BAD QUALITY? I'm asking because I was trying to pick something off a trader's list and when i picked what I wanted, I was told the quality was bad. So my reaction to him was why is it still on his list if the quality is bad?-LOL Nothing on my have list is bad in quality. When it was I removed it off my list. So just wondering does any other trader keep things posted on their have list that have bad quality? And if you do Why?

I know that some traders will list things even if they are in bad quality because they are so rare, and someone might want it even if it's bad quality because of the rarity. I recently picked up a movie I've been looking for for over 20 years, and the trader I got it from warned me the quality wasn't very good, but it was the best she'd been able to find in many years of searching. I'm happy to finally have the film. I've felt the same way about other series where I've tracked down a missing episode - okay, it's crappy quality, but I can watch it, and I can now look for an upgrade.

I've also seen lists that include stuff that's bad quality or not to be traded so that potential traders know not to offer those programs in trade.

My list is really my library list (generated from a database I designed), and I really need to redesign it. There are a lot of programs that I have now in complete form on commercial DVD, so they are no longer tradable. And in other situations, while I have the show on commercial DVD, I still have my off-air tapes, which I wouldn't mind trading to a new home. But if I were to eliminate commercially released shows from my list, people looking to trade with me would think they had something I needed to complete my collection, when the opposite is true.

Originally posted by debwalsh
I know that some traders will list things even if they are in bad quality because they are so rare, and someone might want it even if it's bad quality because of the rarity. I recently picked up a movie I've been looking for for over 20 years, and the trader I got it from warned me the quality wasn't very good, but it was the best she'd been able to find in many years of searching. I'm happy to finally have the film. I've felt the same way about other series where I've tracked down a missing episode - okay, it's crappy quality, but I can watch it, and I can now look for an upgrade.

I've also seen lists that include stuff that's bad quality or not to be traded so that potential traders know not to offer those programs in trade.

My list is really my library list (generated from a database I designed), and I really need to redesign it. There are a lot of programs that I have now in complete form on commercial DVD, so they are no longer tradable. And in other situations, while I have the show on commercial DVD, I still have my off-air tapes, which I wouldn't mind trading to a new home. But if I were to eliminate commercially released shows from my list, people looking to trade with me would think they had something I needed to complete my collection, when the opposite is true.


Everything on my list, even the rare stuff I try to have atleast 7/10 quality. Maybe 6/10 if it's really rare but no lower than that. I had the entire series of Three's a Crowd and 18 of the 22 eps were horrible in quality and i had to trash it. Looked like it was dubbed 666 times-lol

I have loads of stuff unlisted because of not being good enough to trade, and I only list shows that are fair quality when they're rare.

I gauge my quality right on my list so that I don't end up with dead ended questions, which wastes everyone's time. If someone chooses something that isn't very good quality, that's their choice.

i doubt wether i will offer anything under 6/10 picture/sound on my have list because i am fussy about having sets that have decent picture and sound.it really doesn't matter because i own digital conversion equipment worth over $700dollars that makes copies come out better than my originals no kidding!!
my first box converts the signal to one of five different world formats then sends it to a tbc with colour correction the result is an excellent looking and sounding copy.

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In my book, rarity negates quality. There are some shows for which I'd trade even if they were a '1' on a scale of '1-10' with '10' being the best and '1' being abysmal. These shows include HARRIS AGAINST THE WORLD, TOM DICK AND MARY,
NORBY, SHOWDOWN(with Joe Pyne), SNAP JUDGEMENT, YOU'RE IN THE PICTURE(with Jackie Gleason), CALL MY BLUFF, YOU'RE PUTTING ME ON and THE MONEYMAKERS.

Exactly. I'd rather know someone has something I've been looking for, even in bad quality, than to never know it was there because it falls below an arbitrary quality scale. For example, I'm looking to complete Second Hundred Years, a sitcom lasting only one season from the '60s. I have episodes in very good quality, I have episodes that are black and white from film transfers, I have episodes that are barely watchable, and there are episodes I still need. If someone has those episodes I need to complete the series in a less than stellar quality, I'd still be interested, because I want to be able to watch all of the episodes. I don't trade for a show's tradability, I trade to complete a show I like or have always wanted to see.

That said, I do try to maintain good quality in my recordings. And I don't trust a lot of people's quality scales because quality is so subjective. More than once I've traded for something the trader considered to be "A" quality, and was maybe a "C" in my opinion.

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