I love loaning my dvd's out--it makes me feel like they were worth buying because they're getting viewed. My Farscape collection has made the rounds, and it's a good thing since they were expensive.

However, I quit loaning dvd's to my little sister because I found one of my dvds left in no case, shiny side up on top of her tv. I'm a slob--I don't do the dishes every night, I have several empty cans of soda by my computer, and my laundry pile is a nightmare, but god dammit, I do put my dvd's carefully back in their cases when I'm through!

Anyone else though, yeah, I share, gladly.

tasha

Sure as hell. BMW 5 series is very easy to replace. Boy, it is just a vehicle!!!
It is not a case of valuing things differently. It is a life-style. You loan out everything, and end up looking as a second-hand shop.
As I've said I do loan out but I do have my criteria. And of course, I will NEVER loan out my car to anybody except my brother, because it is not replaceable. It is much easier to shoot the bastard down than to replace the car.

For insurance purposes alone, I wouldn't lend out my car.

I only loan out my DVD's to my sister but I have learn from experience that the disc will alwasy come back okay, but the cover may suffer damage so I also give it to her in a blank CD case....

The other person I loan DVD's to are my friend Heather, and she is very protective about them, my only complant is that it takes her like a month to watch them.

I loan out but only 1 at a time and its with a select few like my parents,girlfreind,brother and 1 of my freinds the rest get the X.

I loan out my DVD's and don't worry about it. If a friend ruins a $20 dollar DVD, it can be replaced. Friends are worth more than DVD's. Plus, my friends are the type that would insist on paying for anything they damage. They are a good group of people.

No and never will.

Like a friend told my dad when he wanted to borrow a tool. "Do you have a job? My dad said "Yes!" The friend said, "Well then go and buy it like I did."

That's my motto also.

If I can buy it, then so can my friends. After all I am not the local Blockbuster.

I bought it with my hard earned money and I feel that friends, relatives, whoever can go and buy/ rent their own DVD's, just as I did.

I am amazed so many people would value a $20 dollar DVD more than a friend.

WOW. This thread is an eye opener.

Friends are there to help one another out. Say for example, Guy A has a large Hong Kong Kung Fu collection, Guy B has all the mainstream movies, and Guy C has a good art house and international collection. Why should each one have to duplicate a library unless it is something they really enjoy and want to watch over and over. What is wrong with loaning out a movie? Everyone benifits.

I think lending things to friends is a common courtesy. I do not think I would want to live next door to someone who is anal retentive. When I was a kid, I used to play catch with a friend in his back yard. I remember asking for water, and his dad said to use the garden hose. I guess there are all kinds in this world.

Yes, and I'm already starting to regret it. A co-worker seems to have forgotten that I loaned her The Count of Monte Cristo. Guess I'll have to "borrow" it back.

never

to certain people i don't mind. One friend had my lock stock n two smokin barrels & pulp fiction for over a year!!! and another friend would come over every 2-3 nights and browse like i was the local blockbuster!

i put an end to those two right away

I'm in a situation where i have my dvd's in a college/dorm apartment thing. I share with three other guys. Unfortunatly, can't put them in my room because there's just no space. So i put them in the common area. Now 90% of the time there's no problem. The problems arise when two of my roommates(the third is a friend of ten years and has more DVD's than me) are making friends. They're younger and have never been on their own. So they're always kissing butt. So when they bring people in the apt thats when i hear lots of "Wow that's a lot of DVD's" then "wow i've always wanted to see that" then "Oh i'll ask Joey(me) if you can borrow it" then (after a minute of knocking on my door) "oh he must be in class"

But to answer the question, i do let friends borrow movies. I also let the occasional friend borrow a tv show. But i have to say that the cardinal rule of borrowing things is to never lend out something your borrowing. That's never happened to me, but if it did i would have to regulate.

Don't loan anything, don't borrow anything.

If a grown man or woman wants to watch a movie, he can pay the $6 rental or buy the disc for $15-$20.

Hey that's exactly what I do with my sister and my friend who's name is Anna.

