The Gradual Fall of Blockbuster

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Beastman1975:
lol blockbuster might be temporarily saved Netflix apparently signed a deal with quite a few major studios to delay new releases by about one month before you can stream them , i guess its to help flagging dvd sales and rentals lol

Mick Dundee:

--- Quote from: Beastman1975 on April 14, 2010, 04:35:52 PM ---lol blockbuster might be temporarily saved Netflix apparently signed a deal with quite a few major studios to delay new releases by about one month before you can stream them , i guess its to help flagging dvd sales and rentals lol

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On Warner Bros. movies Netflix has a release date roughly 1 month later than the actual DVD release date... to promote more sales of the DVD/Blu-Ray discs. Blockbuster pays extra royalties to be able to rent them on release day

(just read that Fox and Universal are in the same boat as Warner Brothers with Netflix)

LordXaero:
It's funny, out of all the message boards I go to, I would least expect a Blockbuster topic to appear here.

I work for one of the Blockbusters in my area. Not a bad place to work, if the people are cool, of course. In my case, I love my co workers. Only down side, is the pay.

I find it funny that people bash Blockbuster for their late fees, or as what they are called now, Additional Daily Rates, or just bash Blockbuster in general.

In all honesty, it's simple. You pay $5.45 (at least in my area) for a rental, that is good for five days. It's due back on the 5th day, before store close. AFTER that, its an additional dollar a day, for any days you wish to keep it, hence the name: Additional Daily Rate. That is 120 hours to watch a movie. A movie, on average is an hour, or two long. If you cannot find two hours out of that 120 that you are given, you do not need to be renting movies to begin with. Yet people are late all the time, and then they complain that they can't deal with it, and that they will be going to Netflix, or Redbox. It's just that they are irresponsible people who can't return things in on time.

One customer came up to me, and had the nerve to say "I don't even know why I'm here, I have Netflix." And I thought to myself, I know why you're here, its because you want your movie now, rather than having to wait. And people always forget that, Blockbuster has the SAME things as Netflix and Redbox. Blockbuster Online lets you stream movies, or have them delivered to you. AND you can return your mailers, for movies in the store. Blockbuster also has, what we like to call, Blueboxes. They are just like Redbox Kiosks.

Another thing that Blockbuster has is Direct Access. Which means, if you can't find what you're looking for in the store, we can have it shipped to you. Keep it for five days, then return it.

I'm a formal Netflix user, and I'm in no way defending Blockbuster, but its a shame that they are falling due to these competitors, when in reality, Blockbuster offers more; people just fail to see it.

I sure will miss seeing the stores on each corner, but I have to say, since working at my location since early September 2009, we get pretty damn busy for a company most see as going out of business.

the7k:
Last time I used Blockbuster to rent something was Heavenly Sword when it came out. That's at least two years ago.

While I certainly prefer Blockbuster over subscribing to a service like Netflix and/or Gamefly (I just don't rent enough games or movies to warrant a monthly fee - I tend to collect rather than consume and discard), it's place in the world is definitely shrinking.

So long as internet access isn't available to everyone, Blockbuster will still have it's niche. It's just not a big enough niche to justify all the thousands of locations they have.

Mick Dundee:
Personally the rental fees are a bit steep for me, so i usually buy movies outright. However i do take advantage of Blockbusters used inventory frequently. 3 movies roughly a month old... 20 bucks. I don't see any reason for me not to go to Blockbuster once and a while.

I even find used games fairly cheap there.

Brutal legend $8
Valkyrie Profile and a pokemon DS game for a buy one get one deal of 6.99 total

My buddy got Crackdown and another game for the same buy one get one at 9.99

As long as they keep selling used I will keep buying

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