The manpower? An Amazon transaction takes like 90 seconds.
It’s not “chipola.” Anyone from me to your favorite video store to netflix can rent out that movie as well as any other without restrictions of any kind.
Tell those slacker assholes behind the counter to get off their butts and order the DVD for you. Maybe you should ask them what the issue so you can find a real problem, as in one that actually exists, for your rant.
I seem to remember us doing a pretty thorough discussion about the “Blockbuster exclusive” thing not too long ago, but I can’t find it. Maybe somebody else can dig it up.
Possibly this thread from November?
Yeah, it sucks if you hate Blockbuster, but as others have said, getting the film isn’t difficult. I think your overall perception, and correct me if I’m wrong, is that you’re fearful that Blockbuster will stomp out your little mom and pop shop. That’s cool. But, if you’re overall concern is seeing movies, like mine, then what loyalty do you owe mom and pop? Especially since I can rent movies much cheaper and much faster through Netflix or Blockbuster express (or whatever it is I signed up for) – seriously, I get three movies a month, 1 free rental and 1 game rental coupon, and I can trade movies in at the store, too, for like 21.99 (I’ll go check if someone thinks I’m wrong). That’s what…8 rentals for $22? That’s less than $3 a rental, and no late fees (though I believe there is a restocking fee). If I had more time, I would rent more. I even give time to stuff I wouldn’t rent if I had to pay full price, so a bunch of these indy and straight-to-video people get some benefit, too. Additionally, I now I feel I have to be careful about what I rent because I don’t want to reward crap and don’t want to give someone any extra incentive to produce more movies or ruin any more game titles (I’m looking at you Uwe Boll).
So what exactly does BlockBuster get out of the deal if Netflix has the film too? How is the deal worth a cent to BlockBuster?
Yes, the manpower. They don’t have the manpower to follow every single new release and find out if the distribution company is going to send it to them just like they’ve sent movies to them for the last 30 years.
I’m sure they don’t have the manpower (or expertise) to re-write the purchasing software to include getting movies from Amazon.
Do you run a business? Do you keep books? Do you have automated shipping and receiving, and software that tracks that? Do you have any basis for what you’re suggesting?
You are full of fucking shit and retardation.
Yes, a problem exists for the rant. Blockbuster struck an exclusivity deal with the Weinsteins, and now my video store can’t get movies through the channels they’ve used for 30 years.
Blockbuster couldn’t compete on price.
They couldn’t compete on expertise of the staff.
They couldn’t compete on lay-out of the store.
What they were able to do is use their scale to the detriment of consumers. They changed the rules of the game that had been in place for 30 years when they couldn’t gain a competitive advantage under the current system. If you bought your retard juice at the CVS down the block, and Wal*Mart (who sells 10 times as much retard juice as CVS) told the retard juice makers that they were going to stop carrying retard juice if the retard juice makers continued to sell to CVS, you’d be pissed off. And rightfully so.
Netflix has been well know to everyone on earth for years. I’ve considered it, and rejected it.
The main reason being that I actually ENJOY picking out what movie I’m going to be watching that evening. I walk my dog to the video store. I shoot the shit with the clerks. I see my neighbors there.
But, I’m not married to them. What will get me to stop going to Mom & Pop is when PPV has more titles. I’m not keeping them in business for the sake of maintaining “Ye Olde Movie Shoppe” like grandma and grandpa used to visit. They are the best video store around, and they’re powerless to stop the machinations of billion dollar corporations working in cahoots to put them out of business.
It’s an attempt to make a person like ME who wants to rent a Weinstein video go to blockbuster instead of the place I always go to.
If I smoked dope, I’d bet Enchanted would be even greater when on it.
Manpower? It takes 5 minutes to surf through the new releases lists at Amazon every week. Everything below page six on any given week is usually the cheap, bargain basement crap that no one would want anyone. It takes too much manpower to look at six web pages once a week?
Does your mom and pop video store? It’s very possible a small video store handpicks many of the titles they order with only major, sure thing releases on a standing order plan.
Welcome to 20 years ago. Blockbuster has been doing this “Blockbuster Exclusive” thing for years. In fact, they funded the completion of The Boondock Saints because BB execs wanted to make it a Blockbuster exclusive.
The trigger for that movie’s cult classic status is Blockbuster.
Insults don’t belong in any forum outside the Pit, Trunk, so knock it off. You’ve been warned for this behavior before, so this isn’t news to you; if you can’t contribute to Cafe Society discussions without resorting to insults, then you might as well stay out of them.
Lots of companies brag about their exclusivity deals. It used to be that you could have Showtime or HBO and see all the same movies, but then each one started pursuing exclusive deals. Visa has all those wonderful places you can go (restaurants, the Olympics), but better take your Visa, because they don’t take American Express.
Which pisses me off, really. Why would a business turn away customers with other cards unless Visa was paying them to do it. And nothing about this improves the experience of Visa cardholders, it just screws over the people who aren’t. And Visa pays money to go on TV and brag about it.
The stores don’t take AmEx because it costs them more then Visa/MasterCard. It’s not that Visa is paying them to not take AmEx, they’re highlighting the fact that companies don’t take AmEx because it’s not to their advantage.
There is no way that they’ve been doing business exactly the same way for three decades. I’m sure that they didn’t use the Internet or even computers in 1978. They probably didn’t use fax machines or global overnight shipping companies either. I could go on. This is yet another change in the business world that they’ll have to manage in order to maintain their apparent success.
You’re correct but luckily it isn’t necessary to do so.
I don’t currently run a business but I did for two years. I was incorporated as an engineering consultant. I used Quickbooks to manage the corporate finances and did all of my own shipping and receiving using FedEx, DHL, UPS and the USPO. Obviously the volumes of the stuff that I shipped and received wasn’t at the level of theirs but I did know the UPS and FedEx guys by name.
This analogy doesn’t apply. CVS is still free to sell retard juice they just have to purchase it in a different manner. As long as I can still get retard juice, I wouldn’t care if they had to spend a few extra minutes a week to get it.
In any event, I always get my retard juice at the local Farmer’s Market where it’s more fresh but that’s neither here or there.
Yes, but every reason you’ve given for rejecting Netflix until now was false. You seemingly had no idea about how there queue system worked for example.
Good for you. Now get the clerk to order the movie that you want.