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Originally Posted by hawaiiboy and are $29.99

Thanks Hawaii boy Im assuming no offense to you but at the store I called they just want me in there to pitch offers...

Any price drops on previewed blurays yet ($9.99)? The last ones I bought were cars 2, crazy stupid love, green lantern, and horrible bosses, but those were ones BBV had to go out and buy from retailers to have rental copies.

No price drops yet as there hasn't been one in eons. Bbv is moving their headquarters to CO so everything is all screwed up right now. Peoples online stuff are not being sent out in a timely manner, stores arent getting the info they should be. What a mess.

Whatever stores are left are undergoing major changes as they are all set up with dish in the store, broadband service is finally being installed and iPads are being set up to somehow go along with dish. Not sure how they tie in together but u should see them in stores soon. They have also opened some new smaller stores in Texas from what I hear and many more are on the way supposedly. Looks like they want to close most if not all existing stores as I also heard that 300-350 more stores are in the process of closing.

Originally Posted by hawaiiboy No price drops yet as there hasn't been one in eons. Bbv is moving their headquarters to CO so everything is all screwed up right now. Peoples online stuff are not being sent out in a timely manner, stores arent getting the info they should be. What a mess.

Thanks HB! I'm assuming this is why my next movie hasnt been sent or even why the last one I turned in hadn't been acknowledged in over a week now.

Originally Posted by hawaiiboy Looks like they want to close most if not all existing stores as I also heard that 300-350 more stores are in the process of closing.

Like i said a month or two ago, bbv isnt going to survive the summer. I cant beleave mine is still up and running

Me either. My closest one just had a Dish Network truck out in front of it last week the one day. Hopefully that means that they're converting that one to include the DN area, but that it won't completely take over the store.

When the front of the store says that rental's going to stop on a certain day and the dvds are going to go to an outlet center, that means the store is closing out right?

Originally Posted by btown201 When the front of the store says that rental's going to stop on a certain day and the dvds are going to go to an outlet center, that means the store is closing out right?

Sounds like your store is closing. But I don't know...with the management decisions that have been made during the last year, anything is possible.

Man, it's like being aboard the Titanic in here, lol. Sadly, I haven't been to a BBV in almost two years now. There aren't any at all within an hour of Nashvillle. It's just crazy thinking back to the "glory days". I didn't get in on the gravy train as early as others, but I remember my first time just completely raping their trade in system fondly. It was one of the "Trade 2 Games Get Any Game for $9.99" promo. What was even more ridiculous was you got the value of games as credit on top of the promotion. That allowed me to pick up RE4 on the Gamecube for free by giving them two crappy sports games (I think I actually had credit left over too), lol.

Oh, BBV. You did this to yourself. I would feel a little bad about it if you hadn't spent the entire time actively trying to make a profit off of me. I was just too smart for you. Even 2-3 summers ago before they killed off the trade in program, it was hilarious to get $30+ for games that GameStop had marked down to $12.99. I know it's nothing compared to some in here, but at one point, I had built up a credit of over $200, and every time I used it, the cashiers' eyes would pop out of their head, hahaha. Man, those were the days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-1b1Yvep8

The only time I was in a Blockbuster this year (or even in a year) was for the Memorial Day "sale" debacle. Didn't buy anything and the selection was crap anyway.

I'm about to take two rentals from the online program in to swap out for something, since it beats waiting for stuff to get here in the mail. I'd like to swap them out for games, but my store only allows $.99 games to be swapped out.
And there aren't any of those there. I did see Dead or Alive 4 for $.99. But I own that.

Agreed with the online problems.

Last night I had a movie that did not play. When I reported it online, it said my account had been flagged for excessive use of reporting a problem. (Not my fault your BD's kept coming to me as cracked...) Whatever... the value to me is the in store exchange...

Last week I returned one in store, and the old one had never cleared the Online queue.

Originally Posted by dinovelvet Yes. Blockbuster stock.

Do they even have their own stock now or were they absorbed into DISH?

Originally Posted by irishsoccermbw Do they even have their own stock now or were they absorbed into DISH?

http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=BLIAQ

I really don't like the name of that stock. Blockbuster liquidating. It kinda points towards the whole company being flushed, if ya ask me.

Originally Posted by n8rockerasu; I would feel a little bad about it if you hadn't spent the entire time actively trying to make a profit off of me.

Yeah! these for profit businesses trying to make a profit!

My store has like 2 years left on its lease and it's a value-priced lease at that. They just received a ton of more stuff (presumably from our distro center that closed) and are in the process of re-arranging with new signs and store layout... can't imagine them wanting to close this store atm.

Originally Posted by JaylisJayP The only time I was in a Blockbuster this year (or even in a year) was for the Memorial Day "sale" debacle. Didn't buy anything and the selection was crap anyway.

I was in about a day before that sale started. I then called back a lil later and asked the manager working if she knew what the terms of it were gonna be yet. Once I found out the new terms from here on CAG I didn't even bother stopping in for the sale and haven't been back yet. A 3/$15 woulda been decent or a higher priced sale with stuff above $15 being allowed woulda got me intrigued enough to stop back. But a standard BOGO or whatever the f it turned out to be that time was annoying compared to that last glorious sale they had.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer I was in about a day before that sale started. I then called back a lil later and asked the manager working if she knew what the terms of it were gonna be yet. Once I found out the new terms from here on CAG I didn't even bother stopping in for the sale and haven't been back yet. A 3/$15 woulda been decent or a higher priced sale with stuff above $15 being allowed woulda got me intrigued enough to stop back. But a standard BOGO or whatever the f it turned out to be that time was annoying compared to that last glorious sale they had.

Come on now they can't always give the store away