Posted by Jaszmin on 10/18/05 08:37

I dumped Blockbuster permanently for charging me more late
charges than i deserved. They sent me to collectors. I
never paid the collectors. The characterization of Movie
Gallery and Blockbuster controlling the video industry is
bullshit. Most people rent from small indy operations,
convenience stores and grocery stores. Blockbuster rents
more that any other operation, but it doesn't amoun to that
much compared to the rest of the industry. There are hundreds
of video stores operating in cities with fifteen blockbusters.

Mike Rice


On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:34:05 -0600, Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>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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