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Panama City, FL | Say what? Piracy, yeah, that's the reason.
Not - excessive and/or hidden fees, constant changing of policies, stores being closed all over (all 3 of mine stores closed, closest is now 50 miles away, yet I get spam & junk mail asking me to sign up so I can get in-store exchanges!), incompetent crew, etc.
Yeah, it's the piracy!
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| Re: Say what? said by goober22:Piracy, yeah, that's the reason. Not - excessive and/or hidden fees, constant changing of policies, stores being closed all over (all 3 of mine stores closed, closest is now 50 miles away, yet I get spam & junk mail asking me to sign up so I can get in-store exchanges!), incompetent crew, etc. Yeah, it's the piracy! I agree. Especially when Netflix/Gamefly offers a superior product. I can't tell you when the last time I went to a Blockbuster was. What? 2007? | |
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| said by goober22:Piracy, yeah, that's the reason. Not - excessive and/or hidden fees, constant changing of policies, stores being closed all over (all 3 of mine stores closed, closest is now 50 miles away, yet I get spam & junk mail asking me to sign up so I can get in-store exchanges!), incompetent crew, etc. Yeah, it's the piracy! Yeah, I agree. Especially when Netflix/Gamefly offers a superior product. I can't tell you when the last time I went to a Blockbuster was. What, 2007? | |
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| Re: Say what? I personally like to still rent from Blockbuster. Yeah I know I can rent online or watch pay per view via Comcast, but the way I see it I am helping keep a LOCAL business open and supporting their employees. I did the same for Christmas shopping, all at local malls and stores I did absolutely no online shopping.  | |
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North Little Rock, AR | Re: Say what? How is shopping at a multinational corporation and national chains in the mall supporting a LOCAL business?
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kudos:4 | Re: Say what? said by toddbs98: How is shopping at a multinational corporation and national chains in the mall supporting a LOCAL business? They hire people from the LOCAL community as employees. | |
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NOW BACK TO WORK | |
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| Re: Say what? said by chronoss2009:for what a min wage job ...your welcome NOW BACK TO WORK I am sorry you have a minimum wage job. I don't know where you get the idea someone else does.
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Say what? said by tvtek:said by chronoss2009:for what a min wage job ...your welcome NOW BACK TO WORK I am sorry you have a minimum wage job. I don't know where you get the idea someone else does. Blockbuster employees make min wage. The managers make a couple bucks more. The GMs make the cash but most aren't local. I know a few and another few that got fired when a store closed and didn't get paid their last two weeks. Owner went bankrupt but still lives on the beach in Pensacola, Fl.
Your local Dominoes and Pizza Huts are mostly the same that screw drivers and hire teens or young 20somethings inside. Both pay at min wage. Drivers are usually a 50-75% churn since they quit since no money (that delivery fee goes to the business not them). | |
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| Re: Say what? said by cameronsfx:Blockbuster employees make min wage. The managers make a couple bucks more. The GMs make the cash but most aren't local. I know a few and another few that got fired when a store closed and didn't get paid their last two weeks. Owner went bankrupt but still lives on the beach in Pensacola, Fl. Your local Dominoes and Pizza Huts are mostly the same that screw drivers and hire teens or young 20somethings inside. Both pay at min wage. Drivers are usually a 50-75% churn since they quit since no money (that delivery fee goes to the business not them). I understand getting paid minimum wage as I did when I got my first job almost 30 years ago. For one at least they have a job and second they do get tips just like the servers at Starbucks do. Just think minimum wages are paid at McDonald's, but no tips there. Then again its a free country do as you please and apply where you are qualified for.
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| | | | | | | | | | | said by cameronsfx:(that delivery fee goes to the business not them). Erm... Where do you think the money for the driver's wages comes from? The $5 fee that we charged at our place went ENTIRELY to the driver (minus the government's cut), and the business still kicks in a bit, because that's not enough to cover minimum wage + gas money. I'm not saying that minimum wage is great but you make it sound like restaurant owners raking it in on delivery fees.
