What do the ratings mean in parenthesis?
What are your trading rules?
Do you trade online or via snail mail?
Do you trade VHS?
Do you trade cassettes?

What do the ratings mean in parenthesis?

Video ratings

5 - Flawless video
4 - Great video, almost perfect
3 - Average video with static or a few small skips
2 - Bad video with skips in the video
1 - Poor video, unwatchable

Cassette and CD ratings

5 - Flawless audio
4 - Great audio, almost perfect
3 - Good audio with maybe a few small skips
2 - Bad audio with more frequent skips
1 - Poor audio, hard to understand

The first number is video and the second is audio.

Do you trade online or via snail mail?

I do both, but I do not regularly maintain an FTP site for storing large files. I do not have open FTP access for this server either. I have no problem with snail mail trades as I do them regularly.

Do you trade VHS?

Anything that you see in the DVD section can be converted to VHS. Refer to the VIDEO TRADE RULES above for VHS trading rules. I would only accept VHS in a trade for something very rare that I cannot get anywhere else.

Do you trade cassettes?

Not any more. I have no interest in audio cassettes any longer. I do not even list anything that I still have on cassette. Either I have converted them all or I will be converting them soon.