However, simply posting a VHS on eBay doesn’t guarantee you’ll get big bucks — the condition must be top-notch. VHS tapes degrade 10% to 20% over 10 to 25 years, and some footage could be ...

VHS – short for video home system – are cassette tapes that record analog video content. (iStock) Heritage Auctions, a Dallas-based auction house, on the other hand, has 260 VHS tapes up for sale.

She inherited some of them from her grandmother, a children’s librarian with a vast collection. Ms. Bleakney’s VHS tapes are “huge nostalgia,” she said, for a child of the 1980s.

The VHS auction, organized by Texas-based Heritage Auctions, featured a total of 260 sealed VHS tapes, most of which were classic, first-edition copies of beloved films from the ‘70s and ‘80s.

On National VCR Day, get rid of VHS tapes by selling them online, recycling them through a company or donating them. Be sure to digitize home videos first.

But, Henderson said, unlike with vinyl records, no one seems to cling to VHS for romantic reasons. “DVDs replaced VHS really fast compared to other format changes through the years,” Henderson ...

The most collectible "classic" VHS movies — like Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Ghostbusters — could be worth $25k on vintage movies auction sites — or more.