... and in other news to you $*%(# Conservatives, the number you Freepers did on Dan Rather a few years ago, and Sumner Redstone's wipeout on Blockbuster, have done more to damage CBS News than my paltry multi-million dollar contract ... so there!
... and in other news to you $*%(# Conservatives, the number you Freepers did on Dan Rather a few years ago, and Sumner Redstone's wipeout on Blockbuster, have done more to damage CBS News than my paltry multi-million dollar contract ... so there!
>a crippling debt load of nearly $1 billion
The company’s total market value is $24 million.
Gee, whats wrong with this picture?
We haven’t rented a video in years.
. . . and has been going downhill ever since. Sure says alot about all of those haughty tauty Ivy League business degrees now down't it?
Remember when Blockbuster wanted to merge with Circuit City a couple years back? That would have been a match made in heaven!
Blockbuster failed because they couldn’t compete against NetFlix and Redbox in terms of rentals on one side and Walmart and Amazon.com in terms of first-week home video sales on the other side. And that’s not including illegal downloading through download sites and BitTorrent, too.
I’ve rented movies from Blockbuster only a handful of times. This was mostly because they were $3.99 a movie when everyone else was a dollar or two cheaper.
Good riddance. Everything is going digital delivery. I’ve been saying this for years. The concept of getting in the car and going somewhere to rent a tape/disc and having to return it later or face a stiff fine should seem insane to everyone. If it doesn’t yet, it will soon. Same with shiny discs. On the way out completely. Flash is better and faster.
Blockbuster purposefully targeted the local mom and pop stores back in the 80s. Then after they became the only option (besides Hollywood Video) they tried to get a special law passed in Utah that would ban concealed carry in their stores without them having to post a sign in the window. They failed.
Those @ssholes can KMA. I have never rented a single video from Blockbuster in my entire life. I’m glad they are going.
Redbox and even Netflix by mail will eventually fall to digital delivery.
My own experience with Blockbuster: They eliminated their ‘late fees’, but added in a ‘restocking fee’ or some such. We had two movies out past the due date. One of the movies went back fine, but the other movie was considered ‘stolen’ by Blockbuster— they bought a new copy and charged me $39 for it. When I pointed out that both movies had been returned but we’d only been charged for the one, the manager refused to refund the money and wouldn’t give me the copy of the movie that was ‘replaced’. I sent a nasty letter to corporate (to no avail) and never set foot in their store again.
I just signed up for Netflix. I only want old classics (just got Road to Morocco), and old tv shows (next up, F Troop!). The instant streaming is pretty slick too.
That’s what happens when you build your business model on Hollywood product.
Good riddance to ‘em.
When we used to rent movies from BB it was always 50/50 whether the DVD was all scratched up and defective or would run properly.