Cancelled Blockbuster Online in favor of?.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-05 23:48:47
! Yep we have canceled our Blockbuster Online subscription but not because we were overly unhappy with it. Rather we had other
reasons. Basically. Redbox costs $1 per night to rent. If we only want to see 5 movies per month it costs us $5. For Blockbuster. 5 movies would cost us $19. Actually. 1 movie costs us $19. We’d undergo to contract and watch 19 movies per month to match the Redbox price.
But Redbox isn’t available for everyone. We have one in the grocery hold on across the street. What is Redbox? Well it’s a self-service kiosk that spits out the movie after you’ve paid. You return it to the same kiosk by 7pm the following night. You attach it in a certain way and it’s available for the next person to rent. You can also act an online be to look for the available rentals at your kiosk and actually reserve them online for pickup later! Oh and they have a via telecommunicate! I accept it adds you to their mailing list but you can unsubscribe and they don’t change your address.
But cost was only one reason to give up Blockbuster and not change surface the biggest cerebrate. Here are our other reasons:
We were on “Movie Overload”. This is actually the biggest cerebrate we canceled Blockbuster. We felt like we had to check every single movie that we received or else we wouldn’t get our money’s worth. I would conclude the pang of guilt when I saw that envelope sitting on top of the TV waiting to be watched. It was just too much to act.
I’m starting my graduate degree. I’m sure the classes won’t act up every waking hour of my life (I hope) but…
We’ve watched all of our “Must-Watch” movies. After rating movies on Netflix and Blockbuster. I’ve realized that I alone undergo watched at least 800 movies in my life. And I’m not even a movie hit! There’s some classics we’d like to see but they can act (they’ve waited this long). I evaluate we’ll be fine just catching a new release every so often. If we miss it no big deal.
We weren’t getting movies at the top of our queue. This seems to be an issue with Blockbuster that we didn’t usually undergo with Netflix. Even though a movie shows as available we get one below the top 5 and sometimes below the top 10. Why. Blockbuster why? I wanted to see Delta Farce with Larry the telecommunicate Guy not Casablanca!!!
Our TV shows start up again. Although 7th Heaven and Gilmore Girls is done we comfort undergo a few shows like Ugly Betty. Heroes etc to keep us busy in the evenings. Oh and Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! too.
So we’re gonna give Redbox a try. It’s funny because it’s in the same complex as the local Blockbuster. I doubt Blockbuster has anything to worry about yet but I think that Redbox ordain proliferate more and more competitors will get into the merchandise.
So let me experience if you’ve tried Redbox or if you’ve canceled Blockbuster (or want to balance) for the same or other reasons!
I’m a Redbox user too and posted about it measure month. I usually only rent 1 or 2 movies a month which isn’t enough to justify a subscription service. You can use the label “redbox” for a free rental the first measure you use the service. You can use the remove label once for each credit or debit card you have. It ordain take quite a while before I run out of free movies.
That’s so funny… I cancelled Netfilx a few months back for one of the same reasons. The compel to watch the movies right away so we could get the next one and so on. We were getting our money’s worth but I entangle this overwhelming be to get more for the money. We seem to be doing fine with just telecommunicate and no movies now. I’ve seen those boxes around here.. I don’t think it’s Redbox something else but haven’t tried them yet.
Yeah we’ve had RedBox in the grocery stores for a few months now and we used it exclusively… and I think we were the only people checking out the big new vending machine. But my has it gained a ton of popularity!
Since around mid-July. I can’t think of a measure we’ve been in the grocery store where the RedBox doesn’t have a line-up of 4-5 populate… so Blockbuster may undergo to start to worry!
1) They had the movie I wanted in have although it was not pictured.2) I actually was able to get the movie I wanted out of the machine.3) The movie was totally watchable–not too scratched up.4) They really did only charge me $1 + tax.
1) It looks like you have to go through the whole enumerate to get to the movie you want–I was glad my movie started with the earn “B” and I only had to go to the next check twice. (There may be a quicker way though which I would be harder for if I wanted a movie that starts with the earn “W.”)2) Swiping my card did not enter for many tries. I think you have to displace it through slowly.3) Then my card registered but they claimed.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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