sort of OT: wrestling videos

[chadtower]

I'm just getting back into collecting but don't have tons of stuff for trade right now. I know, though, that there is substantial overlap in game collecting and wrestling video collecting. I have a very large collection of wrestling videos.

If anyone is interested in trading vids for vidgames, let me know...

[Syclone]

It would help to know what games for what systems you are looking for, and what wrestling movies they are.
-Chris

[Queen Of The Felines]

Do you happen to have an original copy of the WWF Wrestling Elimination Classic tourney from 1985 at the Rosemont Horizon?

Kristine

[chadtower]

No, sorry, not familiar with that one... unless you could possibly mean Survivor Series, but I don't think Survivor Series goes back that far.

[Sega Hitman]

From experience, when people offer to trade wrestling tapes, they're talking about copies. I tracked down every wrestling tape message board I could when I tried to sell my collection a while back, and I was pretty much disgusted with the majority of these collectors. For every one person that actually collects legitimate Coliseum Video originals, there are like 100 people that will only trade copies. It's gross.

I never did sell that collection the way I wanted. I found a video store with 60+ original tapes w/boxes for a whopping $2.50 a piece, so I bought everything they had. I slowly sold off the majority of what I had on eBay and made an easy few grand. I've made it a point now to hit as many video rental stores as possible, they're great for finding old wrestling stuff, as well as Genesis/SNES games that these stores take forever to get rid of.

Anyway, I have a point to my rambling. I still have around 70 original wrestling tapes w/ boxes. If anyone needs a list, give me an idea of what you'd be interested in (for example, late 80's WWF or something). Don't just say everything, because I know for a fact that nobody wants the ton of WCW late 90's crap that I have LOL . Also, I've found myself collecting the older hasbro WWF figures again, if anybody has a little collection laying around, PM me. That also goes for the big LJN figures as well

-Hitman-

[Sega Hitman]

BTW QOF, that tape is extremely hard to find. Good luck tracking one down. Most of the older tapes in the clamshells like that are beginning to become scarce. What in particular were you looking to see on that tape though? I remember it being quite bad.

-Hitman-

[ClubNinja]

Not to continue the derailing of this train, but man, do I agree about that tape copying stuff. I've got a (now) thin collection of clamshell originals (the major PPVs, basically,) and I just don't understand what the draw to lame copies is. The two copies I do have are Wrestlemanias 9 and 12, but they're both on the original tapes I used to record the events live when they were happening ; ) I figured these suckers were going to get a little valuable, but I was thinking a few grand's worth. Are you sure that's not a slight exaggeration? If not, I'd be interested in which tapes netted the most cash. I might be convinced to sell a few myself!

[Sega Hitman]

In the past year I probably have made right around $1500 off of wrestling tapes. Here's a brief idea of what to look out for:

-"Collector's Edition" Coliseum Videos. I found an Ultimate Warrior one. It was only 45 min. long, but it had a Warrior-Andre the Giant match which no other tape had. Warrior actually bodyslams him. I set the BIN at $75, it sold within a day
-WCW PPV's you couldn't buy in stores. Anything pre-93 is probably worth $20 a tape at least. I sold a Fall Brawl '96 on eBay for $76. Some stuff from '97-'98 may be pretty rare, they didn't even release some ppv's from those years.
-WWF PPV's besides Wrestlemania, pre 1998. They're pretty much all worth around $20+. I've sold a Survivor Series '87 for $70 before, one sold on eBay for like $100 recently. It's not that hard to find even. Keep an eye out for the earlier Royal Rumble's and Survivor Series in particular.
-In Your Houses pre '98. IYH DX has sold for hundreds. IYH Mind games is worth a bunch. IYH Good Friends Better Enemies is worth a bunch.

PM me if you have a question about something. I have my own little price guide memorized in the back of my head. Honestly though, it's not hard at all to sell these for $15-20 a tape, and when you find them at video stores for $2.50-$5, it's really easy to make money.

-Hitman-

[Queen Of The Felines]

BTW QOF, that tape is extremely hard to find. Good luck tracking one down. Most of the older tapes in the clamshells like that are beginning to become scarce. What in particular were you looking to see on that tape though? I remember it being quite bad.

-Hitman-

I was actually at that show, and you can see the signs my friends and I brought. The one friend bought the tape at Toys R Us approximately a year after the show and I haven't seen an original copy since. (We've long since lost touch, so I probably never WILL see it again. :) )

Kristine

[chadtower]

I agree. I never deal in copies of anything that's commercially available. I will, however, trade copies on occasion of things that are not available for purchase. If you look at my site it is by far heaviest in TV shows like Raw and Nitro. If they'd just make these things available on DVD or VHS I'd own every one of them... but alas, they are not and never will be. That's what I have done nearly all of my trading in and nearly every one out of the hundreds I have are the master straight off of the tv.

Sega Master, I may actually be interested in your tapes. Let me know what you have...