I know we have done this one in the past.  I am putting it up now though because I have recently made a friend who has been great.  He offers to loan me his DVD's regularly if it is a film I do not have.  The problem is when we talk collections he always say, "Wow, that is a great flick do you think I could borrow it sometime."  He has the love of the collection and collecting that I do so I know it would come back in mint condition in a timely basis.  But then I think to the other person I loan to who loves my collection often offers up theirs but a let me borrow until next week turns into a month or more.  So take the poll and let me know if I have gotten mean or crazy in my old age.

Marcus

It really depends on who it is. I don't know anyone else who has a collection like mine but there are a few who I trust to take care of them.

In general, I do not loan out my DVD's. I have 2 friends who have huge DVD and CD collections, and know how to handle the discs. They are the only ones I trust.

All the others, just like Pete said, are welcome to come over and watch it at my place.

There are 3 people I let borrow DVDs.  Each of them I see all the time and they know how much I value my collection. 

I've learned my lesson with anyone else.  If I were to make a new acquaintance, who might happen to ask to borrow something, I might let them borrow something I could replace cheaply to see if they could be trusted (something I could get for $1 at my store).  But I wouldn't let them borrow anything that would be difficult or expensive to replace until they had proven themselves. 

And I'd known them for a few years.  And I knew where they lived and had refrigerator privileges.  Like I could just walk into their house and eat something in their fridge.  That's me and my 3 peeps that I do let borrow.

No loans anymore.  I've learned my lesson on loaning things to people.  That also played into the "no roommates ever again" policy I have.

No loans at all. Friends and family are welcome to watch my dvd's together with me in my house!

I loan them happily to my good friends and family, if someone breaks something they need to rebuy it for me , but luckily that hasn't happened so far

cheers
Donnie

I loan to 3 (now technically 2) people

1) my brother, he also has a collection and I know will take care of my discs. I'd probably loan to my other brother cause he would take care of it too but he's not as into movies as me and has netflix anyway. Even the brother I loan to doesn't borrow that much

2) my fiancee, though now that we live together and have merged our collections there is no need to

3) my fiancee's best friend...cause she makes me. I tried to put my foot down and say know but you can figure out how good that worked out. Her friend knows to take care of my dvds though. They (her and her boyfriend) did swap around all my Rocky discs when they returned them to bust me though

In college I had a pretty open policy with my frat brothers, just a sign out sheet so I knew where they were. Only had one case get damaged (from an inebriated person peeling off the security sticker  )

-Agrare