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Blockbuster's Offensive Against Netflix Flops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday December 25, 2005 @12:27PM from the can't-stop-the-wheel-from-turning dept.

bigtallmofo writes "With over four million subscribers, Netflix was an obvious target for rival Blockbuster. In 2005, target them they did. Introducing their own DVD-by-mail service and (for a while) undercutting Netflix's price point, Blockbuster went for the jugular. A year later Netflix shows a market value of $1.5 billion with no debt compared to Blockbuster's $684 million worth with $1.0 billion in debt. Is there still a DVD-by-mail war or has Netflix won?"

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Re:They each have thier own issues to deal with... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-25 14:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I love it when people talk about business models like they're really in a position to understand or compare them let alone explain them.
The giveaway was, "this impacts a lot of things I won't iterate" which is bullshit artist code for "this impacts a lot of things I can't really understand but you could imagine how they impact things, right?"