I've actually accidentally stolen from people who lent me there's. Like just a friend I saw once in a blue moon. He gave me his Donnie Darko DVD and then we didn't see each other again and I ended up having to move 4 states away. It happens a lot. Be careful not to lend to people you don't see often, That's all I can say.

So why don't you mail it back to him.

Does he set the record for the quickest bannination ever? This was his first post and his last one was less than 10 minutes later.

I lend my DVDs out to my friends and family. I have a list on one of my shelves and if my family is coming into town, I ask them to bring back the DVDs that they have watched and can get more.

The only person I've had trouble with is my roommate. He lent my prequel Star Wars DVDs to his mom without asking me. It was about a year until I got them back.

WOW! :jawdrop: :banned:

I don't lend to anyone except for my brother who lives about a hundred feet from me

No way! Same NO LOANS goes for books, CD's & Money! Best way to lose a friend - loan them something which you want back in pristine condition.

I just thought of a link which was posted in a similar thread a year or 2 ago. Check out this link - it's great!!

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

The article at that link was pretty funny, but true. Iused to lend out my movies until someone walked off with a few of them.

Now they never leave my house.

Gee, what a bitch. If I were you, I'm going to make sure that I'm not talking to her anymore.

But anyway. Glad to hear your DVDs back.

I really only ever have loaned out my DVD's to those friends that I feel have a similar interest in movies as me. The kind where there'll ask you about such and such, and "did you see that?", or "hear this?" Then I know that they're serious about movies and are trustworthy. I'll give them a list of what I have to see if there's nything they might like and then I let them borrow then with the stipulation that

a) if I lend them out at the beginning of the week, I'd like to have them back by the weekend

or

b) if I lend them out later in the week that I get them back the beginning of the following week

I've only ever been burned once when I lent a "friend" who I had never had any problems with before borrow my X Files S1 set, only to see him get fired (we worked at the same place) and then never see him again. Boy was I glad when Costco cut the prices on the "old" sets.

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When I first got a DVD player I made it a point not to ever let people borrow my DVDs. Letting friends borrow my music cds in highschool, they always came back scratched up.

Anyways, just recently I've been feeling guilty having this 50+ DVD collection and never letting anyone borrow these great films I've enjoyed. So recently I decided that I would let a close friend borrow some DVDs she was interested in. The rare and OOP titles out of the question though.

So I let her borrow some DVDs she was really interested in, and in return she starts bringing me her DVDs for me to watch that she thinks I'll be interested, which are all crappy.

Now I see the movies I let her borrow are out of print and I want to watch them again. "Hey, can you bring me back A Better Tomorrow next time?"

"Hmmmm, I don't think I borrowed that one," she says.

"Yeah, I let you borrow it. The Hong Kong film starring Chow Yun Fat, in the story about triads and how one of the brothers is a cop."

"No, I would remember that. Plus I don't have it in my house."

I like buying movies for people that they'll enjoy but I always regret letting people borrow things. Plus the two films she returned back to me are all scratched up.

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I've generally had good luck with casually lending out my DVD's to friends. I can't be bothered to worry about the specifics, so I'm ok with letting somebody borrow a DVD for a couple months. They usually return it and I'd forgotten they'd even borrowed it. While I'd like the movies back quickly, the way I see it is that with a collection my size (1000+) plus Netflix, most movies won't get a rewatch for at least a year for the best ones. So no biggie if somebody wants to borrow it for a while until they have the time to watch it. I have a couple of freinds who use the "Mattflix" service and always have a couple of movies borrowed. They return them and pick up some more to watch. It doesn't bother me because we can bond over said movies.

What can you do though if somebody wants to borrow something? I give them a chance. Otherwise it's pretty awkward if you refuse a freind something they'd perceive as being casual. If it's a particularly valued disc, explain it to them and they should have the courtesy and respect to give it back to you.

I've only had a couple of problems. I have one good friend who borrowed Hard to Kill and Evolution about 7 years ago. He still has them. He's played the "I forgot them again" game the whole time. Oh well, I'm out maybe $10 for those two. I've joked about charging him late fees.

I also had somebody borrow a couple DVD's, and while she had them we had a fight and stopped being freinds. Since I'm so casual with them, it took me a couple of months to figure out which movies she actually had. But again they were quickly and cheaply replaced, and if I couldn't remember which movies were gone, they weren't truly that valuable were they?

I've noticed Blu-Rays are hard to lend out. Casual viewers still generally don't have a Blu-Ray player and can't use the discs. So that's a safeguard.

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Well, that's your first mistake; I'm liberal in almost everything, but when it comes to my DVD collection I'm more tightfisted than Ayn Rand. You have zero obligation to lend movies to anyone, and anyone who tries to guilt you into lending them your property is not your friend.

I have around 2,000 DVDs in my collection, many rare and long OOP, and I would never lend them to anyone under any circumstances (except to my father-in-law because we have a mutual lending arrangement, and he is easier to track down than a casual friend.)

I learned my lesson after allowing roommates access to my collection years ago, and finding that several discs had magically disappeared after the roommates moved out.

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I don't loan out anything anymore cause something bad happens every time.

I loaned a guy at work Club Dread and when he brought it back the case had a huge gough in it, so I bought the Extended Edition and then just loaned out the damaged one until it got kept by someone.

I loaned another guy at work a couple of movies that he wanted to copy and he brought them back when he was done. Then I loaned him 3 more Bedazzled remake, Scanners & an X-rated one about groupies. He got fired before bringing them back and I never head from him again.

I loaned a cousin Where The Boys Aren't 10 and he loaded it into his DVD player on top of another Disc and ruined it.


