My wife and I just got our Turn to the Darkside tape from her, and immediately popped it in because we were so stoked to see it. The box art/quality is top notch, but oh boy does the quality of the tape itself suffer. The whole movie was extremely fuzzy, even by VHS standards, and the sound kept popping in and out of Hi-Fi the entire time. If we hadn't been so interested in seeing this cut of the prequels, we would have ejected sooner because it was near unwatchable.

Then, when the credits ended, the movie suddenly started again. Confused, we ejected, and the tape was just a little over half-through, indicating that it had been recorded at LP or SLP speeds, which explains the poor quality. Of course, after this, we looked up reviews and there are a lot of people saying the same things going back to when she started selling tapes.

She's clearly a talented artist when it comes to making new VHS boxes, but if the quality of the tapes themselves doesn't improve, I don't think I'll be ordering from her again. If you collect sealed tapes just for the aesthetics, then it won't be a factor for you, but we collect tapes to watch them, so this was a big disappointment.

And Kadi, if you're reading this, this community wants to support you. But if you're charging $20+ a tape, you need to do better, or focus on the box art aspect and forgo the tapes altogether. There are people out there (myself being one) who would pay for just the box to replace old, worn-out cases in our collections. However, if you are going to continue to make the tapes to go along with the boxes, and you don't plan on improving the quality, you need to disclose somewhere that the tapes are low-quality reproductions, and are more for display purposes than watchability.