Posted by Black Locust on 12/22/45 11:25

In article <11harvua0mfk7d7@corp.supernews.com>,
"Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:

> I smell bankruptcy.

Not likely. Despite all the hype that would lead you to believe
otherwise, Netflix only has about 3 million customers at present. This
is actually quite pathetic when you look at the big picture. As great as
their service may be for 'some' people, they're like the anti-Christ for
the casual renter. The casual renter: "You want me to let you guys
auto-charge my credit card 20 bucks every month when all I want to do is
rent a couple of movies a month? No thanks." You get the idea... There
are roughly 80 million homes equipped with DVD players now. Movie
Gallery probably has about 25% to 30% of these customers. This leaves
the rest of them for Blockbuster to shovel up and that's A LOT of
people. With their no late fee policy, they're probably reeling them in
easy. As far as I know, Blockbuster is the first video rental chain that
has ever let people rent product from them without getting nailed with a
fine for returning the product a day or two late.. You can make moronic
complaints about the little $1.25 restocking fee or the fact that they
auto-sale the DVD to your account, but the fact is, if you know how to
milk their system effeciently, you can basically rent a DVD from them
for about 40 days and only pay a total of $6.50 for it! Netflix(or any
of blockbuster's other competitors) can't even begin to touch a bargain
like that.
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dumbya Bush

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