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My Stupid Wife Sold My Copies

posted 12 years ago by ScarletSpider87
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My wife had a garage sale and, without asking me, sold my Zorro VHS tapes! MY Zorro VHS tapes! You don't see me selling anything of hers!

I worked long and hard to find them when I bought them, and now I have nothing to show my children. I want my children to grow up watching the real Zorro, just like I did.

Even though Disney released the series on DVD, the first season cost $200 on Amazon. Outrageous! I don't have that kind of money to spend on movies right now.

I am so, so sad right now that I don't have my Zorro. When will I have it again? THE PAIN! THE PAIN!

I am even considering putting an ad in the newspaper asking whoever bought them to sell them back, I want them that bad. But sadly, they will probably throw them away because everyone is getting rid of VHS. Think of the waste. I want to drink my beer and sing sad songs like Sergeant Garcia.

[–] pitsburghfuzz 11 years ago

Dude, that sucks! Its ridiculous how expensive this series is.

[–] sfgiantsboy 11 years ago

You can watch all the episodes on youtube.

[–] deforest-1 11 years ago

First, throw your wife away so she can't do it again.

[–] bdanceboy85 10 years ago

What a b (itch!!

[–] liscarkat-2 9 years ago

Calling your wife stupid is dishonorable. Zorro will punish you.

[–] ronaldt49 8 years ago

Wives can be replaced.

VHS Zorro tapes can't be!!!!

[–] ScarletSpider87 8 years ago

This man makes a good point.

[–] LittleBrother55 8 years ago

Four years later, I can't help but wonder if you ever realized that your wife was secretly working for... The Eagle!

[–] ScarletSpider87 8 years ago

Lol. You're probably right.

BTW, can you guys believe that the first season of Zorro is STILL almost $300 on Amazon? Who in the world do they think is going to pay that much? It's not even fair. I would have replaced my lost videos long ago, if it were not for that insane price.

[–] LittleBrother55 8 years ago

Well, I do believe it-- even if it's as wrong as two left shoes, as the saying goes.

I don't know if it'll happen with the "Zorro" series, but you may know that sellers usually set those outrageous prices because the item is "out of print"-- or whatever it's called when the DVD-maker discontinues a product.

Sometimes a series remains in limbo for years, probably because there's some legal dispute over the rights, or some corporation has the rights but for whatever reason isn't interested in re-releasing the product.

Then suddenly somebody makes a deal, and Shout Factory or a comparable DVD house reissues the DVDs at normal price.

I went through this a few years ago, when a family member asked for a "Hill Street Blues" DVD for Christmas. I was stunned to discover that the DVDs were scarce as hen's teeth and exorbitantly priced.

Then I realized that they were being marketed as "collectors' items", because they were out of print.

In 2014, the catalog was re-released, and the boxed series set cost less than one of those "collectible" earlier releases.

[–] ScarletSpider87 8 years ago

I hope the same thing happens with Zorro soon.

[–] micklips2013 7 years ago

Time to look again fella. Here in the UK you can pick them up on DVD for £33.

[–] CarolTheDabbler (521) 2 years ago

We have a region-free DVD player, and Amazon US was selling a Region 2 DVD ("Zorro - La Prima Serie Completa") from Italy but with multiple audio settings for language, including the original English track. The price was very reasonable. It's just the first season (as the Italian title translates), but that's 39 episodes, nearly half of the whole series. It's currently out of stock ("we don't know when or if..."), but Amazon says it's not discontinued, so apparently there's hope.