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Where to sell those VHS titles

The last thing I want to do is discourage you with your own ideas of where to sell those VHS titles you’ve accumulated over the years. Or maybe you’re a keen collector who wants to free up some space in what was once a 3-bedroom home and is now a 2-bedroom home with a large shed upstairs.

But seriously, there are plenty of places you could try selling your VHS tapes. There are many outlets online including eBay, Craigslist.com and Amazon etc. You can sell nationally at garage sales, car trunk sales, and classified ads in your local newspaper.

The thing to remember is this; you want to get as targeted a buying audience as possible, and with that being the case, you also want that audience to be as large as possible.

Selling VHS titles is very much a niche business and that niche breaks down into smaller niches. So it makes a lot of sense to try to show off your VHS titles to everyone who might be interested.

Some buyers may only be interested in documentaries, others in trains or travel. Still others may collect comedy or live band performances etc.

But if all of these people are looking in the same place, chances are they’ll see some of your video titles, if they’re there to be seen.

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 they actually have a category called “VHS” and eBay doesn’t.

Instead, eBay has a category called “DVDs, Movies, and TV.”

Yes, it’s true that 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 looked, eBay was showing 2,337 listings under that heading, but at the same time, Amazon had more than 83,000.

Amazon is by far the most popular place to sell and is the obvious market for a niche selling company.

If you’re a collector or just selling redundant VHS tapes lying around the house, something you should definitely consider getting is an up-to-date and properly researched list of VHS titles. A list that shows you which tapes have a value. There are many, many VHS tapes advertised on Amazon.co.uk for 1 cent. This is ridiculous and it will be a total waste of time trying to sell some of your VHS titles when there clearly may be a saturated market for certain titles.

So either you need a researched list or you will have to research each of your titles individually. This isn’t a big deal if you only have a few, but if you have a loose load or if you’re really getting VHS titles as a means of providing a second income, then have a list that tells you which VHS titles have value, it’s 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 have given you some ideas. I can only wish you good luck in the sale of your tapes.