Blockbuster: No Late Fees
What a giant load of shit. Those of you who’ve rented from Blockbuster lately might know what I’m referring to. Yes, there are no longer late fees, but Blockbuster did introduce something called a “Re-stocking Fee“. You are charged this new re-stocking fee if you don’t return your movie or game within a week of the initial due date. Basically, it’s a late fee under a different name.
The really shitty thing is that they also seem to have jacked up the price for rentals. New release movies are just under $6 to rent while XBox 360, PS3, and Wii games are almost 10 fucking dollars per rental. That’s absolutely ridiculous. Every video game is now a huge cash cow for them; they rent it out 3 times and they’ve made their money back on it already. That, of course, is assuming they get these games for a far cheaper rate than us consumers; which I’m pretty sure they do.
Fine. In that case, any time I rent a video game I’ll be sure to keep it for as long as possible just to get my money’s worth. They give you that extra 8 days past the due date and then they start calling you. But you get another 30 days after that to return it before you are forced to ‘purchase’ the game at the retail price. That means you can keep it 38 days past the due date and only get charged the $1.75 re-stocking fee. Now that sounds like a good fucking deal to me.
Posted by Frank N. Stein
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Blockbuster is useless. I use Netflix and for awhile have thought of using a similar service that rents out games. Can’t think of the place at the moment. I’m also doing the same thing with paperback books.
I keep hearing about that Netflix thing. I might have to look into it, soon; just hope it’s available for Canadians. Something like that for video games would be wicked.