There are far too many people, myself included, who just on the spur of the moment decide, "Hey, let's get a movie!" That spontaneity just doesn't work with online rentals. By the time the movie gets to you in a few days, your friends have all gone home. Well, unless it was one helluva party.
Until the human race loses the capability for spontaneous adventure, movie rental retail outlets will survive just fine.
No I doubt every single store will go poof and no longer exsist. But there could be many stores that do go under because the majority of customer now go online to do their rentals leaving the local stores out of the loop and the profits.
I also do not think stores will become obsolete. A lot of people, my self included, are afraid to give credit card numbers over the internet. I prefer to go to Blockbusters because, if I'm in the mood to see a movie, I want to see it now, not wait-even a day- and get it and hope it works!! I know of 15 ppl who have said that more than 5 times from netflix their DVD's haven't worked. (I have a big family) Just go to the store and rent it, you get plenty of days to watch it and if YOU cant be responsible enough to give it back when its due, thats something YOU have to deal with. Think about it, if someone borrowed something from you wouldn't you want it back sooner than later?
I read a review about them not to long ago where the person who was registered with NetFlix received scratched disc, dirty disc and damaged disc and slow service.
Am not sure if posting a link to another site is ok so I won't but that review game NetFlix a horrible review. They had compared the service to blockbusters service and gamefly and another.
NetFlix just made these comments today because they are afraid and as for wal-mart hardly anyone I know knew that wal-mart had a rental service.
Yeah, I've received a scratched or broken disk from Netflix, but do you really think the scratches are from Netflix, or the twits that abuse them while they have them on loan? Do you really think NetFlix breaks them and then puts them in the mail, or do you think the occasional disc get's damaged by the US Postal Service in shipping. I get my discs the day after they ship, so they are fast, maybe the person who thinks they're slow lives in a remote area where there's no close-by distribution center. Some people seem to have a very uninformed and blatantly stupid reason for knocking NetFlix. One noisy grumbler does not make hundreds of quiety-becuase-they're-happy customers non-existent. Let's take a common sense approach to what we read in the media and on the internet and be silly enough to think one negative article by some bone-head with an axe to grind speaks for the majority of the public at large. Netflix is a leader, Blockbuster is a follower, and it will always be that way. Now if we can just get the DVD's to self-destruct and take the careless slobs mishandling them with them, we'll elimate the scratched DVD problem too!
Honestly.. when was the last time you heard anyone say.. "I have that on my WALMART/BLOCKBUSTER" list? Yeah, I didnt think so.
Netflix has quick shipping and receiving and a fantastic selection.. so until I see a lapse in support.. Im not going to bother swithing services.. just to save a buck or two.
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Until the human race loses the capability for spontaneous adventure, movie rental retail outlets will survive just fine.
Am not sure if posting a link to another site is ok so I won't but that review game NetFlix a horrible review. They had compared the service to blockbusters service and gamefly and another.
NetFlix just made these comments today because they are afraid and as for wal-mart hardly anyone I know knew that wal-mart had a rental service.
Now if we can just get the DVD's to self-destruct and take the careless slobs mishandling them with them, we'll elimate the scratched DVD problem too!
Netflix has quick shipping and receiving and a fantastic selection.. so until I see a lapse in support.. Im not going to bother swithing services.. just to save a buck or two.