The Blockbuster I went to as a kid always had a really odd but good smell to it. It overpowered every other smell in the store, it was insane.
[QUOTE=teh pirate;25009944]The Blockbuster I went to as a kid always had a really odd but good smell to it. It overpowered every other smell in the store, it was insane.[/QUOTE]
I noticed this to! Must be the air conditioning, I always remember BB being cold.
Wow, first Movie Gallery and now this.
Guess I gotta get a gamefly account now, or something...
[QUOTE=Arrows;25007218]Should be about 50p to a quid, dvds and movies are dirt cheap these days and you can watch whatever online now anyway.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's called changing your business model. They're dinosaurs that didn't want to evolve and keep up with the times.
close down already grafton store
i wanna go buy scanners and games on the cheap
Used to be a lot of blockbusters around my area, all of them closed one by one. They tried to keep one of them open but it folded as well.
What sucks is that it was an ok place for teenage workers, not enough of those places around nowadays.
I only like Blockbuster for the occasional time that I want to purchase a movie without traveling for thirty minutes. :saddowns:
[QUOTE=GodKing;25005306]I used to have an independent video store across the street from my old apartment that I would rent from and 25% of the movies I rented had to be returned because they were scratched to shit. And I mean, it was as if someone had taken an exacto knife to them, not just wear and tear scuffs and marks.
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Not for long probably. Rogers just went down, although there is a Rogers video store just down the street from me and I don't understand why, if they're out of that business.[/QUOTE]
Rogers went down? I walked into one of their stores just last week...
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I also go there to rent games and shit since I don't like paying out the ass for Xbox games, motherfucker.
I rent from blockbuster all the time AND I get unlimited online and game rentals for $15 a month. I DO NOT want that to stop.
FUCKING NETFLIX WHAT THE FUCK I GREW UP WITH BLOCKBUSTER AND YOU WILL NOT FUCKING TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME.
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Rent a ton of movies so when they shut down you get to keep them :-D
The Blockbuster near me shut down a few years ago, and they were selling every movie and game for like $1-10. Needless to say I was pissed to have missed it because they had some pretty fucking classic movies.
[QUOTE=Fycix;25027951]The Blockbuster near me shut down a few years ago, and they were selling every movie and game for like $1-10. Needless to say I was pissed to have missed it because they had some pretty fucking classic movies.[/QUOTE]
same with my local Movie Gallery.
I bought a couple movies there.
"The Aristocrats"
"Death Proof"
"Hatchet"
and I got "Resident Evil: Degeneration" for my brother.
I was PISSED that Pulp Fiction wasn't there.
That and I had bought COD4 for 39.99 over XBL and they were selling it for 5 bucks brand new.
I was pissed that day.
I thought Blockbuster went out of business years ago.
My Blockbuster shut down a few years a go, I was sad. :saddowns:
Blockbuster was scummy anyways.
but who could forget
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the one in my neighborhood just went out of business..........
Of course Blockbuster is going to go bust. Why would you hop in your car, head over to Blockbuster, look for a movie that looks interesting, check it out (And here if you're late returning them, they automatically take from your bank account the full price of what you rented... although you do get to keep it. But a 7 dollar game rental, then them charging $60 if you're late? Fuck that) Then return it later? When you can just pull up a movie on Netflix at the touch of a couple buttons, or Hulu, or Megavideo, or CastTV
The only thing Blockbuster is good for is Game Rentals since you can't really do that anywhere else... but even that is going to migrate to Digital Distribution before long
I liked when they did the no late fees campaign and we kept a movie for 2 extra days to show my sister and we had to pay 28 bucks. We could've bought the damn movie.
I know when I was a kid every month or so my mate's mum would take us both to blockbuster, we'd both pick a film to watch, rent them, and watch them in an afternoon. Sad to see it go :(
Blockbuster = my childhood.
First N64 game was rented there. :(
We had 2 blockbusters in our town and one of them just closed. Also game rentals went up to $10 for 5 days. It's complete bullshit.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;25035249]Of course Blockbuster is going to go bust. Why would you hop in your car, head over to Blockbuster, look for a movie that looks interesting, check it out (And here if you're late returning them, they automatically take from your bank account the full price of what you rented... although you do get to keep it. But a 7 dollar game rental, then them charging $60 if you're late? Fuck that) Then return it later? When you can just pull up a movie on Netflix at the touch of a couple buttons, or Hulu, or Megavideo, or CastTV
The only thing Blockbuster is good for is Game Rentals since you can't really do that anywhere else... but even that is going to migrate to Digital Distribution before long[/QUOTE]
I don't want to sit at my chair for 2 hours and watch a movie on my leetle monitor. I'd rather go out, rent a movie on Blu-Ray, and enjoy it in glorious High-Def.
[QUOTE=Louis;25001679]The one I go to sells them for £1, new ones at £2 :what:
I buy and sell all of my games to blockbuster, i'll miss you BB :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
A pound isn't equal to a dollar.
We stopped going to blockbusters soon after we got rid of our vhs player.
If they do go out of business I hope it's soon, I have a really high late fee on a movie nd really don't want to pay it off.
Every time I walk into Bluckbuster, I feel like I've been transported back to the 1990s...
I saw this coming. 3 of the movie places around me have or are shutting down because of Netflix, or just buying their DVD's.
...
meanwhile banks get even more richer
the cycle of endless loaning continues
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