I thought that Blockbuster was definitely going to go the way of all flesh and then I see a Blockbuster machine at the local food store.
I tell ya, isn’t there any way that this ripoff company will finally go down and be gone from the world, with all of the extra money it got from late fees that weren’t late, who wants to give them any business anyway?
I guess some things never die and Blockbuster is going to be one of them.
Yep, I hate those punks. Since the 90s. Maybe even the 80s.
“You can have the tape for 3 days for $2.89.” The evening you rent it, the next day, and the next evening, when it was due to be returned. The morning after that, you got charged a full ‘3 day’ charge again.
I was glad to hear that they were having rough times. then I saw one of their boxes at a food store. I thought that my original estimate of their crappiness had been exaggerated, so, I gave them a try. The stupid box was unnegotiable. If anybody ever gets a dvd out of one, it will be a surprise to me.
Take heart with me. Netflix and Redbox will knock them out of the park.
Best wishes,
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I hope you are right, but like I said, I thought they’d a been out of business by now.
This is their last gasp. They do have one advantage - a bunch of 28 day exclusive studio “windows” from when they were on top. But I can see them failing and NetFlix picking up their corpse up cheap and being able to offer those same titles on their far more profitable streaming service.
The question is when should one go and rent a bunch of movies in the hopes that they close shop while they’re in your possession?
Those Blockbuster Express machine are owned by a separate company. They’re Blockbuster in name only. They even made sure to put out press releases and such when Blockbuster declared bankruptcy to let everyone know that it didn’t affect them. They have that same “28 days” waiting period that Redbox and Netflix have.
The Blockbuster monniker isn’t exactly a marketing coup. Everybody everywhere hates Blockbuster.
They were stupid to use Blockbuster, IMO. What marketing whiz 101 decided on that one??? Should fire the bastard. Any other name would have been an improvement on Blockbuster, for chrissakes.
It was a partnership. Blockbuster wanted to get into Redbox’s business. Now it’s owned by NCR. But anyone who avoids the kiosks because of the name is pretty dumb. They are virtually identical to Redbox.
National Cash Register needs to sell movies in a kiosk? What happened to the good ole days of making cash registers? A losing business with all that plastic?
Oh well, time is change.
People still aren’t going to be attracted to anything with Blockbuster on it. It’s a stupid, losing proposition for a name, regardless of who really owns it. Might as well call it Mr. Hitler’s Movies!!!
It’s the association that matters, not who REALLY owns it…BB is still a stupid idea.
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Those Blockbuster Express machine are owned by a separate company. They’re Blockbuster in name only. They even made sure to put out press releases and such when Blockbuster declared bankruptcy to let everyone know that it didn’t affect them. They have that same “28 days” waiting period that Redbox and Netflix have.
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My mistake. I had conflated the boxes with Blockbastard’s also-doomed streaming.
“Mangled Baby Ducks” was already taken.
I hate to admit it, but I rather like Blockbuster Online. It doesn’t have quite the selection that Netflix does, but the ability to go to the storefront with a mail-in DVD and exchange it for a new rental is pretty awesome if you have a Blockbuster in your town.
I don’t stream movies to my computer, so I can’t comment on gaffa’s input there.