New Offer to Continue DVDs by Mail (Blockbuster @HOME)
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Yes, for the blockbuster by mail plan that does suck. For that same $9.99 you can get a pretty good value from Netflix with their 1 disc plan including blu-ray. It is $7.99 if you just want DVDs. For that $10 I can get a movie on Monday send it back on Tuesday and have another one by Wednesday repeat the process and have another one by Friday. I could probably watch and send back 3 or 4 movies in the same time blockbuster would turn around 1.
Now that TV channels are no longer included there really is no reason to pay the same price for blockbuster as a blu-ray plan from Netflix. Their stock is much better and they are ridiculously quick on the turnaround time. Blockbuster would have to be $5 or less for me to even consider them again and even then I would probably stick with Netflix.
How does $2/mo sound to you?
BTW - Super Buddies is at the top of my BB queue right now. This movie is not even available as a search item on Netflix; I don't know why.How does $2/mo sound to you?
$2 per month sounds great. Too bad that only lasts for 2 months though. Listen, I used BB by Mail before Dish even bought them to get around the 28 day window that used to be common with Netflix. The fact that I could exchange at my local store was great too. Then Dish bought them, their available stock on new releases shrunk to nothing, their turn around time kept getting worse, and they closed my local store so I could no longer make exchanges.
Once they closed my store I canceled my account because I couldn't justify paying the same price as Netflix for a product that was so inferior. That 28 day window isn't common anymore either. The thing is I would probably still get new releases from Netflix before BB even if they did have a 28 day window because BB has no stock.
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And a day after I rejoined for $2/mo (for two months) they shipped Super Buddies. My daughter will be pleased.
This was well worth $2 already.We actually let customers keep their last disc as a sort of "goodwill" gesture since we were abruptly discontinuing the service.
Most people don't have any use for a movie after they watch it unless it is a great movie. Only 1 out of 200 or so are that great. So, I threw the disc BB sent me in the trash after watching it or sleeping thru it, since it was not a great movie.
Indeed. I got nothing since BB never shipped me a "last disk" before they folded. When still operating, they shipped disks to me maybe once/month.
Moving this thread to the DISH Network area, as the movies at home has been continued by Blockbuster.
Thank you Scott!
It's not going so well, to be frank. I've been a subscriber now for a month. After joining and getting my first DVD by mail rather quickly, I have subsequently gotten nothing. This was almost as bad as the old BB@home service where I was lucky to get one disk/mo. This situation was only sufferable for as long as it was because I had an actual store within 1mi of my home, and I could exchange old/uninteresting disks for new releases. But my store was closed on Apr 30th, and now I have no store anywhere near me. :rant:
It's not going so well, to be frank. I've been a subscriber now for a month. After joining and getting my first DVD by mail rather quickly, I have subsequently gotten nothing.
This was almost as bad as the old BB@home service where I was lucky to get one disk/mo. This situation was only sufferable for as long as it was because I had an actual store within 1mi of my home, and I could exchange old/uninteresting disks for new releases. But my store was closed on Apr 30th, and now I have no store anywhere near me. :rant:
I posted that on Sept 26. Looks like they won't automatically charge me for the last remaining 3 weeks of Blockbuster DVDs by mail. My account says the next bill date is N/A. It also has a banner on the Queue page saying It's Not Too Late to come back to Blockbuster today. (It seems they ended my subscription a few days early.)
So, this offer did go fairly well. I got two months at $2.02/mo, which isn't bad for the 4 disks I got to watch including one that's not even available on Netflix. I had one accident and got the same disk from both Blockbuster and Netflix. (Blockbuster's copy came first, incredibly enough.) Too bad they don't ship me one last disk to keep in the remaining (?) 5 days of my subscription.
They should keep you going until the end of your service (?). Surprised they would cut you off with 5 days left.
