#GOODTIMES HOME VIDEO VHS EBAY SERIES#
While the Disney “black diamond” series has a legendary reputation among collectors, the studio’s “clamshell” tapes also regularly fetch good prices on eBay. The older the tapes, the better, with the copies that look like the ones below, complete with original poster box artwork and the “CBS FOX Video” logo fetch better prices than the 1997 re-release of the trilogy, which came in a single box with Darth Vader on it.Ī set of the original VHS trilogy sold for $100, according to a recent listing on eBay. Since these tapes were pretty popular when they came out, the haul won’t be enough to pay your bills off but individual used copies will regularly sell for $15-$30 each, which is likely far more than you’ll get by turning them in at Half Price Books. If you have any of the original movies in the “Star Wars” trilogy - made up of “Star Wars,” “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” - on VHS, you will almost surely be able to get a bit of cash for them on eBay. Here are some tapes that have recently been fetching good prices with regularity on the auction site. In some cases, it doesn’t even matter if they’re in rough shape. Of course, if you do have any of them lying around, you’ll be virtually guaranteed to make something on them at auction, as eBay reports its users have sold more than 1,800 of them in the past 90 days as of this writing! That shows both their popularity and how common they actually are.īut there are plenty of dusty old VHS tapes that can fetch you decent money on eBay. A quick search on eBay today will show countless listings for these supposedly rare tapes, many of which are listed for $10 or less. We’ve all heard the stories about Disney’s “black diamond” VHS tapes selling for thousands on eBay but, unfortunately, the value of those tapes has been mostly overstated. There’s an entire market online for old tech, including vintage video games and VHS copies of movies, thanks to people with spare money and a hunger for nostalgia. Many of the things you cherished in the 1980s and ’90s before tucking into a basement box and forgetting about have now become sought-after items by collectors.
While you probably gave up on watching your old collection of VHS tapes a long time ago, there are plenty of people out there who are still carrying a torch for tapes.
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