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Slightly different to a thread i was reading yesterday, but do you know people who just borrow off you than buy/rent for themselves?
Do you know guys who point blank refuses to rent from Blockbuster when they say, they can take it off me for free.
I don't like paying for other peoples DVD habit, but what about you lot?
One guy i know has no DVDs at all, but is regularly asking to borrow, i lent him some vcds, got them back 3 months later, he didn't even have the courtesy to come back and give them, he said i should come and pick them. Not even a thank you.
I know they don't get damaged, but i hate feeling like a rental agency, paying my good money for them to just take.
don't get me wrong, i have friends who have DVD collections who i have no real problem lending to, it's just the leeches i am on about.
any thoughts?
Same situation. I have one friend who’s had over ten of my discs for two years. I see him fairly regularly and he never offers them back. I had to give him a list last month of stuff I wanted back and I still haven’t seen them. For my trouble I got a really ****** look when I asked for them back too.
:rolleyes:
Originally posted by jonathan.e
Same situation. I have one friend who’s had over ten of my discs for two years. I see him fairly regularly and he never offers them back. I had to give him a list last month of stuff I wanted back and I still haven’t seen them. For my trouble I got a really ****** look when I asked for them back too.
:rolleyes:
If that was me I'd just take them back, if he still has them!
Maybe the ****** look was him thinking "Damn I was hoping he had forgot about them, I lent those out ages ago and will never get them back"
Happend to me before with a VHS film (before DVD) never did get a replacement :mad:
yeah I get "leeched" a fair bit I have some friends who buy stuff as much as me but there are some that just lend and lend. At the moment I have 2 series of friends and the sopranos lent to one person and another guy I know I lent about 10 things to including the Godfather boxset for some project he was doing. That was finished a bit ago and now he's trying to watch some of the films but when I went round to collect some he'd left them at a friends house! I know the guy quite well but he isn't someone I even see on a weekly basis. getting a bit cheesed but if you get angry at these "mates" then you're the one that looks like your in the wrong :oh-hum:
No. Because none of my friends have a DVD player. Most of them dont even have a VCR!
I lend mine to quite a few people but I usually get something in return in some from from all of them.
It does annoy me when I lend stuff to people and they lend it to someone else, it's only happened once or twice but I would never lend out anything someone had lent to me and I think other people should be the same.
We buyers of DVDs can't win ... we simply can not. Those friends who buy DVDs anyway don't borrow off you, its only those who say "Why should I buy DVDs when I can lend them of you!" after me telling them DVDs are quite good value for money really and their always on sale.
When you ask for them back they always make you feel guilty as well - ********! :mad:
However I count my blessings as there was this one guy at work who had just bought a DVD player and for some reason I ended up talking talking DVDs with him.
It wasn't long before he wrote down a list of stuff he wanted to borrow! ... Now I only see this guy at work I don't know him from tom dick or harry just some guy you always see (he was a long term contractor) ... well I didn't say no he can't lend my DVDs but he kept on pestering me for 2 weeks and I always said I forgot to bring them in (arse couldn't take a hint!) ... well 3 weeks later he just disappeared and it turned out that he got transferred to another site and it was a scheduled transfer... the git had no intention of returning the DVDs back to me! :mad:
On a slightly more favourable angle to this, my mate knew this guy who only had one DVD, bought it when DVDs had more or less begun.
This guys one and only DVD was The Killer: Criterion Collection
anyway he lent it to my mate and that was 3 years ago, the guy has disappeared, no contact, probably doesn't even have my mate's details.
And more importantly, doesn't care, because the guy doesn't know what the DVD really is.:norty: :nuts:
I lend out a few to firends & family. I actually say to them - why rent/buy when you can borrow off me...
I don't really mind lending them out - but will agree that people always take they're sweet time in getting them back to me. I think I'm going to impose a limit on the amount people borrow from me in future.
