Comments on: Blockbuster Bankruptcy Rumors Abound, Stock Plunges

By: moviecrazy

moviecrazy — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:08:35 +0000

If you don’t know what you’re talking about you should really just keep your mouth shut. You ALWAYS have until the next day at 9 pm to return your movie. Learn what you’re talking about before posting stuff that makes you look like and idiot!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:23:16 +0000

Not for a one-day rental. You always have until 9PM the next day no matter what time you rented it the previous day.

I am taking it on faith that you are right about the exact time extra charge thing for multi-day rentals and not completely out to lunch. I’ve never personally run into that (I seldom keep the DVDs more than a day) and I’ve never heard anyone complain about it before.

By: the kliq

the kliq — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:18:31 +0000

Hopefully the tyrant CEOs will go bankrupt. That’d be the best thing to happen since sliced bread, not giving their employees raises on over a year and a half. They only thing that sucks about redbox is a credit card is REQUIRED, and they charge you per day to the minute, so if you rent it 5:01pm and return it 5:02pm the next day, you’re charged for another day

By: starman15317

starman15317 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:26:07 +0000

I like BB myself. I subscribe to Blockbuster Online and they do good service. Plus there is a great selection in my blockbuster, although i rent a lot of movies at my library. Of corse, I rent new movies from redbox!

By: mike1mike2

mike1mike2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:24:02 +0000

Sad commentary jake. I haven’t been to BB in over a year, but when I went, they were the nicest people, we joked around, they knew me by name. Unfortunately I have a voracious appetite for movies and my wife threatened to cut my movie allowance. So now I go elsewhere. I’m thrilled to get a new release for 1$ but it’s still just a machine. I guess the next generation of workers will have to learn to maintain redboxes ATM’s, Coinstars, self check-out lanes etc. At least until someone comes up with a machine to replace those workers. R.I.P. BB

By: jake

jake — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:56:46 +0000

Blockbuster is going under. I work for them currently and i can tell you from the bottom of my heart I think that they should. Not that all those people that work for blockbuster should go with out jobs, but this is a company that cares for no one. Netflix has more movies than we do and it costs 5 dollars to rent a movie at blockbuster the same price it costs to rent one on demand. With the switch to all digital blockbuster is done. And they know it. We try to sell anything to anyone. The rewards program is stupid and no one should get it. They have made me lie to so many customers over and over again about the rewards program. But if i don’t lie i do not get hours. They keep telling us that it will only be 10 dollars for one more week then next week it goes back up to 20. I have said that so many times. And it never goes back up. Our new dollar a day late fee is stupid. We went from no late fees to a dollar a day just like red box. We are basically told not to help anyone. I mean really we are told not to help you if you have a problem. If you come in and your movie didn’t work and we don’t have another one and you ask for your money back it counts against us as a credit. Every time someone comes in with a problem we are already reluctant to help because if you make us do anything that requires us to give you money back for anything we will are told to try any and every way to not help you. I have told people many times there was nothing i can do for them when it was blockbusters fault the whole time. I have to tell them this so that I will get hours the next week. I have to sell rewards, movie passes, and confection all the time just so i can get hours for the next week. And they keep track off all of that. If you get the wrong movie and come back and ask to get your money back we will probably either say “NO” or ask to just give you store credit. If i have to give you your money back it looks REALLY bad on me. Its a big business so i know they are not supposed to care but they really, really don’t care. It is not a good company to work for or to be a consumer for. I have not gotten a raise in more than a year and i am in fear for no hours every week of my employment.

By: weewilly

weewilly — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:13:04 +0000

Well, I, for one, enjoy visiting Blockbuster for rentals, as I like the atmosphere, the smell of popcorn, and the ability to peruse the titles at my leisure. I tried online renting, but much prefer renting exactly what I want when I want it rather than trying to anticipate what I (and my lady and kids) might be in the mood to watch on the weekend. Redbox pricing can’t be beat though, so I’d be a fool to rent a movie at Blockbuster that Redbox has right next door. But since Redbox titles are pretty limited, I suspect I’ll still visit BB from time to time if they stick around. I read recently that they are going to offer pricing of $2.50 per rental if you return the movies the next day, so that will be nice. But I’m not sure you can maintain a B&M operation at that pricing level. Hollywood Video tried dollar rentals and couldn’t make it. I, for one, will miss BB if it goes.

By: prupp89

prupp89 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:35:09 +0000

Well Redbox is just creative destruction… its a more efficient way of renting movies. The video game rental market will just be taken up quickly by another vending company I’m sure. I don’t think you have anything to worry about in terms of not being able to physically go to rent movies; it just won’t be at a B&M store, but a kiosk instead. If Blockbuster were smart they’d start throwing in the towel in poor markets and invest the money they have into a new market such as video game rental kiosks, and try to position them near Redbox kiosks. If Blockbuster just sticks with their current online/B&M strategy they won’t stay afloat.

By: Car

Car — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:39:26 +0000

I think Blockbuster should be saved.

It’s a old failing business model and it’s obvious that it will fail shortly if we don’t do something about this right now (just like car manufactures), if we don’t it’s just going to get worse later, like them going out of business, and that would be bad for people who rent every day, plus don’t forget about the CEO and other executives, close relatives.

I am going to propose that everyone here must pay their “fair share” of saving Blockbuster, you have no choice, I’m your leader, supreme dictator and control everything so pay up.

I think I’ll call it the “Blockbuster bailout program” :)

Don’t worry, it’s only a loan and BB will pay it back, I think it’s a good risk, don’t you?

By: brfrankl

brfrankl — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:26:19 +0000

look into gamefly for games…