they'll have time to distribute executive bonuses and hold a "Last Annual" all expenses paid employee beach party in Hawaii before they turn out the lights.

they'll have time to distribute executive bonuses and hold a "Last Annual" all expenses paid employee beach party in Hawaii before they turn out the lights.

hahahaha good riddance Ballbuster Video, just like Wall Street and the music industry you pursued a short-term strategy which investors loved in the short term (s******* video renters with predatory late fees) instead of pursuing long-term initiatives to head off the coming death of the bricks-and-mortar video rental store.

Ballbuster's attempts to compete with Netflix utterly failed. I remember getting enticed to join Blockbuster's DVD-by-mail service... epic fail. And why didn't Ballbuster pursue video kiosks like Redbox?

Over and over again Ballbuster demonstrated that they knew there was no future for their stores yet they could not pursue alternative distribution models in a timely or competent fashion.

one-third of Ballbuster's income came from late fees.

That's a lot of bad will out there among former Ballbuster customers. I know I got tired of getting screwed by them and I became a Netflix customer in part to s**** Ballbuster back. Even when Ballbuster was offering really good deals for their DVD by mail service (coupons for free rentals at their stores), I preferred Netflix because they weren't Ballbuster and offered MUCH better service.

when traveling in Europe I see a fair number of Blockbuster stores in major cities. I wonder how that part of their business is doing. Are Europeans deserting Blockbuster too? I don't think there is a Netflix equivalent in Europe, partly because the mail service there is a lot less reliable and partly because Europeans in general are not as web-centric as Americans are.

Or perhaps they don't have that many stores abroad to make up for their failing US business.

I'ts much better that Netflix. You can actually bring the envelopes to the store and get free movies back. If you exceed the 5 free allotments for that 3 movies program, you can rent the movies at a discount. I believe its 1.99. You get more movies free than Netflix.

Last time I used Blockbuster was when they tried to lure Netflix customers in by giving free rentals if you brought in the address page from your Netflix envelope. They did it twice and I actually have a stack of pages saved just in case they were dumb enough to try a 3rd time.

A few months ago I noticed the local store was empty. I asked when that happened at the store next door. They said a few days ago they just backed up a truck and emptied it out. Was nice of them to move in and run several nice Mom and Pop video stores out of business and then close shop. When my favorite shop closed is when I joined Netflix.

Jeb

No BlockBusters = More Apple TVs

...a well deserve death for s******* all their customers over the years. It's pay up time!

I was at a Movie Stop in Alabama yesterday and they were selling some DVDs from Blockbuster on their 50% off table. I guess I know where JebNY disks are going...