Lost causes

Posted in by Ashley : July 8, 2009

Unfortunately, in the frenzy of getting ready to move to Vermont I was planning on selling off a gang of dvd’s, as I had more than my dvd’s shelves could carry… And lots that I had no plans on seeing. I was just going to sell them to Everyday Music, where I didn’t think I’d get much for them. After all, most were either foreign region or just plain old boring dvd’s… (Though some few were worth farming out to a better seller, but I just didn’t feel like I wanted to spend the time). Then, I heard from Lloyd. He is an acquaintance of mine, via the faltering DVD rentals/sales business that he owns where I had been a regular for 3 years. He no longer has a street level storefront, now he is working out of a little office upstairs where he is in the process of liquidating his stock. Anyway, he offered to take them off my hands by proposing a consignment of sorts where he would sell them on Amazon and eBay and he would get me more money than anyone else would. I’ve always liked the guy, so I dropped them off and left town.

As the weeks went on, I was a bit apprehensive about leaving those behind, so I watched his online stores and my little DVD’s. Some sold okay and I heard from him occasionally. Then I stopped hearing. To make a long story not as long as it could be, I ended up with fewer DVD’s to move across the country and this fellow back in Portland ended up with a mess of my DVD’s for free (and, in fact, at least a few hundred dollars in sales)… Attempts to contact him have failed for months now, and last I heard he told me some story about a potential buyer who had scammed him out of most of his stock with a fake cashier’s check and so now he has lost most of his DVD’s and got no money for them… Of course, he said that he would still make good on what he owed me… But that was months ago and he again is not responding. Obviously, this is kind of embarrassing. And even though I decided to get rid of them, now that they are just gone I especially wish that I wouldn’t have parted with the Something Weird’s and the Criterion’s… I should have just given them all away to friends.

Regardless, for old times sake, here are the movies that I know I lost to him. It is a pretty accurate list. There may be a handful that didn’t go to him, as there may have been some others that did.

I am also including the Sale amount for the ones that he sold that I am aware of:

A Chinese Ghost Story
A Smell of Honey, A Swallow of Brine / A Sweet Sickness / Brick Dollhouse
The Abominable Dr Phibes
American Soldier, the
Amityville Horror, the
An Evening of Edgar Allen Poe / The Tomb of Ligeia ($12.99)
Azumi (R2 PAL)
Battles Without Honour & Humanity (R2)
Below the Belt
Bird People in China
Black Sabbath ($4.99)
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre ($7.99)
Boiling Point
Boxing Helena ($7.98)
Bulletproof Monk
Carnival of Souls
Cheech N Chongs Up in Smoke
Christmas Evil ($14.95)
Circus of Fear
Comedy of Terrors, The / The Raven ($14.98)
Comment j’ai tue Mon Pere
Count Dracula & his Vampire Brides
Countess Dracula (R2 PAL)
Crazies, The ($9.49)
The Complete Daimajin: Daimajin / Return of Daimajin / Wrath of Daimajin ($34.99)
Damnation / Werckmeister Harmonies (R2 PAL) ($14.95)
Dark Water (R3)
Delerium :Photos of Gioia
Delicatessen (R2 PAL) ($3.25)
Delirium ($.99)
Dellamorte Dellamore (R2 PAL)
Demons of the Mind
Dernier Combat, Le ($3.99)
Desecration
Dirty Dozen, the
Django ($5.99)
Django Kill
Dr. Tarrs Torture Dungeon
Dreams in the Witch-House
Edward Scissorhands
El Topo (PAL) ($6.70)
Emperor’s Shadow, The (R3)
Equilibrium ($3.99)
Evil Dead Trap
Fall of the House of Usher, The
Faust : Love of the Damned
Fever Pitch
Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within
Fog, The
Fortune Cookie, The
Frank Sinatra: His Life and Times
Fudoh: the New Generation
Gemini
Giants & Toys
Godson, The
Goodbye, Columbus
Guys & Dolls
Haunted Palace, The
Haunted Strangler, The
Haunting, The
Haxan : Witchcraft Through the Ages ($24.95)
Head Trauma
Hiroku the Goblin
Horror Hotel
Horrors of the Black Museum
Hustler, the ($5.98)
IZO
Jigoku
Juliet of the Spirits
Junk
Ju-On: The Grudge (R3)
Kairo (R3)
Kibakichi
Kichiku dai enkai
Kill, Baby, Kill
Killing Zoe
Kiss the Girls
Kourei
Kwaidan
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Corbeau
Lord of the Rings, the (Bakshi)
Love is Colder Than Death
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, the
Mannaja ($9.99)
Michael Collins ($4.24)
Minority Report
Mosquito der Shander (PAL) ($10.00)
Nikos the Impaler
Our Man Flint ($4.25)
Pimp’s Up, Ho’s Down
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Point Blank ($11.98)
Pumpkinhead ($5.00)
Psych-Out / The Trip
Quiet Earth, The (PAL)
Rainy Dog
Rashomon
Raven, The
Red Spectacles
Replacement Killers, The
Rome City Librta
Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare’s
Run Man Run
Safe Conduct
Samourai, Le (PAL)
Saragossa Manuscript, The ($24.00)
Sassy Sue / Pigkeeper’s Daughter, The
Shining, The
Shock Corridor
Sinatra: A Man & His Music Pt. 2
Stroszek
To Catch a Thief
To Die For ($5.94)
Vampire Circus (R2 PAL) ($2.99)
Viva la Muerte
Viy or Spirit of Evil
War of the Worlds ($2.99)
Web of the Spider
Whity
Witchfinder General (PAL) ($2.99)
Wizards
Yakuza Graveyard (R2)
Street Mobster (R2)

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