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re: What do you remember about going to the movie rental store?
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:20 am to boxcarbarney
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:20 am to boxcarbarney
My best friend invited me over for his birthday and his mom rented a whole SNES for the weekend. I stayed both nights and we played MARIO world and madden all night
Thought I'd died and gone to heaven
Thought I'd died and gone to heaven
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Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:22 am to boxcarbarney
The smell.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:24 am to boxcarbarney
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We had a lesbian couple who would make baked goods from scratch as a hobby. They never paid for rentals as long as they brought me brownies. And if you were a cop, you got free rentals. And I would tell them that if they ever wanted to hang out in the store in uniform, I would give them a free rental and a coke. We rarely had problems with shoplifters. And if I ever had to call 911, half of the JP police department would show up to make sure we were ok.
You worked in a cooler Blockbuster than me. Management was always all over our shite to get every dime we could out of people. No way we could give out free rentals often. Occassionally the decent managers would give us some of those free rental cards to hook certain people up, but we had to keep that shite quiet. They were even all over our arse about our free rentals making sure we weren't getting them for friends/etc.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 9:24 am
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:32 am to Dam Guide
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You worked in a cooler Blockbuster than me. Management was always all over our shite to get every dime we could out of people. No way we could give out free rentals often. Occassionally the decent managers would give us some of those free rental cards to hook certain people up, but we had to keep that shite quiet. They were even all over our arse about our free rentals making sure we weren't getting them for friends/etc
I was an assistant manager there. But we would use the coupon code from the "guaranteed in stock or its free" program. Virtually untraceable.
Back before I figured out that giving cops free shite made them hang out at your store, we had a serial shoplifter we call the CD Bandit. This was back in Blockbuster Video also sold music. This guy would walk into the store once a month with a big duffle bag and just dump a couple of hundred CDs into in and nonchalantly walk out the door. He gave zero fricks, and store policy was to not confront shoplifters, so we would just wish him a nice day as he strolled out the door.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 9:36 am
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:39 am to dallastiger55
Early memories:
Actually renting a VHS player from the rental place along with my tapes.
The guy at the rental store swearing that their catalog contained every movie ever made.
Good memories:
Coming home Friday night with a couple of pizza boxes with VHS tapes on top, and seeing my kids' faces when we got the movies we'd wanted.
Bad memories:
The asswipe at Blockbuster who would give out spoilers as he was ringing up your rentals.
The asswipe at Blockbuster who accused me of circumventing their security system and placing a return directly on the shelf (I got a notice that I had an unreturned tape. When I went to the store, the tape was back on the shelf (it was on old movie with only one copy). When I showed it to the cashier and told him that they had put the movie back on the shelf in the wrong section, he told me (in front of a line of people), "If it's on the shelf, that means that two people handled the tape without checking it in, and that just doesn't happen. I won't charge you, but I know that you just brought that tape in and put it on the shelf." The manager didn't give a shite about my complaint, neither did their corporate office.
And finally (sorry to the Blockbuster people in here), when the Blockbuster employees would come into the restaurant/bar I was managing after they closed their stores, they were the worst fricking customers imaginable. They treated our staff like shite. Which was fricking ridiculous for people that worked in the service industry and should've known better. Eventually we just told them our kitchen was closed so they'd stop coming.
Actually renting a VHS player from the rental place along with my tapes.
The guy at the rental store swearing that their catalog contained every movie ever made.
Good memories:
Coming home Friday night with a couple of pizza boxes with VHS tapes on top, and seeing my kids' faces when we got the movies we'd wanted.
Bad memories:
The asswipe at Blockbuster who would give out spoilers as he was ringing up your rentals.
The asswipe at Blockbuster who accused me of circumventing their security system and placing a return directly on the shelf (I got a notice that I had an unreturned tape. When I went to the store, the tape was back on the shelf (it was on old movie with only one copy). When I showed it to the cashier and told him that they had put the movie back on the shelf in the wrong section, he told me (in front of a line of people), "If it's on the shelf, that means that two people handled the tape without checking it in, and that just doesn't happen. I won't charge you, but I know that you just brought that tape in and put it on the shelf." The manager didn't give a shite about my complaint, neither did their corporate office.