People are funny. There is so much wrong with the above. You have the words correct, but with role reversal in your interpretation. What about the jerk friend who smashes the disc when you loan it to him? Have you gone and said this to him? Because he obviously doesn't value either stuff or friends. And that is why people don't loan stuff to others. And shouldn't ever be asked. It's the borrower that the above should be applied to.

That said, I do loan DVDs occasionally. Although when I think about it, it's only been to 2 family members and zero friends. Both people are also meticulous and are collectors who would feel it appropriate to re-purchase anything of mine they busted. Last loan I did was a couple weeks ago, the disc was back in my possession in 1.5 days without so much as a fingerprint. That's why he gets to borrow it.

I do have one disc that is more or less on permanent loan to my fellow collector bro-in-law. But it's a test disc that I will probably never use again since I have others that do more. So I guess it was a gift.

I did loan out my brand new digital camera last weekend. Scared me half to death to let $1000+ walk out the door, but my dad was taking my kids out for the day so I could do something else and he forgot his camera. Up until I got this one, he had better stuff than me and takes excellent care of his stuff, so that limited my worry a bit. Anybody else....the loan would never have happened.

I would suggest just loaning out in-print DVDs (readily replaceable), and put the DVD in a blank case, or a jewel case because cases lent out to people never come back in the same condition.

Since you felt the need to reply to me allow me to reply back.

It is clearly an issue of valuation, and one's life-style is merely an extension of the valuation an individual places on material objects, other individuals, and etc.

If you notice in my post I clearly wrote certain individuals, yet you extrapolated this to include all individuals. You also have a certain individual {my brother} that you would loan your vehicle.

The point I was trying to make is simply this:

There are certain individuals in my life that I value over any material object, and I would thus lend them any material object. It is true as the value of an item increase there becomes less individuals that I would trust with the item. In order words, there are more people that I would loan a DVD than I would loan my car; however, all of the individuals that I would loan my car I would also loan a DVD.

I hope I cleared that up.

I guess I must be lucky, because nothing of mine has been broken by a friend. And even if it was, I would not take it too seriously. Chances are that a $20 dollar DVD will tell me more about the person. If they destroy the DVD and take no responsibility, then I will adjust how much I trust them.

BTW, I like the idea from the person who said to use a CD case when loaning out DVD's.

This thread brings home memory of this link someone posted half a year ago:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vze26q...ckbustered.htm

...I remember that! thanks for the re-visit.



make up yer freakin' mind.

You are lucky. My friend borrowed my Jewel CD once and she kept it for over 18 months. It was the special edition with a limited edition bonus CD. It started out with 4 things: 2 CD's, a case and the cover. I got back the CD case and the disc which was so badly scratched my CD player won't play it. So now I'm out one limited edition CD that I can't find anywhere. In fact she treats her own stuff like crap. All her CD's are stuffed under her bed and not in their cases.

That said I did lend her a DVD. Only after she swore she would take care of it properly, and I said I'd kill her if she broke it. She did keep it for two months without watching it, but it was still in good condition thank god.

I loaned my cousin my Lion King and MIB VHS's like 5 years ago, and I only got it back last year. So definately no loaning to him again.

I just let my Aunty borrow Alias season 2, and while she returned it in good condition, she took a month to do so, and she only gave it back once she tried it in her DVD player, which isn't multi regional. So who knows how long she would have had it if she had been able to play it.

I do have another friend who collects DVD's and I lend her things, but only because she knows how to treat them, and she's just down the road so I can get them off her if I need them.

The thing with me is, I'm only 19. I don't have that many DVD's (about 100), and I spend most of my money on them. I don't see why I should have to lend them to people who aren't going to treat them with care, considering how much I spend on them. I will let people borrow them but only if they treat them properly. I like to keep my DVD's in pristine condition, so I always handle them with care, and never touch them on the playing side. If I ever had anyone break them I would get them to buy a new one, and they wouldn't borrow from me again.

Luckily I don't have many people wanting to borrow things since most of my family and friends don't own DVD players