HeroOfPellinor
Lifer
- Dec 27, 2001
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Blockbuster charges you per movie though. So those three movies will costs you, what $3-4 each, which is almost the Netflix membership fee.
Blockbuster charges you per movie though. So those three movies will costs you, what $3-4 each, which is almost the Netflix membership fee.
Next time you receive some movies, cancel your netflix account and keep the movies for a few movies. See what their late fee is.
Blockbuster has the same deal as netflix. It might cost more but that's irrelavent. If he was doing the moviepass deal then he wouldn't have been popped with restocking fees.
The OP wouldn't have a leg to stand on if Blockbuster wasn't advertising "No Late Fees" all over the place. But, since they are, I completely agree with him.
Dave
True, but Blockbuster doesn't charge you $3-$4 per month for the movies whereas Netflix does. Blockbuster is a one time rental of $4 so of course they can't let you keep it forever b/c they want it back so they can rent to someone else. Netflix is an ongoing charge of $18 per month so they don't care if you keep the same movies for months at a time, saves them shipping.
(unless the OP is talking about the online Blockbuster monthly deal).
I agree it's deceptive.
But, it's not late fees exactly. Late fees are applied each day when a movie is late. They keep going up and up. A restocking fee is if you choose to return it after X number of days. In essence, they are selling you the movie and giving you the money back when you return it. But, if you keep it X days, we're going to keep $1.25 because of the extra work we had to do (charge and reverse, etc.) and lost revenue for the store.
I think the court cases will be interesting. Wouldn't surprise me if the No Late Fees campaign is squashed at some point this year.
- Aug 23, 2003
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Wow, this is the dumbest thread in years. I didn't think it was possible, but the OP seems to be the first Blockbuster patron that is actually dumber than the employee.
You keep the movie past the due date. You didn't read their rental agreement. I hope their collections agency leaves a nice little mark on your credit report that will cost you hundreds on any car/home loan you may have in the future.
Kthxbye.
You keep the movie past the due date. You didn't read their rental agreement. I hope their collections agency leaves a nice little mark on your credit report that will cost you hundreds on any car/home loan you may have in the future.
Kthxbye.
It's a fair system. You have a 1 week grace period on all rental items in the store (2 day and 7 day rentals). Did you ever ask any questions in regards to the program? Or have you checked out the Blockbuster website (which has the policy on their site). In theory, you can hold a 1 week rental for 44 days and pay a $1.25 restocking fee, or a 2 day rental for 39 days with the same fee. How is this a bad deal? How long do you really need to watch a movie? If we let you keep the movies forever, we would have even less stock in the stores than we have now.
The popular question is, "Well why don't you order more stock?" It makes sense, but movie studios and distributors limit how much rental stock they allow video stores to obtain. Stores can't follow a NetFlix or BBV online business model. They'll have thousands of copies of a movie at each distribution center, whereas a store will have probably less than 100 (sometimes a lot less).
The popular question is, "Well why don't you order more stock?" It makes sense, but movie studios and distributors limit how much rental stock they allow video stores to obtain. Stores can't follow a NetFlix or BBV online business model. They'll have thousands of copies of a movie at each distribution center, whereas a store will have probably less than 100 (sometimes a lot less).
StageLeft
No Lifer
- Sep 29, 2000
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Semantics. In its purest form, if I say there is no late fee, then you can return the movie when you're 115 years old, and you will not pay for it. If I give you a certain day you have to bring it back, and you bring it back after that and I charge you, you brought it back late, so it's a late fee.
The OP should have known what he was getting into, but in actuality if BB is saying it has no late fees, and then proceeds to charge him for a movie he brought back past a designated date, it's a late fee, regardless of any technicalities related to restocking, etc.
Now we know where you work!
HeroOfPellinor
Lifer
- Dec 27, 2001
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Good point. If they exlcuded new releases from the no late fee, I'm sure they could let you keep Ghostbusters II or FLight Of The Navigator as long as you wanted.
Let's say I have a movie due on the 20th and I return it on the 30th. If I pay a single dime due to the fact that I returned it "late" then it it a "late fee". (I tend to be rather literal about these things.) How they calculate that amout is irrelevant.
Dave
I agree it's deceptive, but most advertising is. I don't think this will last very long once it gets into some courtrooms.
If I recall correctly 34 state AGs are suing blockbuster over this "no more late fees" nonsense.
Either way..I avoided their late fees (since I knew I would always return late) by joining their montly fee program. Then I can have 2 movies at any time....although, now I've seen everything in the store and need to cancel it. On average, I watch about 35 movies a month. I don't mind paying a little less that $1.00 per movie in that aspect vs. $4.00 per rental.
It is impossible for me to get latefees.
It is impossible for me to get latefees.
spacejamz
Lifer
- Mar 31, 2003
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Where in this example is it the movie being returned late? It was not 'DUE' back on the 30th. That is the whole point to this No Late Fee campaign.
you can now keep a NEW movie that previously had be to returned in 2 days for 7 days....is that not good enough???
what else do these people want? why don't they ask them to give them the movie for $4...maybe that is what they really wanted in the first place...
Dude, you must not have read the fine print. We don't even have that deal in town here and yet I knew there was a restocking fee after a week after your due date. It was never kept a secret that this fee was there. If you had simply read the fine print, you would have known. And its only 5$ THOSE BASTARDS!! Sheeze, why don't you sue them like they did in NJ.
StageLeft
No Lifer
- Sep 29, 2000
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Simply, if I rent a movie on the 1st, and returning it on the 20th results in cost to me, it was late, and thus it incurred a late fee. How you want to weasle around the definition of it with plays on words doesn't really matter, because the reality is still that it was late
You must be a BB attorney while i know the BB policy, your average joe might not thanks to the deceptive "no more late fees" ad campaign. until they have some "we have restocking fees though" commercials, im gonna side with the OP.
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