At the beginning of December I was alerted to a very interesting auction on the e of the bay. This particular auction was for a box of random VHS tapes, or as the seller so colourfully described as "LUCKY DIP A BOX OF MYSTERY VHS VIDEO TAPES, WHATS INSIDE THE BOX???".
When two words like 'mystery' and 'tapes' are thrown together into a sentence, well, you can imagine how fast my heart was pumping.
The little VHS fairy appeared on my right shoulder telling me that the box would be filled with nothing more than Jane Fonda workout tapes, and on the left shoulder the devil himself appeared and planted the seed in my brain that maybe the seller knew nothing about rare tapes, and maybe, just maybe the box had the potential to be a Video Nasties dream haul. My mind was made. I placed my bid.
I purchased the tapes two weeks before Christmas and asked my wife if she would wrap each tape up individually, that way I would have 25 mysteries as opposed to just one, she reluctantly agreed.
Unfortunately the tapes didn't arrive in time for the big day, or even in December at all, prompting me to leave the following feedback on the sellers page - "The biggest mystery was the delivery date."
On January 11th the tapes finally arrived, and I wasn't exactly in the greatest of moods when the doorbell rang either, so instead of getting excited I simply ripped the box apart. What fell out were nothing more than mainstream sell through releases and simply bad films in general. The fairy was right!
It's amusing to me that the rarest tape among this bunch is a pre-cert Shakin' Stevens video. Had it have been delivered on time, I might have found it all a little more worthwhile. Never again.
The original ebay link can be found here.
