Oh yea we definitely had the regular characters at the place. My family still laughs to this day at holiday lunches and dinners about the people that would come in the store.

I was the opposite on late fees. If you were cool about it, I didnt charge you at all. If you open up with some bs about the tape being late, its 50/50 you getting charged.

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Posted by blueboy

Member since Apr 2006

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Posted on 7/14/21 at 5:08 pm to ThuperThumpin

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This is why I still get the red envelopes from Netflix. A lot of what I watch is unavailable on streaming services or its a la carte pricing.

Yeah, I never really wanted to mess with it either. Eventually, I think they'll have the memory capacity to stream everything they have, but they still only have a certain percentage of movies because of studio contracts.

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Posted by molsusports

Member since Jul 2004

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Posted on 7/14/21 at 5:50 pm to Fewer Kilometers

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I'm sure that Blockbuster had some good people working there, but I have too many horror stories to be nostalgic for that place.

From being accused of sneaking a tape back onto the shelf, to being told ten minutes till closing that I couldn't rent a tape because my car was parked crooked in their empty parking lot, to the a-hole clerk who would give spoilers, I don't miss it.

That, and the restaurant I managed stayed open past their store hours, and the Blockbuster staff was notorious for treating our servers like shite.

If it wasn't the fact that they were the only store with the new releases that my kids wanted, I'd have gotten all of my movies from the mom & pops.

All of this. I get it if you worked there and had the opposite problem with a-hole customers instead of a-hole employees and managers.

But Blockbuster created Netflix because of their bullshite business model. The Netflix advertising memes about no late fees were an enormous part of the Netflix success because of the emphasis Blockbuster put on generating revenue via late fees as a core part of their business model.

I loved walking around video stores and looking at movie covers etc but I was done with the lying employees and their business of stealing money from the customer by the late 90s.

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