Slashdot Mirror
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?
My wife and I went to rent a video, and they charged us a $20 late fee for a game we did not recall renting. We paid it.
It turned out that nobody in our family had rented that video. I went back, and found out they had rented it to someone on a day & time when both my wife and I were at work. (The kids weren't old enough to drive yet).
So, they agreed that it was a "mistake," and offered to credit my account...
I said, "No, you took cash out of my wallet, and now you need to give me the cash back out of the register. If you don't, everyone behind me will be stuck in line here until you do."
Got the cash back.