Clear out your unwatched movies for hard cash (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Clear out your unwatched movies for hard cash

BLOCKBUSTER stores in Swindon are offering hard cash to residents who hand over the DVDs and videos that are gathering dust.

According to industry estimates, there are over a billion VHS movies in British homes plus nearly half a billion DVDs an average of 75 per household that are no longer watched.

With this growing mountain of movies, Blockbuster UK believes it's high time that film fans gave their movie collections a bit of a spring clean and brought unwanted or unwatched titles into their local Blockbuster to trade them in for store credit or cash.

The company recently launched a nationwide service that offers customers the chance to trade in unwanted movies, games and games hardware. The most traded-in movies have tended to be the big budget hits including The Matrix, Independence Day, Men in Black and Titanic.

Even some of Hollywood's less than successful films like Heavens Gate, Cutthroat Island and Howard the Duck have a place in someone's collection or are on another fan's waiting list.

Blockbuster stores in Swindon are located in the Orbital Centre in Thamesdown Drive and the West Swindon Centre.