Problems with Blockuster

[Cassandra]

I'm not sure if there are Blockbuster video stores outside of the US, but I'm sure most of you probably go to them.

Starting about a year or so ago the Blockbuster I frequent started pulling movies off its shelfs and discarding them or selling them without any prior notice. What is worse is that they have gotten rid of a lot of GOOD movies. They used to have over 100 classic movies (30s-50s), but now I think there are hardly 20 of them left.

And the 'for sale' section where they but the movies they pulled is insanely out of order. They just stick the movies in at random.

I thought about the possibility that they were getting rid of movies that weren't been watched...but if you saw the selection left you would have no doubt in your mind (as I do) that that is not the case.

I cannot understand their methods and am very upset about the whole, ugly businness.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem with their Blockbuster?

 

[Lithium Hobo]

My Blockbuster never had any a good movie stock in. Plus it was in a bad part of town and the late fees and blah blah blah. So I switched to Netflix.com. Muuuuch easier than Blockbuster. However, it can't replace the action of hoping in your car, driving to the video store, and picking up a movie just for the night.

 

[Zoomer]

It's hard for a store to carry any and every movie made. I use blockbuster online, it give you access to more titles and it's a little over $15 a month for three movies out at a time.

 

[tqpix]

The only bad thing I can say about Blockbuster is that they are currently running cheesy TV ads in Canada. (They have eliminated their late fees.)

 

[Cassandra]

I know they can't keep every movie, but there methods are what bother me. They should at least give prior notice when they are taking a movie off the shelf. The most recent one they got rid of was "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (With Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur).
They also put IN new movies (and I don't mean new releases) without notice. The most recent (I saw) was B Monkey. Worst peice of trash EVER, IMO.

 

[theFijian]

We have Blockbuster in the UK and I've signed up for their DVD rental-by-post service which so far has been excellent. They have a huge catalogue to choose from online so I don't have such problems.