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hunteroftruth11 User ID: 1098860 United States 09/22/2010 08:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Blockbuster.They fucked me on late charges and other bullshit throughout the years.Expensive douchebags.Later assholes,welcome netflix & redbox. Quoting: WinningjobThe problem though is MORE people OUT OF WORK! It simply continues the downward spiral and more people lose their jobs, homes and may go hungry. I know how you feel on a personal level, but working at Blockbuster/Hollywood Video ect, vs. 20 people NOT working as they stare at a kiosk is not good for the economy. Also, in addition to employing people (retail organizations) the IMPULSE buys such as gasoline, soda, popcorn, snacks will continue to go down putting even MORE people out of work. I too have used netflix and redbox, but I would rather see someone employed than have to fight with a machine that can't even figure out how to deal with my Disk that didn't play. Same with groceries and having to BAG your own...now some places ONLY let you bag your own (no cashier after such and such and hour)...WHY should I bag, scan and pay without a discount? ;-) Your right my wife has worked there for 11 years .they have laid people off for two years we,ve made it thought so far I think this could suck for us. |
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giggotee User ID: 1056987 United States 09/22/2010 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who goes to blockbuster anymore? Now you can just download torrents for free and watch whatever the hell you want. Quoting: sum_peepsYEA--like here [link to www.watch-movies.net.in] |
Angela User ID: 979673 Canada 09/22/2010 09:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My friends used to call Blockbuster "Buttbombers" because every time we went into a block buster video we all started farting. It was like some supernatural fart fest EVERY TIME we went in there. They are an evil company and deserve bankruptcy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1095946Are the Canadian branches closing too? I have not heard anything here? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1093915 United States 09/22/2010 09:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Best we all go there and rent shit loads of x box games,films etc,cos they will only end up in the hands of the receivers. Quoting: Rampee72I just gathered up $300 in old blockbuster gift cards on hearing this news. Tomorrow I'll either own half the store or be out $300. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1107165 Canada 09/22/2010 09:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think everyone that is not rich and more than $50,000 in debt should file chapter 7 bankruptcy and wipe the slate clean. Let the banks who have been robbing us with high interest rates take the loss. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1106799That's how a lot of people ARE 'rich' - their lifestyle is entirely leveraged. As Donald Trump once joked - the homeless guy he passed on the street probably had a higher net worth than he did. I'd say anyone with LESS than 50K should have that wiped clean and for the rest, over and above that amount, too fucking bad. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1107165 Canada 09/22/2010 10:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Remember all those local privately owned mom and pop video stores back in the 80s ? We had about a dozen of em within a 10 mile square radius of my home. Once blockbuster came into the picture, everyone of those stores were shut down and had to close shop . They could not compete . Companies like blockbuster actually cause employment figures to go down...and then, after this type of company makes billions of dollars, they claim bankruptcy, and fuk the system again and now the jobs held by smaller mom and pop stores are gone, along with the jobs once available thru blockbuster. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1106541SPOT THE SCAM...SEE THE SCAM...TAKE NOTE OF WHOS RUNNING THE SCAM... AND THEN MAYBE , WE CAN STOP THE WHOLESALE RAPING OF AMERICA. I'm betting within six months of either a sharp rise in interest rates or if China's currency were to ever really soar vs the US Dollar that we'll see the same thing with Walmart. Stop shopping there now folks. Stop it now. Part of the real reason that mom and pop shops go out of business isn't just that they can't compete against the big boys that come into town but because CONSUMERS are so fucking cheap. People will sell out their own country and their own jobs in order to save twenty-five cents on a jar of mayonnaise or buy shoes for ten dollars when they already have fifty pairs and not even see it happening. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1070382 United States 09/22/2010 10:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Blockbuster I'SNT going out of business,It is just like the rest of the big fucking megacorporations...Most of the shares are controlled by Carl Icahn and he has arranged about 160 million dollars in financing so they can restructure and compete with Netflix......Here is the link [link to www.msnbc.msn.com] |
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J.H.F.C. User ID: 889802 United States 09/22/2010 10:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | About a month ago, we wrote about reports that Blockbuster Video would be filing for bankruptcy in mid-September. So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Bloomberg News is reporting that the video chain will be making the filing official on Thursday morning. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1106989read more : [link to consumerist.com] I predicted their demise in 1991. What took them so long? In any case, it certainly would not have a been a "buy and hold" kind of thing. Entertainment is a lot like the Wild Wild West, there is always a faster gun out there who will be gunnin` for ya. What would I have suggested back then for buy and hold? Oil stocks, what else? (But I DIDN'T!) (ps, I've never owned a share of stock in my life, so I'm off the hook.) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 737050 United States 09/22/2010 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | sign of the times Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1106541No, its a sign of the scam known as ' corporate bankruptcy" and how the parasites in charge profit in good times or bad times. This is true. That's why I advocate running personal finances like a business. If your property drops, leave it. Rack up debt and then discharge it. They set the system up, don't let them tell you it's only for them to walk away from their debts. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1098860 United States 09/23/2010 12:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck Blockbuster.They fucked me on late charges and other bullshit throughout the years.Expensive douchebags.Later assholes,welcome netflix & redbox. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1106541The problem though is MORE people OUT OF WORK! It simply continues the downward spiral and more people lose their jobs, homes and may go hungry. I know how you feel on a personal level, but working at Blockbuster/Hollywood Video ect, vs. 20 people NOT working as they stare at a kiosk is not good for the economy. Also, in addition to employing people (retail organizations) the IMPULSE buys such as gasoline, soda, popcorn, snacks will continue to go down putting even MORE people out of work. I too have used netflix and redbox, but I would rather see someone employed than have to fight with a machine that can't even figure out how to deal with my Disk that didn't play. Same with groceries and having to BAG your own...now some places ONLY let you bag your own (no cashier after such and such and hour)...WHY should I bag, scan and pay without a discount? ;-) actually...you got it all wrong... its companys like BLOCKBUSTER thatcame along and put countless people out of work , because it destroyed so many millions of small video stores across the U.S , that were unable to compete with a corrupt powerhouse like blockbuster . my god, how can you people have it so backwards ? and now, because blockbuster is such a parastic mega company, they can file bankruptcy and fuk the system even more... wow..you people r so fucking clueless, you actually might deserve the potential collapse coming your way. IM SERIOUS. Your wrong they put the people to work in there stores when they bought them out. Thats how they did it where i live u don,t no shit your just tring to sound smart and u don,t. |