Interested in thinning out your movie collection? Here’s where to sell those used movies for maximum profit.
Used Movie Selling Tips
- Don’t pay to ship your items. Reputable movie resellers will pick up the shipping costs.
- Offers vary from reseller to reseller, so check with a few before you decide whom to sell to.
- Be upfront about the condition of your movies. If the disk is all scratched up, don’t bother trying to sell it. It’ll just get rejected by the seller when they receive it. Universal Studios and some other studios offer a low-cost replacement for disks that have been scratched or broken. It may be something to look into.
- You must have the original case and artwork to sell used moves to resellers. They’ll reject any movies that arrive without these things.
A Warning About Selling Movies You’ve Converted to Digital Copies
If you used a service like Vudu to do a disc to digital conversion, or you have a movie that came with an UltraViolet copy, know that selling your original copy of the movie after you’ve converted it may not be such a hot idea.
While it’s still very much a grey area, selling the actual physical copy of a movie could be interpreted as breaking the licensing agreement or copyright law because you still retain a digital copy of the movie. This means two separate households have access to the movie—one through the disc and one through the digital file—and that’s not what the studios intended. The law has some catching up to do on this issue, but it’s probably best to stay clear of this problem.
If you don’t want a bunch of movies taking up space in your home, switch to buying digital files. They don’t require shelf space or dusting or leave you treading in murky resale waters.
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