I used to and will still sometimes lend out a disc I know would be cheap and easy to replace.
Most times when a friend asks to borrow, I'll invite them to watch it at my place. If timing isn't right, I'll fire up dvdfab and make a dub for them to borrow. Now I just need to remember to get those dubs back for future lending.

No one, not Mom, not anyone who works with me or my wife, and especially not one of my kids... no one borrows any of my DVDs or CDs. I don't care how caring a collector you are, how big your collection is, how much you pay me, the answer is no you cannot borrow it.

Never in my life have I received anything lent out in reasonable condition. When I was in the Air Force, my supervisor was a avid book reader. He cared for his books. They all looked brand new after he read them. I would never imagine borrowing a book from him, knowing no matter how well I treated it, that he could find a flaw in it after I read it. So "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" comes out in paperback. My wife reads it, then I read it. He sees me reading it, asks to borrow it after I finish. I figure the guy cares for books, it'll be retured as beautifully as one of his own books, why not...

I'll tell you why not... the moment I handed him my book, he bent the spine enough to crack it, and read it with the front cover touching the back. He dog-earred a page to mark his place nearly immediately. He ate a tuna sandwich while eating it, adding the stain and aroma of dead fish to the texture of many pages. When he finished reading it, he loaned it to someone I didn't know. When I asked for it back, he told me, ask Sgt. Smith, he has it. So I asked Smith (whom I still didn't know) and he said he lent it to a guy who was shipping off to Saigon.

So, no. I don't care who you are, I will never lend you anything I own. Ever. If you borrow it, you've stolen it, and I will treat you like I would treat a thief.

We okay with this? Have we reached a mutual understanding?

Just... NO!

Quoting Jubal:

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See the Blockbuster Article in my sig.

Skip

Damn Skip, that's pure genious. 

Quoting Agrare:

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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

Oh you poor guy, you know your collection is lost right?

Only to very, very close people, mostly my family, but to others... no. I've lost too many of my things to do that again.

I have only ever lent dvd's to 2 of my friends, because I knew they would look after them, everyone else I know I just cant trust enough.

Blu-rays i don't have much of a problem with as there fairly idiot proof but DVD's are easily scratched and most people don't know how to properly handle a disc so no 

I do loan a few to my secretary because she knows I can fire her.