Is this true? or a two faced promotion? Blockbuster was the ultimate worst when it came to late fee's, sending out post cards and getting bill collectors involved. Can I rent movies and return when I please now?
If you don't bring it back a week after it's due, they charge you for the movie. If you bring it back after that, your card get creditted back for the movie price minus a restocking fee. So you get another 6 days past the due date to return it at no extra cost.
From what I hear, you get an extra week or so as a "grace period". (of course, everyone will automatically "process" this mentally and add it on to the amount of time they have with the movie) Then they sell it to you, whether you want it or not. I heard that they will take it back after that for a "restocking fee". Scary. Especially for those of us who forget movies all the time.
I have been using the Blockbuster online deal and have been very good about watching it and throwing it in the mail right after. I have a bunch of movies waiting in my quew and they ship them to me and it takes a day....cool. NO Late fees anymore.
Guy at Blockbuster told me that the restocking fee is only $1.25. You have up to 1 month to return the movie after you've "purchased it" (so 1 month, 2 weeks after initial rental) for full credit, minus restocking fee.
After receiving numerous cards from a credit collector for a movie I turned in 3 months beforehand to BB, I turned my movie renting skills to Netflix. Me now love Netflix longtime.
I've been using it too but I've received poor service at best from them. It takes over a week to turn a movie around for them to a place that is 1 mail day away. There is no way that it should take them more than 4 days to turn a movie. 1 day to ship. 1 day to process the incoming, 1 day to process the out going, 1 day to ship. I've complained x times but was given the it's not us it's the Post Office. Yea - It was the Post Office who "lost" all 3 movies last month, but you reported all 3 movies back 3 days later. It was the Post Office who sent duplicates of a movie instead of 3 different movies from the queue. It was the Post Office who sent duplicates of the movie they should have sent when the above problem was reported. I've used the Post Office for years and I've never had the consistant problems the BB is displaying. I now just report the movies as returned (under dvd issues) 3 days after I've sent them back to get them to ship the next movies to me 3 days later. That's the ONLY way I can get movies every weekend. Believe it or not that was the solution they gave me to overcome the "Post Office" problems. My sons like to rent video games and if it weren't for the 2 free game/movie coupons they give per month I'd switch to Netflix. But my patience is thinning. Oh - and today is my 1 month anniversary with them.
I have never had a problem and I average 6 movies a week. Netflix screwed me once and I switched over.
honestly though... do you know what 2 game rentals cost these days? right about $14.49. (it's 12.99 where I am) so not much to complain about for me.
I'm using the Blockbuster online free trail, and it's way slower than Netflex, I have sent my movie for 2 days ago and they still haven't get it (I live in Dallas, and the return address is in Dallas too). Netflex have shorter waiting list, you rarely have to wait for any movie, old and new. So after the free trail is over, I'm switching back to Netflex.
I've been using bb for about a month. I live outside of Houston and rarely have more than a 2-3 day turn around. I snet movies back yesterday and already have the confirmation that they were received. ther eis a good chance I'll have at least one movie tomorrow and all three by Thursday. I have been totally pleased with the service.
I keep hoping that they fix the "Post Office" problems because this does save me $12 (game rental) + $3 (NetFlix diff), but there will come a day soon (1 more month) that if they don't fix the "PO" problems - I'm switching over.
I have both Netflix and Blockbuster. I find that lately Blockbuster online has been better at having new movies in (such as Sky Captain, Alien Vs. Predator, The Village, etc.), whereas many of the newest releases on Net Flix have been long wait or very long wait. I do like having the 2 free in-store rentals per month from BB. Overall I'd rate Netflix higher because they seem to check movies in and ship out the next available on your queue faster than BB.
To tell the whole side I agree that I find that true too. From the few movies I have received, I've never had a movie skipped in my queue even though it is a new release and said short wait.
I hear good things about Netflix. Seems to be worth it if you 1) have a DVD player, and 2) watch several movies a month. (believe it or not, there are some of us whom neither of the above applies to. poor and busy teacher. In fact, when I rent stuff lately it's because I'm going to show it in class...)
