Comments on: (Not that we’re bitter or anything.)

By: Mira

Mira — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:48:44 +0000

Now all we need is for there to be a better tv option than cable or satellite.

They’re never going to go to a la carte pricing. Perhaps the content producers will decide that they can make more money by selling directly to the viewer. Perhaps some kind of distribution network the way book and magazine publishers have.

By: tl

tl — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:44:00 +0000

Whenever I was abused by BB’s poor customer’s service I would tell the worker he would soon be replaced by a vending machine. I was right.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:21:55 +0000

Yes, we as consumers should just continue paying ridiculous rental fees (seriously, 4.99 for two to 7 nights?) for a bloated and outdated business model. Then, as was the case in my town, we should also feel bad for the fact that some franchise owners refused to go to the no late fees policy. Therefore, making renting extremely expensive. Versus Netflix, which, for 13.99 a month, if you are smart, you can rent up to 4-6 physical DVDs and watch streaming movies.

So let me get this straight. Pay 4.99 to rent one movie and have to pay late fees if I forget to return it on time. Which means, possibly, for 13.99 I can rent 2-3 movies per month. Or one, depending on how late the movie is.

Yes, its all our fault your executive level management had the opportunity to switch over to a online component, mail, and kiosk system when they had those millions of dollars in capital and profits to invest in it, but thought it wasn’t a sound business model. Instead they attempted a half assed “no late fee” policy.

By: karen

karen — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:55:49 +0000

Yeah, Blockbuster, the reason Netflix won over your business is mainly due to your lousy treatment of customers, your exorbitant fees and flawed computer system.

By: Sherman

Sherman — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:08:40 +0000

FTW a Netflix ad just ran with post in my reader.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:51:05 +0000

ROTFL, I know why you’re doing it despite your denials. Get over it, just about every adult here has confessed to committing a childish act once or twice. I didn’t shit in the foreign film aisle…but I thought about it.

Bottom line? Treat me like a human being and I’ll behave like one. Treat be like an animal…

By: Rattus

Rattus — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:02:36 +0000

I don’t know why I’m doing this but: no, not carrying over rage from another thread. Am genuinely disgusted by someone, and an adult at that, urinating on a door handle in a fit of pique. And yes, I am interested in learning, but about things that interest me (currently the PreRaphaelites, organic gardening and playing the harmonica), not in gathering the sort of information I need to keep the obtuse adequately informed as to the subtext of my posts.

And I now completely understand the brain damage analogy priorly mentioned.

By: Chesire Cat

Chesire Cat — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:57:45 +0000

Of course the stoners never paid the high fee. They spent all their money on pot! They just never went back to that particular Blockbuster.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:48:05 +0000

It took more than one $400 fee before they figured out to return the movies after they recovered? Wow. With customers and policies like that, they should have stayed in business longer.

By: Chesire Cat

Chesire Cat — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:50:25 +0000

Other problems I had with Blockbuster. We tried that plan where you can rent as many movies at the store as you want for a certain amount each month and just come in and get a new one whenever you want. Except every time I went to exchange for a new movie, a 5 minute process became a 20 minute process because they would have one register open and the line was always long and it would take forever. I always got stuck behind some jackass who took 20 minutes to pick out some candy to add to their order or something stupid. It infuriated me!

Netflix kinda solves that problem right there. No lines. No jackasses.

I used to switch back and forth from Blockbuster online to Netflix whenever one of them would start throttling me. But Blockbuster online was always way worse. Eventually I just stuck with Netflix because they stopped throttling me and I had no reason to switch.

Another thing Blockbuster did which was not okay. My friends would rent a movie and get stoned and drunk and never remember to return it. Okay, fine. Give them some late charges and them after so long just charge them the price to get a new movie. No, they would charge them like $400 when no way a new movie costs that much. It just made no sense.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:45:27 +0000

No, bookworm. Never tried to say less than I have to say. Won’t be silenced by you or anyone but the webmaster.
Try having the attention span of a gnat.
In fact, I’m emboldened by people (trolls?) like you.

Isn’t “teal deer” longer than “tl,dr”? Evr trd bng mor concise? LOL

Too bad I have to work today…could be another “Get CB regardless of the note” day!
Have at it, gotta run, but I’ll be baahhck!

By: bookworm

bookworm — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:38:23 +0000

Still not interested in reading all of your Teal Deer. Have you ever tried attempting to speak your mind in a concise manner? You might actually keep people’s attention long enough to get whatever reaction it is you happen to crave at the time!

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:02:04 +0000

Still not interested in learning, huh? What a shame.
There was no hidden slight, I clearly stated that I was just fucking with (playing around with) you.
A thicker skin on such an occasion would go a long way.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:38:14 +0000

Honestly, no. To quote the young interneters of today, TL; DR. And to add my own touch, DC.