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Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com)
Cutting_Crew writes: After the last remaining Blockbuster Video store closed in Australia on March 31st, there is only one remaining left on earth. That location is in Bend, Oregon and seems to be a thriving location, where they write out membership cards by hand and the system is rebooted using floppy disks, apparently only something one person, the general manager, knows how to do. If you are wondering how there could be still blockbuster videos open since they went bankrupt back in 2010, the remaining stores left open were independent franchises and were separate from most of the other corporate stores, thus not part of the bankruptcy. There was also an Onion video before they even went bankrupt that's pretty funny. I remember getting a membership way back in late 90s and new releases were $8 per night. Even then, that seemed way too expensive. What are your most memorable (good or bad) memories of your local blockbuster?
Oregon has too many SJWs now. Whole west coast needs to be nuked and started over at this point.
No doubt half the magic was hearing good music in the 90s. .. *shit music for an hour*
I remember when I was a kid I put a blank tape in the radio by my BBS computer and it took over a week to catch them playing Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box even though it was the hot shit of the moment.
It didn't stop them from "This is K-RADIO-STATION MUSIC: *best 3 seconds of good song*... *best 3 seconds of good song*...*best 3 seconds of good song*... kicking off another 30 minute ad-free ROCK-BLOCK!!!!
So let me tell how your cool story actually reads:
Similar late fee problem here -- except it was for a movie that had been rented (and forgotten). Returned it weeks before and finally wanted a new rental
I was irresponsible and failed to honor my obligations as set forth in the rental agreement. I put my late return in the box and hoped I'd get away with it. Even though I really should have known better; because its not like they don't track these things..
The late fees came to something like $96. I laughed at them and offered to buy the movie instead ($40 range). They declined. They wanted their ridiculous late fees.
I don't understand anything about how the licensing works for commercial video rental media or the profit model the video rental industry operated on at the time. My ignorance is so cool right guys?
The conversation got a bit heated (me :) and they reminded me they had my credit card on file and would just charge it anyway.
I threw a tantrum but the clerk in the store remained clam and did his job like a professional.
I declined. Excused myself to "think about it" and go find another movie to rent (not). Went to the back of the store, called the bank, and cancelled the card in question.
Rather than accept and pay the debt I legitimately incurred; I moved to skip out on the bill. Also I stupid because the fact is they still have my name and address and they could easily slam my credit and send the debt to collections. Which would and very well may have cost me a lot more than $96 in long run..
Handed them my non-rentals on the way out the door (why should I put them back?). Let them know as I was passing to go ahead and close the account and "good luck" getting any charges through. They were bankrupt within a year.
I continued to behave like a dick, and probably only avoided debt collections and negative credit report issues because the company was already struggling and probably short staffed. Thanks at least in a very small part to my shitty behavior a business owner lost their franchise. Yeah! me!
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Still it's fundamentally punitive because any competent business owner who's lent out a movie, could be making $30 a week on it, and hasn't got it back would surely buy another copy. Nobody with any sense would willingly forgo that opportunity cost, just because they might make it back in fines later.
I'm pretty sure we've been sitting on the same set of netflix dvds since before our kid was born. Has netflix really left some poor sucker waiting 6 years to borrow this discs after I'm done? I doubt it.