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Interesting idea.  $0.  Although, it also occured to me, if  I rented this, and lost the DVD, how much would they charge for a replacement?  That I might be able to find out...  I am friendly with the local manager.

Depends on the title..,  I'm sure if you lost a title that has been in their system for a number of years they would work out a fair ressonable sale price.. If it is a new, less than 30 days old catalogue title, you may be looking at full price.

That is exactly how we used to do it for lost titles.

I would agree, Darxon.

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Wow, what a discussion.  As for the one person who asked about release date, i would use the original title date. but that is just me.  Besides there probably would not be a concrete one for PV titles.

I agree that technically a rental copy wouldn't have a SRP.  That being said, I would probably either go with 0 since it never had a SRP (my pick) or use one from a non-rental version (though that would never be a correct SRP).

Ok, this is coming off of what I know about rental copy prices based off VHS when I worked at a video store.  Example is Hackers.  For a rental copy of Hackers it was like $80.  Scream was like $150 or something like that.  I am not sure if it is the same practice now for DVDs.  I know that rental places will typically charge the SRP for a lost DVD, but I know of some smaller places that have billed for what they paid for their rental copy.

Also, an extra tidbit if you didn't know.  A movie at a video store is typically kept as a "new release" until the place makes their money back considering the expensive price of rental copies.

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Ok, this is coming off of what I know about rental copy prices based off VHS when I worked at a video store.  Example is Hackers.  For a rental copy of Hackers it was like $80.  Scream was like $150 or something like that.  I am not sure if it is the same practice now for DVDs.

While some rental versions are actually a bit more expensive than the (usually later) released retail versions, the differences are nowhere near the prices charged for rental VHS tapes back in the day. With the release dates for the most part (March of the Penguins had a 6 month rental window) at a maximum difference of up to four weeks, the temptation for rental places to low stock initially and restock by buying retail versions a couple of weeks later would be too great. Plus, there are numerous examples of rental versions containing less extras than the retail version, lessening their value for re-sale significantly.

Rumor has it, that the old rental tapes had a significantly higher quality with regards to durability than the retail versions by using a thicker and longer lasting tape, as they were intended for a significantly higher number of playbacks. That also added to the price.

With DVDs, that's no longer necessary.

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Oh man, changing all those Hollywood titles to $0 SRP is really gonna mess up my "money saved from paying full price" stats bad.
Even though I got most of them for under $5, I also have a bunch of former rentals I scanned and submitted with existing info (when it was right, I checked 80-90% of the discs and audited many of them), but never thought about SRP and just left it.

If you're using SRP to support your "money saved" stats, I'd recommend you go ahead and put an SRP into your profile, lock it, and be sure that you never contribute it (and thereby corrupt the online database).  You might have to put a reminder in the NOTES section so you don't inadvertently contribute your SRP data.  But at least this way you could continue to do your savings analysis.

I'll just go ahead and lock them in if and when they come up. Just seeing my picture in the "contributer's list" lets me know it's right.

Ah, Err, except for a few older contribs, those are probably worth re-auditing. Most of my former rentals were picked up during the mass Hollywood closing in town, I understood everything by then.

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Oh man, changing all those Hollywood titles to $0 SRP is really gonna mess up my "money saved from paying full price" stats bad.

Isn't that a bit of lying to yourself?

I can't remember if I have ever paid the price that's supposed to be the SRP in the profile - not even when I bought it on release date.

But you'll be able to compare "price paid" with "SRP", and get "money saved from paying full price". If a rental disc has an SRP of $0, then your money saved on that title will be negative, which will screw up the whole thing.