It's not. It's bad for just about everybody. For the business, delivery is a money suck. It's not a profit maker. It costs more to pay the driver and re-imburse him for gas than the $5 delivery fee. It's also not possible to charge more, because the cheapskates like you already consider that fee to be high -- which is the reason often given for not tipping. It's even worse when you factor in the stiffs. 30% of the people demanding delivery are on welfare (no car, and they can't be bothered to cook for themselves), who order and then find they haven't enough money to pay the bill when the guy gets there. Most of the businesses in town (myself included) are considering dumping the delivery service altogether, as it's just not worth it. | |
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| said by Romney2012:said by toddbs98: How is shopping at a multinational corporation and national chains in the mall supporting a LOCAL business? They hire people from the LOCAL community as employees. Certainly that is interesting component of 'online sales', as well as other social aspects (for example human interaction has been largely replaced by virtual interactions). I sometimes wonder if its all worth it as I try often try to buy locally as well. The social economic impact of the internet hasn't aways been positive or at least 'locally' positive and so the question remains what happens to all the people who jobs etc have been displaced by the internet (and before people respond perhaps they should consider their own careers being disrupted at say age 50 and what would they do).
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| Re: Say what? Very interesting concept, but one I'm not sure about. I do try to buy American made goods. Toilet Seats (that are also made better), shovel (was actually cheaper), pet food/treats (you would be amazed - and I don't trust Chinese made dog food for some reason), toothpaste (didn't know it was imported until recently), and a few other odds and ends. But as for supporting local retailers, it is almost impossible to find any that are really local. I did frequent a local indy coffee shop until Starbucks put them under. I go to local restaurants all the time, but the food is better for the most part. Looking at the retail sector we are talking IKEA, BestBuy, Target, Walmart (won't go in them anymore, too crowded, prices are ok but Target is on par for the most part), Borders, Safeway. These are all national chains. Yes, Target gives back something like 1 or 5% to the local community, but Target sells things I can't or won't buy online like Food, clothing, LCD televisions, holiday greeting cards, you name it. Yes, Target gives back something like 1 or 5% to the local community, but Target sells things I can't or won't buy online like Food, clothing, LCD televisions, holiday greeting cards, you name it.
When you look at ordering online all you are doing is moving the storefront, and in some cases buying things you can't buy locally.
A few examples:
Internet.
Coffee, I buy a 3lbs bag every 3/4 months from higher grounds. Organic, fairtrade, etc... The Colombian is the best I've had (Very low Acid). They are a small operation out of MI.
Amazon - items always seems to ship from DE or KY where they employ hundreds in their warehouses.
NewEgg - all my Chinese and Taiwanese toys ship from warehouses in NJ and CA where many locals are employed.
I can't say I am helping my community, but my purchases are helping several around the country.
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| Re: Say what? I did consider my employment I held for many years doing in home service in the Portland/Salem, Or and San Francisco areas for Circuit City long term. Remember employees are shareholders to in some cases. 
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kudos:5 | As a business owner, I wish my profits would come somewhere close to what I pay out in payroll!
If you had a true local video store, and could view its books, you would find that the revenues pay out in roughly this order:
1. Inventory, all paid to non-local sources
2. Payroll, local
3. Rent/utilities/physical operations, probably not local especially if it is a mall location
4. Profit, small in comparison to any of the other three.
Note that the above would equally apply to most other retailers, with the bulk of revenues sent out of the area (and out of the country in many cases) for inventory.
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| | | | | | | Re: Say what? said by dbirdman:As a business owner, I wish my profits would come somewhere close to what I pay out in payroll! If you had a true local video store, and could view its books, you would find that the revenues pay out in roughly this order: 1. Inventory, all paid to non-local sources 2. Payroll, local 3. Rent/utilities/physical operations, probably not local especially if it is a mall location 4. Profit, small in comparison to any of the other three. Note that the above would equally apply to most other retailers, with the bulk of revenues sent out of the area (and out of the country in many cases) for inventory. um unfortunatley thats good thing sir, your actually benefiting your community far more percentage wise then a HUGE chain that sends all the money pays employs as little as it can and finds loopholes to screw people all day.
ITS proven fact at least incanada that small business drives the economy. NOT TRUE in USA where youmust be a shareholder to live.
HOWABOUT govt invest in every profitmaking comapny and takes the returns for welfare of all people an antitax if you will. stockfare a 60's term in fact. | |
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| Re: Say what? said by chronoss2009:ITS proven fact at least incanada that small business drives the economy. NOT TRUE in USA where youmust be a shareholder to live. Where is the proof that small business DOESN'T drive the economy here in the USA, but does in Canada? No one in my household is a shareholder, and believe me we do just fine as well as many other Americans do.
