Blockbuster files for bankruptcy

Post by smokinn » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 6:27 PM UTC

jp_sc wrote: post #23

cryptoz wrote: post #17

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There's no Hulu in Canada. Until this week (or was it last week?) there was no Netflix either. Now that we have netflix, I doubt Blockbuster Canada has long to live. You might not believe it, but Canada is way behind the USA when it comes to the Internet, media, movies, mobile communication, and all of that. As we slowly catch up, traditional stores like Blockbuster will fail.

But is not Canada who is behind. Media producers are way behind the Internet in general.

Post by svjunkie » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 6:34 PM UTC

Mc_Big_G wrote: post #9

city41 wrote: post #2

Not to dance on someone's grave but to me this is fantastic news. When Blockbuster was the dominate player, they were quite the nasty bully. Ridiculously high late fees that were very hard to avoid. Half the time you'd return the DVD on time, but the employees wouldn't inventory it until it was too late and still hit you with a fee. A fee which they were extremely reluctant to remove. Their customer service was downr…

I was insanely happy when all of the "Movie Gallerys" went out of business in my area. Fist pumping and the whole nine yards. Few businesses treat their customers as terribly as video rental stores. Multiple times, I had to physically lead their employees to the video I had returned, weeks earlier, to prove that the $89 (or whatever ridiculously high) late fee was bull$#!*. Dying in a fire is too good for these store…

Post by nkassis » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 6:44 PM UTC

Psyonic wrote: post #41

nkassis wrote: post #30

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I don't get it when people find it weird that I will reread some books multiple times. I've read some books once every year or so and even my wife thinks I'm weird. She's a serial book reader (150 books as of now for the year, almost one a day) and will sell them as soon as she reads them, I don't work that way even after she tries to push me into selling some books I just can't.

What kind of books does she read, that she can read 150 in a 9 months And when does she read these books? Good Lord! Unless she reads like Kim Peak... a page in like 2 seconds, then I suppose 150 books is well within reason.

Post by pyre » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 7:08 PM UTC

chc wrote: post #47

city41 wrote: post #2

Not to dance on someone's grave but to me this is fantastic news. When Blockbuster was the dominate player, they were quite the nasty bully. Ridiculously high late fees that were very hard to avoid. Half the time you'd return the DVD on time, but the employees wouldn't inventory it until it was too late and still hit you with a fee. A fee which they were extremely reluctant to remove. Their customer service was downr…

For a little perspective: Blockbuster's biggest competitor in the western US, Hollywood Video, had much worse late fees. They wanted to charge my mom something like $100 for a video she kept a few days over. (It's been more than a decade since then, so I don't remember the precise details, but I do remember it was several times the purchase price of the movie.)

Post by pigbucket » Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 7:32 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #2

Not to dance on someone's grave but to me this is fantastic news. When Blockbuster was the dominate player, they were quite the nasty bully. Ridiculously high late fees that were very hard to avoid. Half the time you'd return the DVD on time, but the employees wouldn't inventory it until it was too late and still hit you with a fee. A fee which they were extremely reluctant to remove. Their customer service was downr…