"Everything is instantly available nowadays, but there are times where I still wish it was like the old days where I'd race to the mailbox after school hoping for a new pack or tapes or newsletter.
While everything today, both old and new, can be easily obtained online, tape trading aficionados like powerfulmgp will always look back and reminisce about the good ol' days. And if you attend your local independent wrestling promotion, you're bound to run across tables selling compilation DVDs of famous wrestlers, Japanese and Mexican footage that's still hard to obtain, and more. Sites like IVPVideos still sells most footage not owned by WWE on Blu-ray and DVDs. While the rise of broadband internet, YouTube, and other streaming services rendered a lot of tape trading obsolete, the practice still exist. "And if you found a good trader, it didn't feel weird for long because you knew they could be trusted to come through." "It was weird but you knew that if you didn't, you weren't getting tapes, so you had to take the leap," CaramelLuchador, another member of the message board, told me. But they could also be ripped off just as easily, with swindlers popping up in every corner looking for tapes or even money without reimbursement. On one hand, they could get footage that they'd only ever read about in newsletters or magazines. It was a risk versus reward scenario for fans who delved into this secretive underbelly. "No interest in just flat out selling tapes for cash, which didn't do a whole lot of good for anyone just starting out." "The biggest was that a lot of the traders were super snobs about it and were only interested in trading," another Wrestling Observer message board member, spman, told me. In return, people would either trade for these tapes with tapes they had in their own collection or would pay money outright to obtain them.
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The trader would then send back a full list of what they had. People would send a letter to someone who had tapes available for trade, which were often advertised in newsletters like the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and in the many printed magazines of the era.
The tape trading process was pretty simple. "It was pretty seamless, although if you didn't do your research you could easily get ripped off." "Message boards, chatrooms, email lists, newsletter connections, websites with 'want lists', there were dozens of different places to find people to trade with," Wrestling Observer message board user japjesus told me. But as the internet came along, things became a lot easier. It wasn't just international tapes people were looking for since the wrestling business back then was still mostly regional people could get tapes from many local promotions from all over the US that were on television. With the popularity of the VHS tape format booming in the early to mid 1980s, many wrestling fans would trade tapes via wrestling newsletters that were mailed all over the world, with the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Pro Wrestling Torch being the more prominent newsletters.
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