And finally (sorry to the Blockbuster people in here), when the Blockbuster employees would come into the restaurant/bar I was managing after they closed their stores, they were the worst fricking customers imaginable. They treated our staff like shite. Which was fricking ridiculous for people that worked in the service industry and should've known better. Eventually we just told them our kitchen was closed so they'd stop coming.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:39 am to KarlMalonesFlipPhone
I remember the one video store in my town that was locally owned, not a Movie Gallery or Blockbuster, had an abnormal collection of porn in the back. I mean two full rooms of the shite. They stopped getting new movies after a certain point. That's probably the reason we eventually got a Movie Gallery. Wore that place out too.
Still, I'd always go back and laugh at the names as a kid, not knowing a damn thing, then going to school saying Sleazy Cockhounds 2 out loud and laughing my arse off.
Still, I'd always go back and laugh at the names as a kid, not knowing a damn thing, then going to school saying Sleazy Cockhounds 2 out loud and laughing my arse off.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:39 am to dallastiger55
I remember going and finding the tape I wanted was already rented 
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:58 am to Fewer Kilometers
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I was an assistant manager there. But we would use the coupon code from the "guaranteed in stock or its free" program. Virtually untraceable.
Ah, we didn't have that program when I was there.
quote:
The asswipe at Blockbuster who accused me of circumventing their security system and placing a return directly on the shelf (I got a notice that I had an unreturned tape. When I went to the store, the tape was back on the shelf (it was on old movie with only one copy). When I showed it to the cashier and told him that they had put the movie back on the shelf in the wrong section, he told me (in front of a line of people), "If it's on the shelf, that means that two people handled the tape without checking it in, and that just doesn't happen. I won't charge you, but I know that you just brought that tape in and put it on the shelf." The manager didn't give a shite about my complaint, neither did their corporate office.
This happened extremely rarely. If there was a tape tracked back to the shelf, I would wipe fees. The late fee thing with a clear check in time happened all the damn time. It got old that so many people lied about returning tapes on time.
We had a good relationship with our restaurant neighbors. They would hook us up on lunch. We didn't treat fellow low wage people like shite in their business though.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:15 am to Dam Guide
My rotation:
The Great Outdoors
TMNT: The Movie
Necessary Roughness
Over and Over
The Great Outdoors
TMNT: The Movie
Necessary Roughness
Over and Over
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:17 am to dallastiger55
I'll always remember purposely getting in the nerdy guy's line rather than the hot chick's line because I didn't want her to think I was a creep for renting Poison Ivy 2 for the 34th time.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:37 am to dallastiger55
Truly one of the best childhood nostalgia trips. All of us can remember the smell and layout of our individual movie stores. Used to love going and getting a N64 game and a movie with my dad and siblings
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:40 am to dallastiger55
I remember the TVs that would be playing the new releases and the bagged popcorn that they sold packaged popcorn upfront
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:43 am to dallastiger55
Anyone remember the first movie they rented?
Should this be a spinoff thread?
Should this be a spinoff thread?
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:46 am to dallastiger55
I remember always being able to find something I wanted to watch. Now, I sit and scroll Netflix and Amazon for ten minutes and give up because nothing appeals to me.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:59 am to Mo Jeaux
Just read the whole thread. Grinned ear to ear for the entirety. Such great memories
I hope we see a movie store revival for our generation
I hope we see a movie store revival for our generation
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:02 am to BluesDriver
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Pretty much just a 8-bit Nintendo, SNES or Genesis game every Friday night.
Same. There was nothing as thrilling as running to the game aisle and seeing the case for a game you've been dying to play jutting out a little bit.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:03 am to dallastiger55
I remember when Top Gun was first released, Major Video on Veterans Blvd in Metairie had every single shelf from floor to ceiling stacked with VHS copies of the movie. And there was a line of people waiting to buy it.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:03 am to MorbidTheClown
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Anyone remember the first movie they rented?
Either John Carpenter's The Thing, Spinal Tap, or Time Rider.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:07 am to Fewer Kilometers
I'm kind of embarrassed to say my first ever rental was Footloose.
Followed that up with Empire Strikes Back.
Followed that up with Empire Strikes Back.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 11:09 am
Posted on 5/1/17 at 11:17 am to MorbidTheClown
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I'm kind of embarrassed to say my first ever rental was Footloose.
Why? Footloose was awesome.
First one I remember renting was Seems Like Old Times.
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