Back to Blockbuster Video: No More Late Fees and How it Really Works
What Do You Mean No More Late Fees???
Recently I entered Blockbuster Video and upon arriving I found out that there are no more late fees.
So immediatley I asked "Whats the catch?" to which the attendant replied. "There is no catch sir, just return the movies at your leisure."
Since when did these people become so nice? I remeber dreading to rent a movie for fear of being hassled about late fees. Well, upon further investigation, I found that there is a bit of a catch, but it is a very resonable one.
How it works is they rent you the movie and it still has a due date.
Lets say the movie is due on thursday. If you do not return it on thursday there is no problem, as long as you renturn it. After 4 days of being late they will call and remind you that the movies is still out.
After 7 days the movie gets charged to the credit card on my account. As long as I return the movie within one month of the time I rented it, Blockbuster will refund the money to my credit card with no questions asked. NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!!
Can you believe it. They have taken the hassle out of movie renting. If I keep the movie beyond a month, the movie is mine to keep, and basically I have purchased the movie at their previewed price. So feel free to go back to Blockbuster stress free. A 30-day rental period sounds like a deadline the laziest of the lazy could meet.
So immediatley I asked "Whats the catch?" to which the attendant replied. "There is no catch sir, just return the movies at your leisure."
Since when did these people become so nice? I remeber dreading to rent a movie for fear of being hassled about late fees. Well, upon further investigation, I found that there is a bit of a catch, but it is a very resonable one.
How it works is they rent you the movie and it still has a due date.
Lets say the movie is due on thursday. If you do not return it on thursday there is no problem, as long as you renturn it. After 4 days of being late they will call and remind you that the movies is still out.
After 7 days the movie gets charged to the credit card on my account. As long as I return the movie within one month of the time I rented it, Blockbuster will refund the money to my credit card with no questions asked. NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!!
Can you believe it. They have taken the hassle out of movie renting. If I keep the movie beyond a month, the movie is mine to keep, and basically I have purchased the movie at their previewed price. So feel free to go back to Blockbuster stress free. A 30-day rental period sounds like a deadline the laziest of the lazy could meet.
Published by Josh Kidder
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3 Comments
Post a CommentThe Blockbuster in my town closed. I think that Redbox put them out of business with their $1.00 rentals. Maybe it was their movie pass option that put them out of business. That would be the way to buy movies - especially new releases. Whoever came up with that idea wasn't very bright.
Sarcastic, which is my own style, so the nepetist in me I have ot say I love this article. Short and to the point, no playing around. Great job.
Also, about Blockbuster, they never really have the true independent and soft releases, so I tend to stay away from them, but when I did deal with them, I'd often get free movies by returning them back before midnight on the next day, I believe, when it wasn't really due until the next day. Return it before midnight on the same day and I think you'd get a credit or something, can't remember.
Ya, this is true. And yet, now whenever I enter a Blockbuster as a Movie Pass user (with a flat fee each month for unlimited one-at-a-time rentals, i.e. no late fees), every movie that has been released in the past 2-3 weeks is curiously missing from the shelves. This is due to the fact that after watching a rental, now Blockbuster has made it easier than ever for lazy people to not have to return a movie so that someone else might be able to watch it. Goodbye late fees = goodbye new releases!