I bought my Mom Scream 1, 2 & 3 Special Editions Brand New. She loaned them to my nieces (her grandkids). They "lost" Scream 3 (Mom's favorite) & Scream 2's case looked like it had been through a Woodchipper. I took 3 CD jewel cases & made inserts with each of their names and now they are only aloud to borrow one movie at a time. On the insert under the CD tray I put "Do NOT leave in the car!, Do NOT leave in the sun!, Do NOT loan to your friends!".

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I think I've only loaned 2 DVDs out .. both to my sister around 12 years ago.

She still has one and the other one she gave me as a Christmas present about 10 years ago.

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no way no way no way! I never borrow my DVDs. My brother borrow my The Wedding Singer (first release, snapcase one but before Totally Awesome Edition coming out) DVD and then he return my TWS DVD... what happens.... he fingerprint all over my TWS disc and I got pissed and I decide to rid it and sold it. And then I finally brought Totally Awesome Edition DVD coming out.

So I wont never borrow someone my DVDs no more!

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I would love it if the young knuckleheads at my job would borrow my DVDs--so they can see something good instead of the current pop culture crap they do watch day in and day out. I work at a TV station and the crew consists of film/TV/media grads and very few of them have any curiosity or interest in past classics. Or anything with subtitles. I have tons of anime and Japanese and Hong Kong films they would like. But there's no interest. It's very distressing.

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I'm very hesitant to lend out anything because of all the reasons stated here. (not being returned, being returned damaged, etc...). There are only a couple people I even consider lending out to and they all know how to treat my DVDs! They also know that if they damage it-they replace it. I've had my sister not borrow something after I told her replacement cost was in the $50 range. I am totally willing to have movie nights here at home though-if you want to watch something, let's watch it! :)

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When I was in high school, which was before dvds existed, I loaned a friend a cd. Long time before I heard anything about it. Turns out, someone had snapped it in half for some reason. Don't remember why. But it was just Fresh Prince Code Red, so not that big of a deal. I'd loan things out if it was someone that I really trusted with dvds/blu-rays. Like Zaranyzerak from youtube. I've bought a lot of things from him when he was selling things off. Some were about 10 years old but looked in perfect condition. But in order for me to loan something to someone, I have to see them handle a lot of dvds beforehand. If they pop the discs out and then grab the disc on the edge with their fingers instead of putting a finger through the hole and their thumb against the side so that they don't get fingerprints on it....sorry. But unless you can handle a disc properly, you don't get to watch any of mine.

And I won't loan anything to my brother, though he is in the same house. I can't STAND how he treats his movies. He'll just leave the cases laying all around. Which isn't so bad, but when a lot of them have cardboard cases, like Fresh Prince, Full House, etc, the cases can get pretty banged up. Not to mention that he doesn't keep track of them. Some volumes from a series will be on a shelf. Other volumes from the same series will be at the bottom of a stack of other movies. Just annoys me to no end.

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I don't lend DVDs because not only do I not have anyone who might want to borrow any (besides my one brother), but in general people don't know how to handle them. To think of the people I've seen who'll get their big greasy thumbprint on the business side of the disc because they just don't even think that it might be wrong, or people who just set it aside to put away later, to collect dust and whatever else happens by until they put it away, I see DVDs that are in such sad shape (scratches, scuffs, fingerprints) it makes me wonder what moron was stupid enough to do something like that, and then try to sell it to some unsuspecting soul! I think if I lent a DVD and it came back scratched, scuffed, or fingerprinted up I'd probably lose my mind, so I avoid that possibility altogether by not lending out my DVDs. By the same token I'll walk away from DVDs that have been mistreated and abused, I don't even want them in my collection. -kd5-

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One of the worst conditions of a DVD I have found is one from my aunt. It was a kid's movie (Kung Fu Panda, I think). She offered to lend it to me since she loved it, her kids loved it and she thought I would too. It was at a family gathering and she told me to look in her car as the kids were watching it on the way down. I went to the car and searched the backseat. I eventually found it, out of the case, laying on the floor on top of sand, tiny rocks and other garbage scratched beyond almost anything I've ever seen before. To my surprise, it actually worked without skipping or affecting the picture in anyway.

However, this is the best example of why very few people get to handle my DVDs.

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This is my biggest problem of loaning out movies (other than getting them back scratched up). I used to have a 1000+ DVD collection and people used to treat me like blockbuster. No one was ever really reliable when it came to returning them without me having to nag them to. However, I had one friend that would borrow stacks of them and keep them for months and the only way I'd get them back is if I went to his house and took them back. If I lend something out, I should not have to go TO that person to get my shit back. That person should come TO me to return it. Fortunately I am no longer friends with this person and no longer own any physical media ;)

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I remember my friend kept asking me if I would let him borrow The Godfather. This was when the DVD set was pretty expensive. I told him he had to promise me he would be very, very careful with it. Next time I went to his house the cd was on his coffee table without a case. I said "what the hell!?" He smiled at me and said, "you weren't supposed to see that." Fucking asshole.

I let him borrow one more DVD after that, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, but only because I got it for cheap and figured I could always buy it again. We're both big horror fans so I wanted to let him see a really good Carpenter film. I got it back a few months later scratched up, with chococate or peanut butter to match the scratches.

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after reading through all these posts it reminds me why I HATE people so much

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You know what? Back 5-10 years ago, or so, people would ask to borrow DVDs all the time. But these last few years, nothing. I'm pretty sure it's because everyone now is behind on their own netflix que, backlogged on hulu or still haven't gotten to their redbox rentals, or whatever.

Point being, everyone has so many entertainment options at the tip of their fingers these days, asking to borrow a dvd is the last thing on their mind.

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Because of course Netflix and Hulu are SOOO much better! (OK, I'll admit Netflix's quality is at least improving. Was surprised when I watched something from them with 5.1 sound with a picture that didn't completely suck.)