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kudos:4 | said by goober22:Not - excessive and/or hidden fees, constant changing of policies, stores being closed all over (all 3 of mine stores closed, closest is now 50 miles away, yet I get spam & junk mail asking me to sign up so I can get in-store exchanges!), incompetent crew, etc. This is what is killing Blockbusters, at least in the US:
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| Re: Say what? said by Romney2012:said by goober22:Not - excessive and/or hidden fees, constant changing of policies, stores being closed all over (all 3 of mine stores closed, closest is now 50 miles away, yet I get spam & junk mail asking me to sign up so I can get in-store exchanges!), incompetent crew, etc. This is what is killing Blockbusters, at least in the US: » www.redbox.com/ Redbox it is... netflix ate on their market share but redbox is a clear sub for the people that will rather get a movie right the way... even better at 1 per night | |
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Wyoming, MI | There's also Family Video around here for movies and games, which is similar to Blockbuster except cheaper and you can choose to rent for less time for even more off. Of course they don't have the old game I want while Blockbuster does. But Blockbuster charges you $10 for a 5-day rental, and there are no options for a shorter time period. | |
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Springfield, MO | said by goober22:Piracy, yeah, that's the reason. Not - excessive and/or hidden fees, constant changing of policies, stores being closed all over (all 3 of mine stores closed, closest is now 50 miles away, yet I get spam & junk mail asking me to sign up so I can get in-store exchanges!), incompetent crew, etc. Yeah, it's the piracy! redbox, netflix, gamefly /thread | |
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| Blockbuster is so 1993 When you can't be innovative, you lose! Blockbuster should direct all of its sources to Internet movie retailing like netflix if the plan to survive.
Even though I have 3 blockbuster in a 15 miles radius and about 20 redbox in a 5 miles radius.
I have 3 separate devices in my home, a HTPC in the bedroom, Macbook and a PS3 which all STREAM netflix movies on top of the 3 disc i get by mail!
Blockbuster just waste all their money on merchandising and stocking and especially labor at this brick and mortar for no reason. If blockbuster presidents are reading this... Selling an extra pack of candy is not going to save your company! Wake up! | |
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Camden, TN | Here's part of the problem Well there are lots of part but here's one. We have a Movie Gallery where I live. New rentals are like $4-$5. Ok I can get that with Amazon and not leave my house and have to return the thing. Movie Gallery has like 40 copies of a new movie. Ok how many times is each one actually getting rented? Enough to make a profit? I doubt it. How about having 10 copies and having each one getting rent 4X as many times. Well maybe not that many times more but you ge the point. Also that means you can lower the price to give me incentive not to rent form Amazon. Also when you go to sell that used movie don't be selling it for the same price I can get it at Wal-Mart brand new still in the wrapper or only slightly cheaper.
What's also ironic is that they have 40 copies of come crappy movie but a popular video game you're lucky if the have more than one. The only business Movie Gallery gets from me is video game rental and even that's been reduced due to the fact they either never get the game in at all or when they do the one copy they have is always out. But hey I can still rent a copy of Madden 08.  | |
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1 edit | Re: Here's part of the problem said by BF69:Well there are lots of part but here's one. We have a Movie Gallery where I live. New rentals are like $4-$5. Ok I can get that with Amazon and not leave my house and have to return the thing. Movie Gallery has like 40 copies of a new movie. Ok how many times is each one actually getting rented? Enough to make a profit? I doubt it. How about having 10 copies and having each one getting rent 4X as many times. Well maybe not that many times more but you ge the point. Also that means you can lower the price to give me incentive not to rent form Amazon. Also when you go to sell that used movie don't be selling it for the same price I can get it at Wal-Mart brand new still in the wrapper or only slightly cheaper. What's also ironic is that they have 40 copies of come crappy movie but a popular video game you're lucky if the have more than one. The only business Movie Gallery gets from me is video game rental and even that's been reduced due to the fact they either never get the game in at all or when they do the one copy they have is always out. But hey I can still rent a copy of Madden 08. Yeah, I agree. Before my local Hollywood Video closed, I was looking for a certain game and they had one copy ordered/in, so of course, when I went for it, it was checked out. I went home, signed up for Gamefly sometime later and got the game I was looking for.
Even plan to buy it later.
