Sheffbag Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Used Rob Butcher for mine. used to spend ages going through his catalogue trying to pick. first one was KOTDM and an early 80's Memphis comp of varying quality. found him a top guy and got a lot of ECW from him and his sheik collections was great. Its different now with the network, gone are the days of anticipation waiting for the vid. Now you just click and its there.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted October 17, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted October 17, 2017 I've recently noticed that HMV's wrestling DVD section is a lot bigger than it used to be, even during the heights of the "Attitude Era". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 19 minutes ago, bAzTNM#1 said: I've recently noticed that HMV's wrestling DVD section is a lot bigger than it used to be, even during the heights of the "Attitude Era". Not checked the DVD/Blu Ray section in HMV in ages. Do you still need a second Mortgage to buy the latest WWE release from them? As for Tape Trading, I used to buy from Glen Radford, purchased many a early Nitro episodes (think each tape had 3 episodes on) and WCW PPV from him as well as a ECW T shirt, which at the time were quite difficult to get hold of - ridiculous as that sounds now when most things can purchased within a couple of clicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby dazzler Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Glen Radford had the worst handwriting I have ever seen in my life. Bloody good tapes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidzero Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 I remember spending a good bit of money on strong style tapes getting ECW,fwa,..etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 10 hours ago, Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz said: Not checked the DVD/Blu Ray section in HMV in ages. Do you still need a second Mortgage to buy the latest WWE release from them? As for Tape Trading, I used to buy from Glen Radford, purchased many a early Nitro episodes (think each tape had 3 episodes on) and WCW PPV from him as well as a ECW T shirt, which at the time were quite difficult to get hold of - ridiculous as that sounds now when most things can purchased within a couple of clicks. For the most part yes, they have started trimming prices on certain sets to the £10-13 mark and some PPVs are part of the 2 for £10 promotion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted October 18, 2017 I traded quite abit, looking back it was a pretty strange thing to do, my parents certainly didn't understand it but at that time i loved it, being woken up by the postman delivering a package of 8th gen. ECW TV was pretty exciting. Cant remember many traders names other than Dave Pick & Matt M. i dealt with loads though. I rememger one specific guy made me a 8 hour long WCW TV compilation  I selected matches/segments and he went away and made it, it must have taken him days and i gave him about 5 quid for it. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted October 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted October 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Egg Shen said: I rememger one specific guy made me a 8 hour long WCW TV compilation  I selected matches/segments and he went away and made it, it must have taken him days and i gave him about 5 quid for it. Good times. Jesus, yeah, I'd never given any thought to the amount of time and effort some of these blokes must have actually put in to making compilations of shit for teenage boys, and only charging pocket money for the privilege. What an odd thing it all was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briefcase Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 On 17 October 2017 at 11:23 AM, Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz said: Not checked the DVD/Blu Ray section in HMV in ages. Do you still need a second Mortgage to buy the latest WWE release from them? As for Tape Trading, I used to buy from Glen Radford, purchased many a early Nitro episodes (think each tape had 3 episodes on) and WCW PPV from him as well as a ECW T shirt, which at the time were quite difficult to get hold of - ridiculous as that sounds now when most things can purchased within a couple of clicks. Some are ridiculously priced at like around the £20+ mark although they are packaged in a way that actually make some DVD's tempting to buy (must be the nostalgic side in me) Does make for a good browse though and there is quite a variety of things. I remember back in the day though when you would find ECW/WCW DVD's in HMV (Tottenham Court Road) and other random ones (maybe ROH?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drfunke Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Spent a fortune tape trading back in the day, got ripped off by SiMania and bumped out £20 quid once, actually was banned from this forum for complaining about it at the time which is mental lol  Miss VHS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted October 18, 2017 Surprised to hear that, because SiMania was never anything but top-notch when I bought from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drfunke Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 2 hours ago, Carbomb said: Surprised to hear that, because SiMania was never anything but top-notch when I bought from him. I bought loads aswell...i mean this was over a decade ago but i think it was a misunderstanding but i was due a refund or replacement and it never happened but was more pissed off at the time they kicked me off of here. Mustbe been a mates thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SBD Posted October 19, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2017 I remember getting tapes from Glen Radford and Mike Hough who went on to open Extreme Central Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landy1987 Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 This is a long shot but I’ll ask here and see if anyone can help me. Does anyone remember our version of WWF Superstars on Sky One from 1997-1999 when Gorilla Monsoon was still doing the commentary? I’ve been searching high and low for these but can’t find anyone with them! If anyone thinks they may have some of these please let me know! Thanks. There’s a couple of odd matches on YouTube but that’s it   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatseeker Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 I remember buying a tape of Red Lightning the young trainee wrestler and he never sent the tape. Knob.  Matt M was the first trader I used. I bought from Simania and I think JFFC was the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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