I have news for you, it was your kids or kids just like yours who scratched and broke the DVDs. Parents allow children to handle DVDs then they bitch about how messed up the rentals are. If you want a perfect condition DVD for your kids to mess up buy it new.
Fuck you. My kids didn't scratch the DVDs and I don't let me kids scratch them. It is the responsibility of the video store to ensure the merchandise they are renting out is fit for purpose. Not mine and not my kids.
If they find that me or mine have damaged the fucking things they can make me pay for the damage, but to penalise me for other people causing damage is inexcusable and your pathetic attitude enables such arseholes to do whatever they like including rip people off and pass draconian laws.
The reality is DVD rental stores usually do not charge a customer for a DVD they have destroyed. It's impossible to prove whether the DVD was destroyed by the person who just rented it or the person before them, unless they were the first person to rent it. Rental stores don't have time to check each incoming DVD to make sure it still plays perfectly. There's also the fact that some customer's players will play a moderately scratched DVD fine while others choke on a DVD with a speck of dust on it. The only thing the store does is open the case to make sure the correct disc in in there. I know it sucks but thats the way it is. Since they can't charge the customers for damaged returns, they take the loss. Next time you get a disc thats messed up keep that in mind. Also, don't tell me your kids never handled a DVD you rented. I guarantee you've returned a DVD with at least some minor damage caused by you or someone else in your household. It practically impossible not to even with normal handling. DVDs are fragile as hell and easily scratched. Thank god for Blu-Ray hard coating... soon this will be a thing of the past.
Every time a DVD store rents us scratched DVDs I'm going to point out that no one is allowed to back up them up and that the reason that we can't have more is that the DVD store is too busy taking advantage of us to care about whether or not we can actually watch the DVDs (Seriously I just had 5 out of 10 childrens DVDs - weekly movies - scratched to hell and some with cracks on their spindle have major glitches, refuse to play etc and all the DVD store would do is buff the CDs and give the same broken DVDs back - of course they didn't play)
Keep going till you have no customers you greedy cheap exploitative pigs.
I have news for you, it was your kids or kids just like yours who scratched and broke the DVDs. Parents allow children to handle DVDs then they bitch about how messed up the rentals are. If you want a perfect condition DVD for your kids to mess up buy it new.
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I have news for you, it was your kids or kids just like yours who scratched and broke the DVDs. Parents allow children to handle DVDs then they bitch about how messed up the rentals are. If you want a perfect condition DVD for your kids to mess up buy it new.
Fuck you. My kids didn't scratch the DVDs and I don't let me kids scratch them. It is the responsibility of the video store to ensure the merchandise they are renting out is fit for purpose. Not mine and not my kids.
If they find that me or mine have damaged the fucking things they can make me pay for the damage, but to penalise me for other people causing damage is inexcusable and your pathetic attitude enables such arseholes to do whatever they like including rip people off and pass draconian laws.
The reality is DVD rental stores usually do not charge a customer for a DVD they have destroyed. It's impossible to prove whether the DVD was destroyed by the person who just rented it or the person before them, unless they were the first person to rent it. Rental stores don't have time to check each incoming DVD to make sure it still plays perfectly. There's also the fact that some customer's players will play a moderately scratched DVD fine while others choke on a DVD with a speck of dust on it. The only thing the store does is open the case to make sure the correct disc in in there. I know it sucks but thats the way it is. Since they can't charge the customers for damaged returns, they take the loss. Next time you get a disc thats messed up keep that in mind. Also, don't tell me your kids never handled a DVD you rented. I guarantee you've returned a DVD with at least some minor damage caused by you or someone else in your household. It practically impossible not to even with normal handling. DVDs are fragile as hell and easily scratched. Thank god for Blu-Ray hard coating... soon this will be a thing of the past.
Every time a DVD store rents us scratched DVDs I'm going to point out that no one is allowed to back up them up and that the reason that we can't have more is that the DVD store is too busy taking advantage of us to care about whether or not we can actually watch the DVDs (Seriously I just had 5 out of 10 childrens DVDs - weekly movies - scratched to hell and some with cracks on their spindle have major glitches, refuse to play etc and all the DVD store would do is buff the CDs and give the same broken DVDs back - of course they didn't play)
Keep going till you have no customers you greedy cheap exploitative pigs.
I have news for you, it was your kids or kids just like yours who scratched and broke the DVDs. Parents allow children to handle DVDs then they bitch about how messed up the rentals are. If you want a perfect condition DVD for your kids to mess up buy it new.