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Post by Mr. Old School™ on May 2, 2016 0:48:31 GMT -5
Hey guys,
Long story short, years ago I bought this tape at a local video shop which was going under at the time but never realized how rare and valuable it was until minutes ago.
I had no idea it was so rare and valuable. I'm just stunned.
I was watching YouTube videos of people's collections and this guy said it was the rarest wrestling tape period.
Does anyone else happen to own this rare tape as well??
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on May 2, 2016 1:16:34 GMT -5
I don't own it, but I do remember hearing years ago that the WCW Bash At The Beach 2000 show was mega rare.
I believe there are a lot of WCW PPVs during that time frame that are considered rare and thus go for big money. Especially the last few PPVs. Since I don't believe a lot were made and distributed.
The thing is, having a rare VHS wrestling tape that goes for big money is cool and all if you collect wrestling VHS tapes, but if you ever decide to sell it, it can be frustrating because it may have a hard time selling if the price is too high - even though you have seen it sell for that price or even much higher.
The WWE Network has definitely caused certain prices to drop on things. But maybe because its a WCW VHS tape, it would still be sought after.
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on May 2, 2016 12:26:24 GMT -5
I seriously doubt I would ever sell or part with any of my old wrestling tapes. They can be rare and worth a lot, but I'd never sell them.
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Post by PJ on May 2, 2016 13:10:29 GMT -5
I had the copy I made during the PPV, but all my old WCW and WWE PPV tapes were ruined in storage years ago.
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on May 2, 2016 14:26:55 GMT -5
I had the copy I made during the PPV, but all my old WCW and WWE PPV tapes were ruined in storage years ago. How did they get ruined, if you don't mind me asking. That must've really sucked when you found that out. |
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Post by PJ on May 2, 2016 14:30:43 GMT -5
There was a leak in the facility and the box with all my tapes was what got wet.
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on May 2, 2016 18:12:47 GMT -5
There was a leak in the facility and the box with all my tapes was what got wet. Damn, that's too bad. |
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Post by jason1980s on May 5, 2016 7:53:58 GMT -5
WCW was never that great at promoting their products in the first place. By 2000, they were probably giving up on videos.
The local video stores would generally only have one or two NWA/WCW VHS tapes compared to 50-100 of WWFs.
The little promotion of tapes they did was a handful of merchandise catalogs (again, compared to multiple for WWF). They had a few the first wave of WCW Magazine but I never saw another ad for VHS until late 1997 and that was only advertising past VHS tapes (1995-1996 face Hogan era).
Considering how much companies charged for VHS tapes back in the day, it's nice some of the tapes still hold value.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2016 7:55:41 GMT -5
What makes this VHS so rare?
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on May 5, 2016 12:36:20 GMT -5
WCW was never that great at promoting their products in the first place. By 2000, they were probably giving up on videos. The local video stores would generally only have one or two NWA/WCW VHS tapes compared to 50-100 of WWFs. The little promotion of tapes they did was a handful of merchandise catalogs (again, compared to multiple for WWF). They had a few the first wave of WCW Magazine but I never saw another ad for VHS until late 1997 and that was only advertising past VHS tapes (1995-1996 face Hogan era). Considering how much companies charged for VHS tapes back in the day, it's nice some of the tapes still hold value. Weren't some of the later 1995 WCW tapes labelled 1996 too?? Like World War 3 and Starrcade had the 1996 year on them when they were the 1995 ones. |
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Post by Mark Martin on May 5, 2016 15:40:05 GMT -5
I always noticed that too, when I was younger I really wanted all of WCW 2000 on VHS but a lot of them were expensive and BATB took the cake. Same with WCW 1997, almost every VHS is still in the 100s.
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Post by jason1980s on May 6, 2016 14:06:36 GMT -5
WCW was never that great at promoting their products in the first place. By 2000, they were probably giving up on videos. The local video stores would generally only have one or two NWA/WCW VHS tapes compared to 50-100 of WWFs. The little promotion of tapes they did was a handful of merchandise catalogs (again, compared to multiple for WWF). They had a few the first wave of WCW Magazine but I never saw another ad for VHS until late 1997 and that was only advertising past VHS tapes (1995-1996 face Hogan era). Considering how much companies charged for VHS tapes back in the day, it's nice some of the tapes still hold value. Weren't some of the later 1995 WCW tapes labelled 1996 too?? Like World War 3 and Starrcade had the 1996 year on them when they were the 1995 ones. Oh yes, that's a good point. I remember trying to find certain years only to be confused and the video store clerks (who didn't know wrestling were even more confused). WWF did the same thing but only with the 1st Survivor Series as far as I know which was labeled 1988 copyright. Multiple times I would call video stores asking for 1988 Survivor Series only to find out it was 1st annual. I guess I should've caught on... |
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Post by tnafan17: The Total Package on May 8, 2016 7:13:59 GMT -5
I always wanted New Blood Rising PPV for some reason.
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Post by Spoder Juan on May 8, 2016 8:03:49 GMT -5
I had 1998 Uncensored and Spring Stampede when I was kid, unfortunately I think they're out of commission.
RIP.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2016 10:41:20 GMT -5
WCW was never that great at promoting their products in the first place. By 2000, they were probably giving up on videos. The local video stores would generally only have one or two NWA/WCW VHS tapes compared to 50-100 of WWFs. The little promotion of tapes they did was a handful of merchandise catalogs (again, compared to multiple for WWF). They had a few the first wave of WCW Magazine but I never saw another ad for VHS until late 1997 and that was only advertising past VHS tapes (1995-1996 face Hogan era). Considering how much companies charged for VHS tapes back in the day, it's nice some of the tapes still hold value. Weren't some of the later 1995 WCW tapes labelled 1996 too?? Like World War 3 and Starrcade had the 1996 year on them when they were the 1995 ones. For whatever reason they did that throughout 96 also. World war 3 and Starrcade 96 were labelled 97. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on May 8, 2016 11:22:26 GMT -5
Weren't some of the later 1995 WCW tapes labelled 1996 too?? Like World War 3 and Starrcade had the 1996 year on them when they were the 1995 ones. For whatever reason they did that throughout 96 also. World war 3 and Starrcade 96 were labelled 97. You may be right with that now that you mention it. I wonder if that happened because said tapes weren't released until that following year. Like yes, WWIII and Starrcade took place in 1995, but by the time the VHS tape of them came out it was 1996. So maybe the distributors got mixed up that way and put down the wrong year. Only WCW could manage that! haha |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2016 11:29:52 GMT -5
For whatever reason they did that throughout 96 also. World war 3 and Starrcade 96 were labelled 97. You may be right with that now that you mention it. I wonder if that happened because said tapes weren't released until that following year. Like yes, WWIII and Starrcade took place in 1995, but by the time the VHS tape of them came out it was 1996. So maybe the distributors got mixed up that way and put down the wrong year. Only WCW could manage that! haha That's probably it honestly. |
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Post by jason1980s on May 8, 2016 16:56:27 GMT -5
The incorrect dating of VHS tapes is a small reason I'm glad WWF "won" the war. If you can't get the dating correct on video labeling, you shouldn't be trusted to handle a major wrestling company. And if it were just a lower level VHS company employee, someone in WCW upper management could've kept better track. There was never a time we weren't aware of a WWF VHS release. They were in your face about marketing their products.
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Post by cmiller79 on May 14, 2016 3:24:56 GMT -5
Now that I know tapes got mislabeled I'm questioning my entire childhood
Wcw is gonna cause me to have trust issues for the rest of my life and they ain't been in business for 15 years
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