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Jkid
 Posts: 197 Location: Capitol Heights ,MD |
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I didn't know that Blockbuster was in debt! I had a great memory with them since I was 8.
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I certainly hope Blockbuster doesn't go anywhere anytime soon.
Not that I use it for anime rentals much due to minimal selection, but I do rent a lot of movies from there and I don't want to go back to crappy mom & pop video stores that maybe stocked 10 copies of the most popular movies if you were lucky like we had in Canada prior to Blockbuster's expansion here in the mid-90s. I know there's online rentals, but I don't have a credit card, and I prefer browsing boxes at a brick-and-mortar location anyway. |
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Alchemist449
 Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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I switched to Netflix because I the anime section at my local Blockbuster was attacked by the stickers.
What I mean by that is that every single anime DVD (excluding Pokemon, Yugioh, and DBZ but oddly enough including the Miyazaki DVDs and the uncut Card Captor Sakura DVD's) was given a sticker (they have a Under 17 not allowed to rent sticker on the cases) and consequently I stopped going there. On a side note Netflix has never given me any trouble and is just as good as it appears to be. Rentanime on the other hand, is aweful. Nowadays, 9 out of 10 titles that they add are hentai and the DVDs take up to 2 weeks to arrive at both your's and their end. |
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v1cious
 Posts: 6202 Location: Houston, TX |
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DAMN! 491 million? i would've never guessed.
what are they taking all the hits from? are online rentals becoming that popular? |
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BlaqNumbr9
 Posts: 155 Location: Bowing before the Master... |
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Wow...How the mighty have fallen.
Just when you think your on top for good, someone comes along and hits you with a pink 50-pound plastic hammer wrapped in tin foil and rubber bands right aross the forehead! $491 MIlliON??!!!!  Gee Whiz!!!
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ShadorWasabi
Posts: 1 Location: Portland, Or |
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Blockbuster is good for movies.
For anime I rent with www.animetakeout.com Very large selection decently fast turn around. |
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Shinobi X
 Posts: 42 Location: Sacramento, CA |
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Whoa! I'm shocked! Never expected that BlockBuster is dying.
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remember love
 Posts: 764 Location: Germany |
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Well in my personal opinion I don't care. I hate renting because if I hated the film well I wasted my time but only a little bit of my money but if I liked the movie I rented then I wasted even more money and more time going out and buying and returning the movies I rented..Since most of the time I know what I want rentals are useless to me.
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Fronzel
Posts: 1906 |
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It's $1.32, and that's only if you keep it over a week late. I work at a Blockbuster. :p |
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remember love
Posts: 764 Location: Germany |
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Well if block buster company desides to to downsize and you get fire sorry for you pal. |
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Rion
 Posts: 71 Location: In My Own World |
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I used to work at a Blockbuster, and i hated it. So i don't really feel bad.
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aluria
 Posts: 367 Location: New Westminster, B.C., Canada |
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Honestly I don't care. I have never rented nor entered a Blockbuster ever. I rent from Rogers Video instead. There's always a pretty good amount of people in there and their Anime collection is growing pretty good. Reminds me, I need to go rent Full Metal Alchemist from them:D
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remember love
Posts: 764 Location: Germany |
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What did they have you do for brockbuster? |
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GATSU
Posts: 15309 |
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Blockbuster's been in the can for at least a year since it got dumped by Viacom. And it doesn't matter if Blockbuster directly competes with Netflix if Blockbuster still has a draconian policy of refusing to rent out films which aren't rated higher than R.
Tenchi: The reason most Mom and Pop stores didn't have the newest titles was Blockbuster cut deals with studios which left them out. They've actually been sued in court over their monopolistic practices, but survived. |
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remember love
Posts: 764 Location: Germany |
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Well, Doesn't that make them sound even better ...lol. |
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