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re: Blockbuster closing all stores and distribution centers
Posted on 11/6/13 at 2:46 pm to TigerattheU
Posted on 11/6/13 at 2:46 pm to TigerattheU
One of the best memories of my father was when Blockbuster reported his $5 late fee to the credit bureaus.
He saw it as a life lesson. had me get on the phone as he called Blockbuster and chewed them out in order to get the late fee removed from his credit report.
Learned a few words that day. Also learned alot about protecting your credit.
He saw it as a life lesson. had me get on the phone as he called Blockbuster and chewed them out in order to get the late fee removed from his credit report.
Learned a few words that day. Also learned alot about protecting your credit.
This post was edited on 11/6/13 at 2:46 pm
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Posted on 11/6/13 at 2:58 pm to TigerMyth36
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Not entirely true. They were so loaded with debt there isn't much they could have done. I'm not sure anyone could have saved them once it was apparent Netflix and Streaming were taking off.
What I'm saying is that they could've realized that streaming/dollar kiosks were the wave of the future and gotten into that early on. Instead of Redbox kiosks everywhere, there would be BB dollar kiosks. shite, they already had content to fill them with since they had stores everywhere.
They really dropped the ball and fought it for YEARS, and then finally when they realized how stupid they were, and started doing BB boxes of their own, it was too late.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 2:59 pm to Dr RC
Posted on 11/6/13 at 3:04 pm to Dr RC
Posted on 11/6/13 at 3:06 pm to Tactical1
Good riddance. They were the Grim Reaper to real video stores.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 3:11 pm to JombieZombie
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Good riddance. They were the Grim Reaper to real video stores.
I suspect similar sentiments will be expressed in the future, when the global retail entity "Wal-Mart" (known colloquially as "The Beast" to mom and pop retail stores over the past 50 years), passes softly in the dark night.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 3:11 pm to DirklasDaDirk
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I believe there is still one open in Lafayette
I remember when Laffy had around 6-7 stores.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 3:33 pm to Turbeauxdog
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Went in once assuming redbox had forced them to lower their price on DVD rentals.
Nope $4+
This is stupid.
But I actually went to blockbuster maybe like 5 or 6 years ago because I wanted some movie that wasn't in Redbox because it was a couple years old. Blockbuster had it...but I paid about $5 for it.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 3:47 pm to Scruffy
Scruffy, you in da Berry??
Posted on 11/6/13 at 4:39 pm to Queen
I liked working there about a decade ago when I was first starting college - but when I got there was when the "No Late Fees" bullshite started and could see the damage it was doing to their customer base. People would show up on Tuesday morning and rent out all of the new releases for $10 and keep them for weeks at a time, meanwhile we'd be out of stock for weeks at a time including the weekends which is the busiest of the rental turnarounds. Was frickin' stupid to do that and seriously cost the company. I worked at the store in Covington and they had a loyal customer base up until 2006, then corporate decided that we had to push rewards, movie pass, and other upsells on all the customers - and they didn't come back.
Can't blame them. Blockbuster has nobody to blame but themselves for this. Something we can tell the next generation - we used to have to go to a store to rent movies.
Can't blame them. Blockbuster has nobody to blame but themselves for this. Something we can tell the next generation - we used to have to go to a store to rent movies.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 4:52 pm to JombieZombie
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Good riddance. They were the Grim Reaper to real video stores
No that was Major Video
Posted on 11/6/13 at 4:59 pm to Ace Midnight
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I suspect similar sentiments will be expressed in the future, when the global retail entity "Wal-Mart" (known colloquially as "The Beast" to mom and pop retail stores over the past 50 years), passes softly in the dark night.
You're prob being sarcastic but Walmart has much, much, much smarter people at its top compared to BB
Posted on 11/6/13 at 5:06 pm to Turbeauxdog
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There is one in the heights
haha frick that store.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 5:06 pm to Dr RC
This kind of makes me sad in a way. Not for Blockbuster. But it's like the last vestiges of what was, for a brief time, a slice of life - a bit of Americana. I still remember going to the old mom and pop stores to get a movie or two for the weekend. First as a young couple and then when the kids were growing up.
Of course there was the hit movies of the moment - but you could also find some older or quirky or not big mainstream movies by browsing. Anime, old sports movies, old war movies, etc. That's one thing I don't think Redbox does.
I know that stuff is probably all available on Netflix. But I'm kind of a dinosaur and never got around to hooking up to the net to get movies. Guess I'm going to have to give in to that one of these days.
Of course there was the hit movies of the moment - but you could also find some older or quirky or not big mainstream movies by browsing. Anime, old sports movies, old war movies, etc. That's one thing I don't think Redbox does.
I know that stuff is probably all available on Netflix. But I'm kind of a dinosaur and never got around to hooking up to the net to get movies. Guess I'm going to have to give in to that one of these days.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 5:06 pm to Methuselah
posted this in the OT thread:
I loved blockbuster so much as a kid
getting picked up from school on friday to have my mom ask me "how would you like to swing by blockbuster on the way home??!" walking through the door and smelling that distinct store smell, checking the recent returns, then pick out 3-4 tapes, often Teen Wolf or Ghostbusters or Rocky 4 and maybe a Sega game.
Then ordering Pizza Hut pan pizza for dinner.
god damn, it's kinda sad seeing it go away
I loved blockbuster so much as a kid
getting picked up from school on friday to have my mom ask me "how would you like to swing by blockbuster on the way home??!" walking through the door and smelling that distinct store smell, checking the recent returns, then pick out 3-4 tapes, often Teen Wolf or Ghostbusters or Rocky 4 and maybe a Sega game.
Then ordering Pizza Hut pan pizza for dinner.
god damn, it's kinda sad seeing it go away
Posted on 11/6/13 at 5:13 pm to cjared036
Where is the closest blockbuster that is still open near Baton Rouge?
If you can go there when they are going got of business and selling everything off you can get awesome deals. I remember getting brand new blurays for like $3-7 each.
If you can go there when they are going got of business and selling everything off you can get awesome deals. I remember getting brand new blurays for like $3-7 each.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 6:26 pm to cjared036
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One of the best memories of my father was when Blockbuster reported his $5 late fee to the credit bureaus.
They charged three to my credit report while I was in college. Was there ever a more malignant corporation toward its own customer base?
If Blockbuster were a human corpse, I would piss on it while laughing.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 6:28 pm to Dr RC
Good. Next to Comcast, that company has fricked me over more times than any other. They deserve it. frick em.
Posted on 11/6/13 at 6:33 pm to Zantrix
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I liked working there about a decade ago when I was first starting college - but when I got there was when the "No Late Fees" bullshite started and could see the damage it was doing to their customer base. People would show up on Tuesday morning and rent out all of the new releases for $10 and keep them for weeks at a time, meanwhile we'd be out of stock for weeks at a time including the weekends which is the busiest of the rental turnarounds. Was frickin' stupid to do that and seriously cost the company. I worked at the store in Covington and they had a loyal customer base up until 2006, then corporate decided that we had to push rewards, movie pass, and other upsells on all the customers - and they didn't come back.
You really think stopping late fees destroyed the company, and not Netflex, Redbox, and generally treating their customers like shite?
Posted on 11/6/13 at 6:41 pm to Dr RC
I remember when we would go rent a movie they would deny us and say we owned them $100+ in late fees. Unbeknownst to us, of course. Wtf? We could've just bought 5 copies of that movie instead.
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