I'd never lend anything to anyone at work anymore (unless I saw them on an off work basis as well), as I've had problems getting games/DVDs back in the past - and they're never in that good condition.
One thing I do say is that under no circumstances can my DVDs be lent to anyone else - if that ever happened, they'd be cut off...
i hate lending them out. As i work in a game/dvd shop i see the state that the majority of people (us enthusiasts aside ;) ) keep their discs in. What really winds me up is when you open your doors to a group of your friends for a socialable evening round your gaff, then at the end of the night the ******** start sniffing round your dvd collection. Trouble is i'm too polite to say no. Whenever it happens it is always me - after two or three weeks - that ends up having to knock on peoples doors trying to retrieve my films. :mad:
i lend mine to anyone, don't mind at all. yeah people keep them for months occasionally but i've got hundreds! i'll always have something to watch so it doesn't bother me.
right then, well i'll email you and you can send me some.:)
Green trader, trustworthy and all that.:);)
i get all the time from a m8
i dont really see him that often,and when a new film comes out that he want to watch ,comes knocking on my door ,
i just i dont have it,then he goes , does not say how you are doing or nothing ,just leaves
i used to lend him the stuff before , but the guy never lends any off his stuff , so now i dont lend him anything
Tafsir
The odd few times that people from work borrow DVD's, I get them to chip into our tea & coffee money. I'm now almost fully paid up for the year!!:smokin:
I work at Blockbuster so i get free retals every week so my friends can get any film they want but have to bring it back the next day, so i very seldum have to give out my own dvds
I just don't lend out my CDs or DVDs any more. If people want 'em, they can go and buy them, I'm not a bloody lending library! Got sick of being taken advantage of a long time ago.
I lend them to friends and lend the odd one to workmates.
My friends are great people who I've no problem lending stuff to, and I don't mind the odd one to workmates.
If someone commented that I was a blockbuster alternative I'd write them out a card and tell them they can pay me £2 a day (plus I'd include any previous rentals in their first payment)
That would soon bring them back down to earth with a bump.
Do you know guys who point blank refuses to rent from Blockbuster when they say, they can take it off me for free.
I don't like paying for other peoples DVD habit, but what about you lot?
One guy i know has no DVDs at all, but is regularly asking to borrow, i lent him some vcds, got them back 3 months later, he didn't even have the courtesy to come back and give them, he said i should come and pick them. Not even a thank you.
I know they don't get damaged, but i hate feeling like a rental agency, paying my good money for them to just take.
don't get me wrong, i have friends who have DVD collections who i have no real problem lending to, it's just the leeches i am on about.
any thoughts?
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Same situation. I have one friend who’s had over ten of my discs for two years. I see him fairly regularly and he never offers them back. I had to give him a list last month of stuff I wanted back and I still haven’t seen them. For my trouble I got a really ****** look when I asked for them back too.
:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by jonathan.e
Same situation. I have one friend who’s had over ten of my discs for two years. I see him fairly regularly and he never offers them back. I had to give him a list last month of stuff I wanted back and I still haven’t seen them. For my trouble I got a really ****** look when I asked for them back too.
:rolleyes:
If that was me I'd just take them back, if he still has them!
Maybe the ****** look was him thinking "Damn I was hoping he had forgot about them, I lent those out ages ago and will never get them back"
Happend to me before with a VHS film (before DVD) never did get a replacement :mad:
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yeah I get "leeched" a fair bit I have some friends who buy stuff as much as me but there are some that just lend and lend. At the moment I have 2 series of friends and the sopranos lent to one person and another guy I know I lent about 10 things to including the Godfather boxset for some project he was doing. That was finished a bit ago and now he's trying to watch some of the films but when I went round to collect some he'd left them at a friends house! I know the guy quite well but he isn't someone I even see on a weekly basis. getting a bit cheesed but if you get angry at these "mates" then you're the one that looks like your in the wrong :oh-hum:
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No. Because none of my friends have a DVD player. Most of them dont even have a VCR!