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Piracy => little impact
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"he who controls the _____ controls the market!"
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Springfield, MO | Re: Myopic THE SPICE MUST FLOW! | |
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1 edit | um FUNNY AND WRONG actually as a pirate i wold goto your store more
think about blockheads
wouldn't be the economy in a nose dive because of wait for it wait wait
AMERCAN SCAMMERS in HOUSING MARKETS AND LOANS
na has nohting to do with it
I KNOW lets give AMERICANS ACTA
hey we dont need to see the treaty we can TRUST AMERICA
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Hilliard, OH | Re: um FUNNY AND WRONG I wish you hadn't just raped my eyes. | |
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was it the words or the caps to get your attention
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1 edit | Re: um FUNNY AND WRONG said by chronoss2009: actually as a pirate i wold goto your store more think about blockheads wouldn't be the economy in a nose dive because of wait for it wait wait AMERCAN SCAMMERS in HOUSING MARKETS AND LOANS na has nohting to do with it I KNOW lets give AMERICANS ACTA hey we dont need to see the treaty we can TRUST AMERICA haha I think its more the lack of coherent thought, poor sentence structure, and missing punctuation. And the completely off-topic rant.
Lets follow this through:
"actually as a pirate i wold goto your store more"
Ok. Somewhat on topic . "Go to" is two words, btw. Some capitalization would be nice.
"think about blockheads"
Ok, I will. What about blockheads?
"wouldn't be the economy in a nose dive because of wait for it wait wait"
This is where you started to lose me. Just what do you mean by "would not be the economy in a nose dive"? I waited and got this:
"AMERCAN SCAMMERS in HOUSING MARKETS AND LOANS
na has nohting to do with it"
Nothing to do with pirates & Blockbuster in Portugal? I'm fairly certain they don't. Or nothing to do with economy in a nose dive? Or nothing to do with blockheads? The post is unclear. "Scammers"? What scammers? Are they the blockheads? This just brings up so many questions.
"I KNOW lets give AMERICANS ACTA"
As a solution to Blockbuster closing in Portugal? As far as I'm aware ACTA isn't something that benefits only America so I'm not sure why you think Americans want it.
"hey we dont need to see the treaty we can TRUST AMERICA"
Thank you for your trust. I'd still recommend you look at the treaty. And you trust Americans, and you trust in America. Its impossible to trust a country.
"haha"
Oh, you were joking. Was the "haha" part just on the last bit about trusting (in) America, or where you laughing about your entire disjointed post?
Like many people, I find punctuation marks (you know .,', etc) go a long way to helping the reader follow a writer's train of thought. Doesn't have to be perfect, just reasonable. Take this reply. I've made three punctuation mistakes, but most people will be able to understand it fine. Just a suggestion. | |
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Springfield, MO | funny thing WE DONT WANT IT ETHER imagine that | |
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Ann Arbor, MI | Re: My refrigerator is broken... I can check new stuff out of my local library for free...
Yeah that's piracy too.
You have bigger issues than piracy Blockbuster. | |
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1 edit | Blockbuster Boycot I've been happily boycotting Blockbuster since 2001. Long lines, expensive, movies not in stock, not possible to reserve a movie, misplaced movies that were returned that I was subsequently charged for, late fees, poor customer service, carrying altered versions of movies, not carrying certain movies at all, requiring a credit card to become a member are all reasons why Blockbuster is going out of business. I predicted in 2007 that Blockbuster would file for bankruptcy in 2009. I was close.
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| Redbox I'm not sure what is available in Portugal, but around here Redbox machines are killing Blockbuster, however even before then you had Netflix
Blockbuster is only good for renting games anymore, but to Blockbusters dismay gamefly has been around a while also. So what we have left is the antiquated brick, and mortal store which has not kept up with the times.
Waaah piracy.... waaah... Yeah right. Lets try bad business model.
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Jonesboro, GA | Re: Redbox Ooops ...
Can I ask you all something? OK, so blu-ray is suppose to be protection proof right, then why are there still 720p or 1080p rip out there? | |
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this was the day after they sold the 1st of each type a disc.
ONE DAY
i have copy if you wish to pm me , of course you need to not be a script kiddy to figure out how to use it.....
all the millins they spend on stuff like game discs and whats this i have unsecrerom unsafedisc for ????
