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One of them went under and sold everything. I went in to see if I could get any sweet deals. Pricing protip: 9.99 is not a going out of business deal for a USED DVD.
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Your statements confuse me. Are you using a streaming service from Blockbuster? Because those limitations (at least quality and bandwidth) would still be concerns.
If you mean that you're getting movies in the mail through blockbuster ... well I'm doing the same through Netflix.
And let me tell you ... there is no shortage of movies on Netflix for me; it has everything *I'd* like to watch. So your statement there is a bit biased. You can't just say something has a poor selection as if it's a fact without proof. You mean that Blockbuster has more films that you'd like to see. (But now I'm just being picky. ;)
11/30/09
I am not using Netflix, but other users have frequently complained about lack of new movies in their online collection.
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BTW, do you EVER have to mail the movies back at some point instead of keep going to the store?
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You have to go to the store only to find that what you want is not there and then you wind up renting some other crap just to salvage the trip.
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That's why RedBox makes so much sense. In my town, RedBoxes are at grocery stores... and a few drug stores too.
I'd rather drive to the grocery store to get a $1 RedBox movie and a bag of chips or something... than go to Blockbuster and get the same movie for $5.
I'm seeing Blockbuster stores going out of business in heavily populated areas in Columbia, SC. Times aren't looking good for Blockbuster.
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...Unfortunately, Media Plays, like their cousin the butterfly, also only have a lifespan of about a week.
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Still- Books? That's bad, but the main video store chain in Ireland, Xtravision, cram in a dozen computers into each one and try to sell the place as a cyber cafe.Really hard to want to go get a particular DVD when you have to squeeze past some 13 year old kids watching porn to get to it.
And they started selling cellphones a few years back - but they never invested in proper displays for them, so they literally screw the display phones to the wall. right through the screen. Sometimes the entire thing breaks apart so there is just the battery cover left there.
11/29/09
@njdevil: So if there are no McDonald's in your area, does it mean there aren't any anywhere else? /snark
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If all the McDonalds in my neighborhood closed down, It would mean the whole company had gone down the shitter.
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If Borders were renting movies and Blockbuster had a coffee shop attached, there would be no distinguishing the stores or their financial longevity.
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