Does Blockbuster still do the “In stock or it’s free” thing at their stores?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been a Blockbuster Online member pretty much since they started the service.\u00c2\u00a0 I went through the growing pains with them.\u00c2\u00a0 It was actually fun sometimes to see what distribution center my movie was going to be returned to – it changed with almost every movie it seemed.\u00c2\u00a0 Then they became a little more popular and movies weren’t as readily available… that was ok though, because I still got the in-store coupons.<\/p>\n
But now I’m getting frustrated.<\/p>\n
First they keep jacking up the price.\u00c2\u00a0 Usually not by a lot, but I think when I started it was like $12\/month now it’s $20.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I can’t really complain … I can still exchange movies in the store as often as I’d like and I get two coupons every month for a free movie or game rental.\u00c2\u00a0 All the new customers don’t get them at all I think.\u00c2\u00a0 But the trigger for this outburst is their Blu-ray support.\u00c2\u00a0 I was excited when they announced they were going to be exclusively Blu-ray.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides helping to end the format war, I hoped this meant they would have better stock.\u00c2\u00a0 Nope.\u00c2\u00a0 The top 15 movies in my queue are all Blu-ray and every single one is “Long Wait” or “Very Long Wait” … I might go complain.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll just send me an extra coupon for this month (which I hardly use the two I get anyway)\u00c2\u00a0 They do seem to listen to their customers though.\u00c2\u00a0 A few weeks ago I sent a suggestion to let me choose a default format (as it is now you have to click on the movie, then click on all editions, then find the blu-ray version if it exists) they wrote back and said “Great idea!”\u00c2\u00a0 I just noticed it in the FAQ section that it will be a feature ‘soon’ … guess I wasn’t the only one!<\/p>\n
So yeah … all that just to complain and show my impatience \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Does Blockbuster still do the “In stock or it’s free” thing at their stores?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been a Blockbuster Online member pretty much since they started the service.\u00c2\u00a0 I went through the growing pains with them.\u00c2\u00a0 It was actually fun sometimes … Continue reading