Over many years our family has accumulated a HUGE mass of movies and TV shows on physical media – DVDs & BluRays mostly. Over the past month or so we’ve been doing a slow, much-needed clean-up of everything, and wound up with boxes and boxes of these movies and TV shows. Since everything went digital, we have pretty much re-purchased everything we really want to keep in digital format and we’ve found that we no longer have a use for the original DVDs and BluRays we purchased over the years.

We know there are plenty of people out there that still prefer their media on physical discs, so we’ve decided to hold a simple raffle and just give whole whole lot away to one lucky winner. We could probably make a lot more money selling everything off one-by-one, with everyone looking through everything and picking and choosing what they want and just paying for those items, but then we’d be stuck with all the “bottom of the barrell” leftovers we still need to get rid of, and we’d have a lot of visitors and strangers coming and going just to take a look. A rummage sale was a thought, but again, that’s about the same situation.

So we settled on a simple solution of a raffle – $1.00 per ticket, $5 for 6 tickets. Simple as that. A raffle seems like the simplest and cleanest way to just get rid of the whole lot, unconditionally, with the least hassle. Maybe we get back a little of our investment, maybe not, but at least we’ll get some space back. So far I’ve taken a photo of each box, from the top, 7 boxes so far, to give you an idea of what you’re bidding on. You can see a few top items, but each box is packed full to the top with original DVDs and Blu-Rays. NO RIPPED COPIES. These are all original, purchased DVDs, BluRays, and box sets.

The raffle tickets arrive tomorrow, so I hope to be able to publish the raffle officially on Facebook some time tomorrow, maybe even in a local garage-sale site or two, just to drum up some interest. I think we’ll even be able to take digital payments using Paypal, which accepts credit cards, so people can fully purchase tickets online and I’ll e-mail them their ticket numbers and drop them in the raffle bucket for them and keep their contact portion on-hand until the drawing.

I’m thinking a Halloween drawing would be perfect. Easy to remember all around, and this year Halloween is on a Saturday, so it’s perfect. Maybe do the drawing live on Facebook…

I’ll get the photos up on my website today, and get some more stuff prepped, including a flyer. Stay tuned for more info.