Blockbuster, first you advertize no late fees then you reneg…Fuck you.
I rent from you 5 times a year, you never have enough movies to go around and I am constently disappointed when I leave your store. I rent a shitty movie about 3 months ago, I completely forget to bring it back and you give me a courtesy call after 8 days late that I should bring it to you. Fine I do and thats that, I’ll pay the late fee when I rent again in another 3 months.
NOW HERE’S THE KICKER - I recieve a collection notice from your smarmy lawyer saying Ihave been put inot collections for owing you a late fee of $16.37 cents. YOU FUCKED WITH MY CREDIT FOR A GOD DAMN LATE FEE!!! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING???
I have never, ever heard of this in my life! Is this even fucking legal? Oh and you are god damn right I am protesting this, I may even bring it to my attorney.
FUCK YOU BLOCKBUSTER, I AM TAKING ON A PERSONAL CRUSADE AGAINST YOUR ILK! I will tell everyone I meet never, ever to rent another movie from you, And furthermore, I don’t give a shit netflix is harming your business.
I don’t suppose it will help any, but you’ve not been reported to a credit agency.
“Credit Protection Agency” (I think that was it) is simply another letterhead belonging to Blockbuster. It’s a scare tactic. 98% of the time, it works, as you can imagine.
When you signed up, you signed a paper saying this would happen if you didn’t pay your fees within 90 days. Either charged to a current credit card on file (and it’s your responsibility to keep a valid one with a good expiration date in their records) or sent to “collections”. Maybe you should read what you sign before you sign it.
Let’s see, you bring a movie back late, deliberately don’t pay the fee, and are now mad that they sent it to collections.
You owe them money, why do you think it’s OK to make them wait indefinitely for you to pay up? Pay them the money you owe, and quit being a baby about it.
Paying a debt is no biggy - usually with Blockbuster I pay it when I rent again…not through the forced hand of a collection notice. I’m not in the habit of getting collection notices…Thats why I’m so heated.
Understandable. But $16.37 or $5000.37, its still a valid debt and should be treated the same way. I had a collection item one time for like 25.00 that I didn’t even know that I owed anyone, that really sucked.
You have to see it from their side, I have no doubt that people regularly rack up fees and just never go back to the store again. Nobody is ever forced to go there, so there’s no guarantee that you will be back to pay.
I know that’s how I normally end up paying late fees… and it’s been almost a year since I’ve rented one. I wouldn’t be overly surprised to have to pay 5$ in late fees next time. I would be surprised to get a legal notice over it, fake or not.
Nope. It is a “legitimate” agency.
Lots of companies/people do this nowadays. They “sell” their debt to someone else, and that someone else pays them the fee.
So far, only the debtor and the “debtee” have profited from this, as the “bounty hunters” usually resort to the above scare tactics, and the debtors ignore them.
This is just a WAG, on my part, but I would bet real money that it is correct…at least more correct than it is a “letterhead” from Blockbuster.
Okay, would you like to cite your source? Mine is being a manager at Blockbuster Video for 7 years.
Yes, there are lots of debt brokers. CPA isn’t one of them, unless things have drastically changed in the last few years since I left.
I’m sorry, I see now that it was a WAG on your part. I didn’t mean to get snarky, it’s just that this (more my first post than this one) is what I ached to say to customers for 7 years and couldn’t.
I sympathize, I really do. I sympathize with it more now, in the days of direct-to-purchase price DVDs. I sympathized less when it would cost my store $100 out of my budget to replace just one videotape someone never brought back, or when what they effectively stole was my one copy of The Little Mermaid which had been on moratorium for 10 years and couldn’t be replaced no matter what the cost, or a hot new title that my store had guaranteed in stock, so when it wasn’t in, I was not only losing that rental money every two days, but I was actually issuing free rental coupons to those people who wanted to give me money for it, but couldn’t because it was in your glovebox, or when I looked at the total on the sheet of 90 days + unpaid debt and the figure was in the 5 digits. Yeah, your $17 isn’t much. But some people racked up amazingly huge debts, and multiply it by 400 bad debt customers, and my district manager is breathing down my neck for a very good reason.
Sorry. But defending the bastards who sucked my life away for seven years and paid me less than $10 a hour at the end of it makes me cranky.
Dude, if it makes you feel any better, they once did the same thing to me for $5.00.
They told me when I went in to pay it that it’s beyond their control, any outstanding amount goes directly to their collection agency. They also advised that it’s better to come in and pay them than send the fee to the collection agency, as Blockbuster might never see it and another notice might go out. :rolleyes:
Mine is being “hounded” by a collection agency since 2003 for a lousy hundred bucks. The company I “owe” it to doesn’t give a shit, but the CA still sends me notices. I ignore them, and life goes on. ARE YOU SATISFIED THAT I EMBARASSED MYSELF HERE ADMITTING I AM A DEADBEAT?!
No problem…as I said I ignore the collection agencies as they are just “scare tactics” anyway :o
But that is JIME----please don’t do as I do just because I got away with it!!!
Seriously, I paid back the company that [b}I REALLY OWED THE MONEY TO!**
The credit agency still “threatens” me with “bad credit”, “can’t buy a house”, yadda yadda yadda,
Not only did I pay them back, but I donated items to their lending library.
<sigh>
I guess no good deed goes unpunished.
Perhaps you can clear up something for me. I have heard that Blockbuster actually censors what it considers “objectionable material” in the movies it rents, regardless of what the customers think. Is this true? Roger Ebert, among others, says it is.
ARE YOU SATISFIED THAT I EMBARASSED MYSELF HERE ADMITTING I AM A DEADBEAT?!