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I am a hoarder, plain & simple. The thing is I have a whole load of old (and new) VHS Cassettes which I've got no use for, not even having a VCR any more. So, rather than just chuck them out I've been offering them locally free to anyone who wants them, but nothing. So what I've now decided is to see if I can get rid of them in another way & have listed them on eBay as a Charity sale, nominating N.S.P.C.C. as the beneficiary.

I'm not really expecting to get much, if anything, but I've put a £25 Buy Now price, just in case anyone wants to buy them as a donation sort of thing.

I don't know yet if anything will come of it, but if it does, it might be a useful way of getting rid of all sorts of junk in the future.

20 VHS Video Tapes - Charity Sale | eBay

Can you donate them to a thrift/resale shop & receive a receipt for tax purpose.

Or donate them to a youth center & receive a receipt for tax purpose - or receipt at all & donate them to clean & unload old stuff your hoarding.

I donate - I also have yard sales to unload items I've demoted - since I'm always collecting something.:wah: I'm a hoarder..:wah:

Patsy

My garage is full of them. All collections of left in my care by my extended family.

How can I put this delicately ?

Throw them all away, nobody wants them. Everybody has a DVD and Blu ray players or are streaming or on demand TV services (Have you seen a Blockbuster video store recently?)

Or you could hang on to them until they come back into vogue, like vinyl , but I doubt they will.

Saying that......I hope you do get shot of them so you can let me know where.

Bruv;1482540 wrote: My garage is full of them. All collections of left in my care by my extended family.

How can I put this delicately ?

Throw them all away, nobody wants them. Everybody has a DVD and Blu ray players or are streaming or on demand TV services (Have you seen a Blockbuster video store recently?)

Or you could hang on to them until they come back into vogue, like vinyl , but I doubt they will.

Saying that......I hope you do get shot of them so you can let me know where.


I know that, and this is just a last shot before I do just that. I just thought I might as well give it a go first. If it works - Great!! If it doesn't - Nothing Lost. After all, it's amazing the sort of thing people want on eBay. For instance, only last week I sold a load of Audio Cassettes on there - at not too bad a price either. I was expecting to have to chuck them out as well.

Think we'd need an Oz road-train to move our stuff!

FourPart;1482536 wrote: I am a hoarder, plain & simple. The thing is I have a whole load of old (and new) VHS Cassettes which I've got no use for, not even having a VCR any more. So, rather than just chuck them out I've been offering them locally free to anyone who wants them, but nothing. So what I've now decided is to see if I can get rid of them in another way & have listed them on eBay as a Charity sale, nominating N.S.P.C.C. as the beneficiary.

I'm not really expecting to get much, if anything, but I've put a £25 Buy Now price, just in case anyone wants to buy them as a donation sort of thing.

I don't know yet if anything will come of it, but if it does, it might be a useful way of getting rid of all sorts of junk in the future.

20 VHS Video Tapes - Charity Sale | eBayI still use them often to tape TV shows while watching another channel, then play them back later, using the same tapes over and over but they DO wear out eventually.

The going price here in the USA, if you can find them at all, is around $2-3 for a pack of six or maybe even ten, that's for unused tapes.

On eBay you'll will have to pay commissions to both eBay and PayPal, and I don't think you'll have many buyers at the price you are asking.

Mark Aspam;1482557 wrote: On eBay you'll will have to pay commissions to both eBay and PayPal, and I don't think you'll have many buyers at the price you are asking.


In this case I don't because I've assigned everything to charity. However, I imagine I'll get paid the P&P, as I'll still need to arrange shipping.

FourPart;1482569 wrote: In this case I don't because I've assigned everything to charity. However, I imagine I'll get paid the P&P, as I'll still need to arrange shipping.Really! Never heard of that, if US eBay has it I'm not aware of it.

How exactly does that work? There must be more to it than just claiming that it's for charity.

Since my previous post on the subject I checked eBay and there are HUNDREDS of listings with a wide variety of prices, nearly all of them much too high compared to so-called "dollar stores" here in the US. One place that I visited last week had 10-hour tapes, brand new - or I guess I should say UNUSED rather than new/recent, for 50 cents each.

Yes. There is a facility on eBay to donate a proportion of up to 100

% of the selling price to a nominated charity. My nominated charity is the N.S.P.C.C. If you look on the link, first of all you will see the ribbon logo by the title. This denotes a charity has been nominted. Then at the bottom, under the Bid / Buy Now buttons you will see written in red, "All proceeds go to charity".

20 VHS Video Tapes - Charity Sale | eBay

As this is the case on eBay.co.uk I would imagine it were also so on all the other countries that eBay operates in.

See this eBay page for further clarification.

eBay for Charity - Selling to benefit a charity

I like the Freudian slip of the spelling of nominated........it tickled me, No Minted.....meaning short of money ?

Bruv;1482615 wrote: I like the Freudian slip of the spelling of nominated........it tickled me, No Minted.....meaning short of money ?
Typo more than Freudian, I think.