The last days of Blockbuster.

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
What people don't get is that it doesn't matter if one or two stores do well, or if your local store is "always packed", they are LOSING MONEY, hand over fist. They used to make a lot of money off late fees, no more. Every copy of a new movie that they buy to rent costs them almost $100, sometimes more, and then they have to turn around and rent it 60-100 times just to break even on that individual tape. That doesn't leave a lot of room for profits, expenses, all that.

Individual stores may be doing alright, but as a whole the company is dying, and if the company goes under, the stores will all close up, no matter how well they seem to be doing.

They don't pay $100 per DVD, where do you get these numbers from? Thin air?

 

[BillyBatson]

i liek blockbuster, i would never do the mail rental programs

 

[Paulson]

Their mail service is actually really good... I've got the blockbuster online deal and it's really good, no real problems with it so far...

 

[JS80]

The last days of Blockbuster was about 6 months ago.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Redbox > Blockbuster