A Houston man who bought an independent video store is now sitting on around 3,000 pornographic DVDs that he has no clue how to get rid of. The regular stock of mainstream films were easy enough to move, but the porn has been trickier.

So, he did what anyone with thousands of hours of unwanted pornography would do. He went on Craigslist to post a bartering offer.

(No, the Texican wasn’t trolling CL for porn. He just likes to check in on the bartering page now and then.)

“I will consider any trade offers for a case or more,” writes the listee. “If you are in the service industry I will also consider, but tell me what it is you do in the first email.”

“I am open to nearly any trade offers with the exception of live animals,” he notes.

I contacted the man via email, and he sounded leery of having his business thrown about for the world to see — especially related to porn — but as long as I promised to keep his name and company out of it, he agreed to talk.

The DVDs are each six hours long, without story lines, he says. Each case has 100 DVDs inside, and he’s looking at 30 cases. That’s 3,000 unwanted, unloved, porno DVDs just taking up space in a storage unit. He won’t divulge what genre the DVDs are. I guess that’s part of the magic of bartering for porn on Craigslist.

He’s not interested in cash for the porn, only in trading something for the porn. He’s already received a number of emails inquiring about the stash of blue movies. One person offered up a pet zebra.

“I was just offered a Patriot Missile nose cone. As it is plastic I am sure it is some kind of model or kit,” he writes. He pictures a kid in a basement building a rocket, deciding to stock up on porn, rather than prepping for federal charges.