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What do you do in Profiler with sold/lost DVDs?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Quoting DJ Doena:
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I started to delete them and a few years later I started to think about it (purchase statistics and so on).

Now it's too late and I simply continue removing them and renumbering the collection.


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Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantBlair
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I'm surprised at the number of people who outright delete their DVDs rather thna save thme in some other manner.  If anything, as a reminder, "Did I like that movie? Did I even OWN at movie at some point?"

I never would have called that percentage for this poll.
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Quoting Blair:
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I'm surprised at the number of people who outright delete their DVDs rather thna save thme in some other manner.  If anything, as a reminder, "Did I like that movie? Did I even OWN at movie at some point?"

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I only get rid of DVDs that I replace with Blu-rays. I give them to my brother-in-law.

Once they are gone, they are gone! What do I need the old data for, I now have a new Blu-ray of that film. 

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Paul Francis
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Since I wasn't using DVD Profiler from the beginning, my purchase history would be incomplete anyway, so I just don't bother and delete them. I might have done it differently if I had to start over again.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKathy
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I chose "Other".

I have traded for a few DVDs but I can't remember ever having lost any. I thought about selling them but, after being offered a quarter a piece, I decided I'd rather give them away to people who would love them like I do.

I donate a lot of DVDs to several nursing homes and veterans organizations. I keep track of those in a separate categories. I don't want to bring them things they already have.

The other movies I give away I put into a separate category because I don't want to accidentally buy them again.
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Quoting Blair:
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I'm surprised at the number of people who outright delete their DVDs rather thna save thme in some other manner.  If anything, as a reminder, "Did I like that movie? Did I even OWN at movie at some point?"

I never would have called that percentage for this poll.


I keep seperate word pages of all the things I watch, often with notes like "no matter what you are thinking, never bother with this pile of crap again" or "great flick, need to pick up someday".
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantlasitter
Registered: May 30, 2008
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I do a lot of stuff on Swap.com, and for a long time I just deleted items from the collection when I traded them away. I finally realized I was throwing away some valuable information, so I now have a category for "traded / returned / other" where I move the titles.

Then in the notes section I put information about the specific trade involved, and what I got in return for the traded item.

When I look back, it's pretty entertaining to see how often really awful movies generated trades for something that won lots of awards.
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