collectors for this stuff even ten years ago. M From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> on behalf of peter contarino <mpexchangeu...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 5:20 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Grading VHS Tapes   Scott the reason some people are buying these is because heritage is “creating” a market for them.  And people are stupid.  On Wednesday, January 3, 2024, Scott Burns <sbu...@columbus.rr.com> wrote: Surely not *all* VHS tapes are gaining in value.   If that’s really true perhaps it’s time for me to rethink my plan to give them away to some youngster in a VHS Facebook group rather than sitting them out with the trash. I have boxes of the blasted things, including those that belonged to my parents. Plus boxes of home-recorded VHS tapes dating back to the very early 1980’s. And let’s not even mention the boxes of Laserdiscs and LP’s…with a few cassettes and 45’s, too. (Sorry no 8-tracks! 😊)   I can’t imagine why anyone would want old lousy picture quality VHS tapes. Even harder to imagine is someone shelling out much cash for them. There really is a sucker born….well you know the rest.   Scott   From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> On Behalf Of Rich Halegua MPB.auction Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 3:49 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Grading VHS Tapes   Kirby posters are static in value, or worse, declining. it's a small hobby, younger people don't really care, and much of what more modern audiences want in posters are too cheap to bother with. on the other hand, vhs & video games are ascendant & the auctions beat poster auction totals hands-down. it's purely a money equation, that posters are dying, and vhs are gaining Rich On 1/3/2024 8:36 AM, Kirby McDaniel wrote: Why?   Kirby McDaniel On Jan 2, 2024, at 11:39 PM, Sean Linkenback <s...@llpslaw.com> wrote:   I've seen Buck Jones posters and owned Gloria Swanson posters - I think I'd rather have the gaming cartridges if we are looking at them as collectibles.     On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 10:29 PM Freeman Fisher <00000016869468b6-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu> wrote: Glenn, CGC is grading video cassettes. Here is a link:   https://www.cgchomevideo.com/   I am still suspect of them as a collectible, but there are people out there with stupid money, proven by some of the prices for Gaming cartridges. A new generation…………who have never had the joy of seeing a quality stone litho of a Columbia Buck Jones poster or a  Gloria Swanson from Paramount   Who am i kidding,  they’ve never heard of Gloria Swanson or Buck Jones.     Freeman Fisher         On Jan 2, 2024, at 6:49 PM, Glenn Taranto <exit82afi...@gmail.com> wrote:   Hello All -   I have a, still mostly sealed, VHS tape from the original video release of BATMAN (1989). It was the first tape released in LA at the Sunset Blvd Tower Records location. There's way more to this story but the point is...    Where is the best place to get a VHS tape graded and how much does it cost?   Thanks in advance for your help.   Happy, Healthy and Successful New Year to all -   Glenn   To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1     To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 --     G. Sean Linkenback - Attorney 3217 S Cherokee Ln. 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