One of my best friends got into my house while I was away from home or on vaction and borrowed some DVDs from me.

He is like a part of my family and I would trust him with anything, so he just told me he had them and everything was cool.

I also borrow DVDs from him, when he has something I do not have - which is not often.

That's wrong on so many levels. :lol:

I've got a very select group that I don't mind lending to. I learned my lesson in college with albums and Video tapes. The people I will lend to now are those that I would gladly give the disc to if they wanted them.

Okay, this isn't about DVDs but about an lawnmower. My friend borrowed it and has kept it for years; I really had no use for it anymore since I landscaped my house with rocks. I really didn't mind but one day he brings it back and says it broke down. He had the nerve to ask me to get it fixed since it was mine.

Not friends, but an ex-girlfriend refused to return 6 or 7 DVDs after the break up.

Never caught a friend stealing them. Luckily, these days I don't have many friends locally. I travel so much that most of my friends are people I was friends with in other cities or friends from online.

I did loan my ex-wife about 6 DVDs back in July when I dropped my daughter off after she visited me. Two months later, I asked if she'd finished the DVDs and she said she'd only had time to watch a couple of them. By October and another visit by my daughter I asked her to just send them back with my daughter. Shockingly (NOT!), the DVDs were not packed in my daughter's bag like I asked. I asked her to just mail them back now, but we're coming up on 4 months now! The ex and I get along great and are very friendly, so it's not some sort of contentious thing. I just think anybody borrowing DVDs should return them in a time frame of less than 3-4 months!!

one of my wifes friends stole return to oz from me...i noticed it the next day, and narrowed it down to him....i went over there and put a foot up his ass and told him never to come into my home again...i wont tolerate it.

The reason why i asked him is because he keeps receipts for EVERYTHING that he buys. He has a file cabinet that he keeps receipts for CD's, clothes, furniture, etc. So I knew he would have the receipt if he actually did buy them.

Haha, some nerve he has.. that's messed up.

Friends?!?! = Stealing?!?! -screwy-


My advice....Meet New People!


Bruce

Nice to see I'm not the only one!

Does anyone have closed circuit video monitoring on their DVD collection? You never wonder what happened to a DVD this way. :D

I only have about 250 DVDs and they are all in a changer. If someone comes in and tries to borrow and DVDs I just tell them it is a pain to figure out what slot it is in, find the case, etc.

Trying to steal dvd's off my shelves wouldn't be the wisest idea. Because my watchdog would have disemboweled the culprit before ever getting near them. :D:D:D

But to tell you the truth, I don't borrow dvd's to my friends and i don't even have a darn dog. ;) The only one I trust is my dear brother. He knows how to handle my babies. He also knows, that maltreating them would result in fatal injuries. :D

My dvds are in my room & I simply have a lock on my door which opens with a key only. Dont keep them on display in your living room...it only attracts more attention of people asking to borrow & the word spreading that you have dvds so one day they, god forbid, get stolen since dvds are such a hot item for thieves nowadays.

on my last birthday,I had a dvd and splinter cell stolen off me,the dvd was only about 9.99,it was the splinter cell that hurt,my grandmother paid 49.99 for it for my birthday present,what stinks is she is on a fixed income and 49.99 is a lot for her.I knew it was my friend mike,the game was thier at 9.30 pm,he asked if he could borrow it,I said he could as soon as I beat it,what happen next was I had too much to drink and fell asleep,when I awoke the next day it was gone.it was him,he was the only 1 there after 9.30 pm.I knew him for 10 years,can`t believe he do such a thing.

If you know it was him, why not whoop his ass and take it back?

Me either! It would be funny if his friend had really bought them and is now sitting around fuming about how his lousy friend stole his DVD's! I believe the original poster though.

I have friends that I lend to and borrow from, and friends that I don't. I have items that are lendable and others that are not. Unfortunately many people cannot be trusted with a lot of things, and it's even sadder when someone cant be trusted with a round piece of plastic that's available almost anywhere.

I'll lend most of my coworkers anything they want. The nature of my job makes it so these are people that I rely on everyday to back me up, watch out for me, and at the very least cover my ass (and vice versa.) I have to rely on them for so much that a DVD is almost meaningless. I also play 'You Gotta See This...' with a c ouple of people at work, so lending is inevitable. Basically we make eachother watch the most crazy, surreal, ridiculous type things we can find.

You don't have a mother in law do you. These are the types of things that will get you moved to the couch on a semi permenent basis. Probably will end up where you would have to appologize for accusing her of stealing.

LOL

I don't have a problem with people stealing DVDs, but I do have a problem with the following:

1. People asking to borrow DVDs and then taking 6 to 12 months to give them back to me (hey, if you don't want to watch it, why do you want to borrow it?!).

2. People borrowing DVDs and then lending them out to a THIRD PARTY for viewing. (Hey, I'm lending it to YOU, not your extended family & friends).

I've also learned, never EVER let another person borrow the box as well (put the DVD in a CD case or something)...the box will almost always come back with the slick ripped, the plastic cracked or worse. (This is the one reason I no longer lend books out to ANYONE!)

Thanks for the plug Yakuza! We'll have to make sure you get a discount on your next order :D

John

I don't give a flying fish who you are, my stuff is off limits since a few episodes in my life. I let my friend borrow a PS1 and he broke it. I let my brother borrow my PS2, he kept it.

They will have to pry the PS3 (when it comes out) or anything else from now on, out of my cold dead hands !

I had a similar situation (someone asking to borrow my PS2). I told him that BBV will gladly rent him one. He brought up some favors he did for me, so I gladly opened up my wallet and gave him a $10 and said "the rental's on me then". He took the $10 but never rented the system! Better to be out $10 than my PS2.

My wife and i recently had a kid so we no longer have any friends.
I borrowed the Man who Wasnt There from a friend after he bought it right after it came out. i still have it and havent watched it, its been over a year.
This thread just reminded me i have to see if my friend still has my GG Allin (Hated) dvd.

Wow, Andy Capp is a friend of yours?