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I lend mine to quite a few people but I usually get something in return in some from from all of them.
It does annoy me when I lend stuff to people and they lend it to someone else, it's only happened once or twice but I would never lend out anything someone had lent to me and I think other people should be the same.
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We buyers of DVDs can't win ... we simply can not. Those friends who buy DVDs anyway don't borrow off you, its only those who say "Why should I buy DVDs when I can lend them of you!" after me telling them DVDs are quite good value for money really and their always on sale.
When you ask for them back they always make you feel guilty as well - ********! :mad:
However I count my blessings as there was this one guy at work who had just bought a DVD player and for some reason I ended up talking talking DVDs with him.
It wasn't long before he wrote down a list of stuff he wanted to borrow! ... Now I only see this guy at work I don't know him from tom dick or harry just some guy you always see (he was a long term contractor) ... well I didn't say no he can't lend my DVDs but he kept on pestering me for 2 weeks and I always said I forgot to bring them in (arse couldn't take a hint!) ... well 3 weeks later he just disappeared and it turned out that he got transferred to another site and it was a scheduled transfer... the git had no intention of returning the DVDs back to me! :mad:
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On a slightly more favourable angle to this, my mate knew this guy who only had one DVD, bought it when DVDs had more or less begun.
This guys one and only DVD was The Killer: Criterion Collection
anyway he lent it to my mate and that was 3 years ago, the guy has disappeared, no contact, probably doesn't even have my mate's details.
And more importantly, doesn't care, because the guy doesn't know what the DVD really is.:norty: :nuts:
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I lend out a few to firends & family. I actually say to them - why rent/buy when you can borrow off me...
I don't really mind lending them out - but will agree that people always take they're sweet time in getting them back to me. I think I'm going to impose a limit on the amount people borrow from me in future.
I'd never lend anything to anyone at work anymore (unless I saw them on an off work basis as well), as I've had problems getting games/DVDs back in the past - and they're never in that good condition.
One thing I do say is that under no circumstances can my DVDs be lent to anyone else - if that ever happened, they'd be cut off...
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i hate lending them out. As i work in a game/dvd shop i see the state that the majority of people (us enthusiasts aside ;) ) keep their discs in. What really winds me up is when you open your doors to a group of your friends for a socialable evening round your gaff, then at the end of the night the ******** start sniffing round your dvd collection. Trouble is i'm too polite to say no. Whenever it happens it is always me - after two or three weeks - that ends up having to knock on peoples doors trying to retrieve my films. :mad:
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i lend mine to anyone, don't mind at all. yeah people keep them for months occasionally but i've got hundreds! i'll always have something to watch so it doesn't bother me.
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right then, well i'll email you and you can send me some.:)
Green trader, trustworthy and all that.:);)
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i get all the time from a m8
i dont really see him that often,and when a new film comes out that he want to watch ,comes knocking on my door ,
i just i dont have it,then he goes , does not say how you are doing or nothing ,just leaves
i used to lend him the stuff before , but the guy never lends any off his stuff , so now i dont lend him anything
Tafsir
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The odd few times that people from work borrow DVD's, I get them to chip into our tea & coffee money. I'm now almost fully paid up for the year!!:smokin:
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I work at Blockbuster so i get free retals every week so my friends can get any film they want but have to bring it back the next day, so i very seldum have to give out my own dvds
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I just don't lend out my CDs or DVDs any more. If people want 'em, they can go and buy them, I'm not a bloody lending library! Got sick of being taken advantage of a long time ago.
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I lend them to friends and lend the odd one to workmates.
My friends are great people who I've no problem lending stuff to, and I don't mind the odd one to workmates.
If someone commented that I was a blockbuster alternative I'd write them out a card and tell them they can pay me £2 a day (plus I'd include any previous rentals in their first payment)
That would soon bring them back down to earth with a bump.
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