pseudo

I don't let people borrow movies anymore because they don't take care of them. The last straw was when I loaned a couple OOP movies to a friend and they came back scratched, almost unplayable. I ended up having one resurfaced and I had to throw out the other disc. That hurt because it was one of the more expensive ones (Fright Night 2).

Now I tell them that they are more than welcome to watch them here... they just don't leave my place.

Kent2000

It would certainly keep the house quiet for a couple of hours so I could actually watch one of my DVDs free of interruptions for a change!

Cubicle Morlock

Likely those DVD collectors like other people more than their DVDs enough to not risk the inevitable friction caused by their careless damage by friends and family they know are too irresponsible to respect other's property.

Lend DVDs out, get them back ruined, repeat process until finally it becomes one of those pent up frustrations that triggers ruining a relationship. Or just prevent the whole problem from ever happening in the first place by not lending, and thus preserve the relationships. Seems a simple choice to me.

Odds are someone as fixated with their collection over people as you imply wouldn't have friends to lend to. You stated this yourself, yet it made your point moot because most people *complaining* about the consequences of lending DVDs clearly have had plenty of friends to provide those bad borrowing experiences. Those with the mindset you assert wouldn't be the ones tossing out all those bad experience horror stories.

Wish that worked. One friend of mine was pretty much guaranteed to return DVDs in degraded condition. Scratches on the DVD surface, and something I never could figure out - every cardboard case box set he ever borrowed came back looking like a dog eared paperback novel. Didn't matter if he had it a week or several months, they looked like they'd spent a semester bouncing around in a student’s back pack.

I often asked him to pet sit for a couple days, and could usually tell with uncanny accuracy what movies he watched during his stay by finding the mis-shelved titles and/or (when opened) the worn disks. Assuming the titles weren't totally obvious by still being in the player, or lying loose wherever he placed them and forgot *anywhere* in the apartment (and I do mean anywhere - including kitchen or bathroom). Disks often left media side down.

So keeping the disks at home doesn't always guarantee their safety.

asianxcore

Mudo

I have to admit I've had many arguments with friends and family, and possibly a few too many doors slamming in an attempt to protect my cherished collection.

It's worth it though. x]

Spottedfeather

That's not the point. People don't mind sharing most of the time. I would let people borrow stuff....just not the valuable stuff. The Beastmaster complete set, for example. The company that released it lost the right, so they recalled the sets. Luckily, some got in the a few Best Buys. I will NEVER loan that to anyone. 1, they don't make it anymore and 2, the sets go for over 100 dollars on ebay so there's no way I'd be able to replace it.

SethDLH

That and it seems that most of us get burned when we lend out stuff by having it come back trashed because people don't respect others' stuff.