No. 1 movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc said on Thursday it was testing pricing for its rental formats and will experiment with its store layouts to add downloading stations, books or beverages in a bid to shore up its customer base. Chief Executive Jim Keyes said that while raising prices could boost results almost immediately, he preferred to take an approach that was mindful of customers. "Are we raising prices? No, as of today," Keyes told a company analyst day in New York. "What I don't want to do is raise them three or four times."
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they should implement the movie streaming online option, like netflix has. that'd be a good thing.
only reason i haven;t switched to netflix is because netflix doesn;t have stores i can stroll into and look at all kinds of movies. i find it easier if i have the actual dvd in my hand.
another option for blockbuster. is to have stations at each isle. that you can scan a dvd before you rent it. and it plays its theatrical trailer for that movie. would be a good thing. sometimes descriptions aren;t that good.
just my two cents on this!
generally speaking, local places around me you can usually rent a movie etc for 3 dollars tops for a day or so. same stuff at blockbuster is usually 5-6+ dollars the last i checked... cause for the most part what blockbuster does is let you rent something for quite a bit longer than the local places near me do, but charges you much more to do it. which sucks if you ask me cause generally speaking who really needs to keep a movie for more than 2 days tops? , since usually if you rent it your probably going to watch it that night maybe the next day tops... so your basically "forced" to shell out more money for more time which you probably aint going to use anyways.
thank god for the internet, if you catch my drift
Last edited by ThaCrip on 10 Nov 2007 - 05:03
Old releases are 2$ for 1 day or 3 old releases for 3 days for 6$. (this is the option I use a LOT).
And their selection kicks Blockbuster in the nuts, especially when it comes to TV-On-DVD.
If someone wants a reference to what skyfrog just said head over to cNet News.com for the details behind why BB may be going down the drain.
Raising prices however is a bad idea. I'm still sticking with Netflix...
They sent me an email saying essentially "although you signed up for a plan which provides UNLIMITED in-store exchanges, we are going to reduce that to NOT A SINGLE DAMN ONE." They offered to upgrade me for an increase in fees of course and I told them to go screw themselves.
They have since given me a month free of 3 at a time to try to lure me back (but still no exchanges) so when that month is up I will be cancelling again and going back to NetFlix.
I hope Blockbuster goes down hard and costs all their investors MILLIONS! Tight-assed schmucks.
But seriously, if Blockbuster wants to save their asses, they ought to investigate a "membership" fee. Do the same thing for stores as they do online - pay $10/month and you get say 3-4 rentals, 1 at a time, and on up from there.
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