Surplus UFO series videos

I am in northern England. In the course of de-cluttering my room I
find that I have these surplus UFO series videos:
The series with the mostly bluish bindings: all 11.
The series with the red bindings with the big grey numbers: 0 6 10.
Please email me with any enquiries.

--- In [hidden email], "Anthony Appleyard" <a.appleyard@...>
wrote:
>
> I am in northern England. In the course of de-cluttering my room I
> find that I have these surplus UFO series videos:
> The series with the mostly bluish bindings: all 11.
> The series with the red bindings with the big grey numbers: 0 6 10.
> Please email me with any enquiries.

I have sometimes thougt about that myself. In 2000 I finally
completed my collection of the red-sleeved VHSs from Digital
Entertainment and felt pleaseed that I had the complete series, only
for it to turn up on DVD a year or so later! I finally got the DVDs
in 2004, but this left me with a surplus set of the VHSs. Same
problem with BBC Video's Blake's 7, which I bought on DVD and now have
a spare copy of, so to speak. With the Blake's 7 VHSs, I completed my
collection in 1993, but with UFO, it's still fairly recently that I
shelled out a lot of dosh to complete the series and if I thought
about trying to sell them I'd like to try and get a decent price.  
With videos becoming obsolete that might not be practical, though.  
It's a problem, wouldn't you say?

By the way, this is just an observation, not a sales pitch.

The VHS tapes of UFO range from 49p up to £24.99. Realistically, you areonly going to get a pound or two per cassette. I have recently put up forsale (on Amazon UK) the first 17 volumes of ICT's Space: 1999 VHSs' and have sold about four of them. I have made about £8 so far. I would get sgot of them ASAP, before Video disappears from the likes of Amazon.
   
Rick

docmed03 <[hidden email]> wrote:
--- In [hidden email], "Anthony Appleyard" <a.appleyard@...>
wrote:
>
> I am in northern England. In the course of de-cluttering my room I
> find that I have these surplus UFO series videos:
> The series with the mostly bluish bindings: all 11.
> The series with the red bindings with the big grey numbers: 0 6 10.
> Please email me with any enquiries.

I have sometimes thougt about that myself. In 2000 I finally
completed my collection of the red-sleeved VHSs from Digital
Entertainment and felt pleaseed that I had the complete series, only
for it to turn up on DVD a year or so later! I finally got the DVDs
in 2004, but this left me with a surplus set of the VHSs. Same
problem with BBC Video's Blake's 7, which I bought on DVD and now have
a spare copy of, so to speak. With the Blake's 7 VHSs, I completed my
collection in 1993, but with UFO, it's still fairly recently that I
shelled out a lot of dosh to complete the series and if I thought
about trying to sell them I'd like to try and get a decent price.
With videos becoming obsolete that might not be practical, though.
It's a problem, wouldn't you say?

By the way, this is just an observation, not a sales pitch.



                         

       
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:34:39 -0000
"docmed03" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> With the Blake's 7 VHSs, I completed my collection in 1993, but with
> UFO, it's still fairly recently that I shelled out a lot of dosh to
> complete the series and if I thought about trying to sell them I'd
> like to try and get a decent price. With videos becoming obsolete that
> might not be practical, though. It's a problem, wouldn't you say?
>

It is indeed. I'm afraid the simple fact is that the UFO VHS editions
aren't really worth very much, given the availability of the DVDs, and
repeats on ITV4, except perhaps to an obsessive. I think I have one
left myself.

Shortly before the DVDs were released, but after they were announced, I
managed somehow to sell one of my UFO VHS tapes to someone in Australia
for about £20. I sold most of them on ebay for a lot less than that, and
gave one or two away to people on this list. I'll probably take my
remaining UFO tape to a charity shop.

The only really interesting thing about the UFO tapes for me was the
synopsis on the back of the 'Dalotek Affair' tape. Here's an email I
sent to the list nearly ten years ago (yikes)

From: James Gibbon <[hidden email]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[hidden email]>
Subject: Subsmash

Hi folks,

To my surprise, I managed to find the "Subsmash" video in Oxford Street
yesterday.. hadn't seen it since the early seventies, but what a great
episode. Definitely my favourite so far (there are still a few I
haven't managed to track down / record from TV broadcasts, and don't
remember very well, or at all).

What surprised me most though was the synopsis of "The Dalotek Affair"
on the back cover, reproduced here in part, but absolutely verbatim:

".. When communications between Dalotek and the earth mysteriously
break doun, commander straner insists a immediate investigation into
Dalatek's affars"

James

--- "Anthony Appleyard" <a.appleyard@...> wrote:
> I am in northern England. In the course of de-cluttering my room I
> find that I have these surplus UFO series videos:
> The series with the mostly bluish bindings: all 11.
> The series with the red bindings with the big grey numbers: 0 6 10.
> Please email me with any enquiries.

I am not after money: I am merely trying to find them a good home.

Unfortunately, the best thing you can do with them may be to donate
them to a local thrift store and get a reciept for a tax write-off. We
bought a dvd recorder last year and put our vhs coll. on dvd, then
took them with other items to a flea market to sell; we couldn't GIVE
the vhs tapes away. Unfortunate, but vhs has gone the way of the 8-
track. Good luck tho, perhaps you may still find a collector.

Peace, Mark T.