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Elmhurst, NY | Fire Sale at Blockbuster? Blockbuster is the AOL of movie rentals.
If you do not evolve with the technology growing around you, you will eventually be considered non competitive and die off or come close to death like AOL.
They can try and jump on the Netflix bandwagon, but does their name still carry weight in people's eyes and would they be ready to offer a better deal out of the starting gate over that of Netflix?
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| Netflix Netflix was just the thing I was looking for in the late 1990's, having been ripped off by blockbusters late fees a few times. If I remember correctly, rentals were $3.99 for 5 days and then $5 a day late fee after that. The thing that pissed people off was that the rental would not just re-up for 5 days, it would have the daily late fee's instead. It cost more to return the damn movies than it did to take them out!!!
I am sure research was put into this also, we would rent on Fridays, and if we did not return by Sunday we probably were not returning them until the next Friday.
So blame yourself blockbuster, no one likes to be taken advantage of.
I would have blamed myself, but we just switched to netflix instead....
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| MadtownPremium
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | Re: Netflix I use Netflix now, and let me tell you it saves me a lot more money than going over to Blockbuster. If I were to rent 30 movies, in a month it would cost me over I think 30 dollars, but if I rent or stream 30 movies in a month with Netflix it's only $8.99 which is a good deal. | |
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| |  VanPremium
join:2009-07-08
New Orleans, LA | Re: Netflix Netflix absolutely embarrasses Blockbuster
It isn't even close | |
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| BlitzenZeusBurnt Out CynicPremium
join:2000-01-13
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| Actually more than once blockbusters lazy employees were too lazy to check the items returned on time so people got late fees from their own lazyness. I had argued with the fat, and lazy manager of the local blockbuster years ago to have them reversed a couple times, however after it happened again I told them to go f themselves as they were trying to screw the consumers by returning the movies late on purpose. I among many I'm sure reported this abuse to corporate.
Later on they had that big ad campaign about no more late fees, well it was too late, they had already alienated their customers, and I had not used them for years at this point. They screwed themselves, and nobody else is at fault for their problems.
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My hourly rates:
$25 per hour.
$35 per hour if you want to watch.
$45 per hour if you want to help.
$75 per hour if you tried to fix it, and failed.
Security through obscurity is for the ignorant who don't deserve security. | |
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| | MadtownPremium
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | Re: Netflix I would not pay the late fees, and go with someone else, even if no one else was around, because I don't think Netflix was around when I quit going over to Cock Buster, I mean excuse me Blockbuster.
This reminds me, back in 2000 or 2001, I renew my blockbuster membership, and the funny thing is ever since then, I haven't rented a movie from them. | |
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MadtownPremium
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | Nothing but a porn shop I think Blockbuster is nothing but a porn shop if you ask me, while it's technically not a porn shop as it doesn't carry adult titles, but it's a porn shop because the atmosphere feels like one, the way the shelves are set up, the way the movies are placed on the shelves, everything, even the ceiling and the floor and everything. The movies on the New Release are old movies, nothing new on them.
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MadtownPremium
join:2008-04-26
Madera, CA | Bunch of retards working there. I use to take advantage of those retards, I would claim to them, that the movie wasn't working right, it would skip or something like that and they let me have a free rental because of it, (trick is don't do it all the time) and I tell you those retards, oh excuse me employees were so stupid they let me have a free rental, and the dvd never skipped at all, and what make them even more retarded is that I told them the tape inside the dvd got stuck in the dvd player, and they gave me a free rental, there ain't no fucking tape inside a dvd, what a bunch of retards. | |
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 HpowerRoflmao
join:2000-06-08
Glendale, CA
1 edit | Who's Blockbuster again? Oooohh yea... Blockbuster...it is your time to DIE! Just die already.
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| chong67
join:2001-11-18
Jonesboro, GA | Re: Who's Blockbuster again? Oooohh yea... Have you all seen Blockbuster Express? It is like Redbox. We need competition like that in cable companies. | |
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More corporate Bologna.
More corporate propaganda. When low cost high fidelity home recorders became available in the late 70's the RIAA immediately attacked home taping. The Record Labels used home taping as a scapegoat for any problems with the growth of their industry. It was always little Joey stealing their Intellectual property by home taping, when there was an economic downturn. The same holds true for movies. Blockbuster blames piracy when piracy is simply a scapegoat for Blockbusters lack of foresight. 
