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by loso
2886 days ago
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I used to love Blockbuster. But that love quickly faded with their business practices. Their policy of putting a hit against your credit report when you had a late charge on a movie was the first strike. Not a movie that you kept weeks and weeks on end at your house letting the charge pile up. Nope a two day late charge that you didn't pay because you just assumed that you would pay it the next time you rented a movie. There was a class action lawsuit against them about this very practice. The second strike was about lost movies. My ex rented movies so we could watch them. That night I put them on the floor of the back seat of my car so I could head in to work at the club. I came back and someone had gotten into the car and took the movies. I reported to theft to blockbuster expecting to have to pay for the movies. They tried to charge me $200 for each movie. $600 total. I asked them where they nuts. I wasn't paying that. I told them I could get the same movies down the street from Walmart at $20 a piece and give them to you. They said fine, go ahead and do that. Why would you be that unreasonable in the first place and try to charge me that crazy amount. |
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With regards to the $200 each movie, it's like that because they want you to do what you did and go somewhere else to buy it. They can't tell you that directly though because it's walking the line copyright wise.
Not sure about the US but here in Australia you have to buy the media from a licenced studio distributer (Always costs at least $10 more than kmart or target) for it to be allowed to be rented. By getting you to go out and get the movie they don't change the asset ID in their system and no one is any the wiser.