Blockbuster Deceptive Practice

[kodiak77]

If you are a member of BB mail in service & have noticed a slowdown in delivery of your movies you might like to know about a new policy they have started called throttling. The way it works is once you get 10 movies they will begin to slow down deliveries regardless of how many you pay for each month. Not only that they are going to raise prices again on what you do get. This is fraud & a deceptive practice that everyone should know about. My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.

[SL_600]

....My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.I don't think that will hold up in a court of law.

[zooworker]

If you are a member of BB mail in service & have noticed a slowdown in delivery of your movies you might like to know about a new policy they have started called throttling. The way it works is once you get 10 movies they will begin to slow down deliveries regardless of how many you pay for each month. Not only that they are going to raise prices again on what you do get. This is fraud & a deceptive practice that everyone should know about. My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.
Get a life asshole, that's not true.....And how has said employee found this out, like they would tell him this....

[BBVcasualposter]

kodiak77 another terd that wouldnt flush before his stink filtered upwards.

[Antithesys]

Store employees know no more about the process than customers do.

[The Omen]

Store employees know no more about the process than customers do.

less actually

[Air]

heer iz onlein noombar pleez cawl them haev a nise day

[Thenigerian]

Buh-Buh-Buh Benny and the Bullshets.

[zooworker]

And one time
I had a friend at Blockbuster
That knew everything............:rolleyes:

[The Omen]

And one time
I had a friend at Blockbuster
That knew everything............:rolleyes:

actually Zoo, you are my friend at BBV that knows everything

[HardcoreKeith]

Deceptive practice: I hear they charge you more for DVDs than they actually cost the company!

And did you know that they rent out the SAME copy of a rental to MULTIPLE people?

[Thenigerian]

Deceptive practice: I hear they charge you more for DVDs than they actually cost the company!

And did you know that they rent out the SAME copy of a rental to MULTIPLE people?

NO. WAY.

Witchcraft, I say. Witchcraft.

[PRON MISSILE]

If you are a member of BB mail in service & have noticed a slowdown in delivery of your movies you might like to know about a new policy they have started called throttling. The way it works is once you get 10 movies they will begin to slow down deliveries regardless of how many you pay for each month. Not only that they are going to raise prices again on what you do get. This is fraud & a deceptive practice that everyone should know about. My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.

Chill out. Talk to corporate if you are going to get a big dick about it. The workers at the bottom of the chain never have any say in what "big business ventures" the company heads towards.

[cdman2008]

If you are a member of BB mail in service & have noticed a slowdown in delivery of your movies you might like to know about a new policy they have started called throttling. The way it works is once you get 10 movies they will begin to slow down deliveries regardless of how many you pay for each month. Not only that they are going to raise prices again on what you do get. This is fraud & a deceptive practice that everyone should know about. My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.

doesnt suprise me, netflix did the same thing a couple years back, they even changed there terms of service to include it. i dont know if they still do it or not though.

[wellsj29040]

I always tell customers about shitty things that will effect them in my store. I think some of the things they do are bs. Like taking away BD favorites. Maybe the employees don't know EVERYTHING, but they ones who aren't ALSO trying to con customers know plenty.

[BBVcasualposter]

I always tell customers about shitty things that will effect them in my store. I think some of the things they do are bs. Like taking away BD favorites. Maybe the employees don't know EVERYTHING, but they ones who aren't ALSO trying to con customers know plenty.

My guess is you'll be job hunting soon.

[Aphrodite]

If you are a member of BB mail in service & have noticed a slowdown in delivery of your movies you might like to know about a new policy they have started called throttling. The way it works is once you get 10 movies they will begin to slow down deliveries regardless of how many you pay for each month. Not only that they are going to raise prices again on what you do get. This is fraud & a deceptive practice that everyone should know about. My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.

A new policy? This idea is so old its got cobwebs. It was being posted about when I first joined this forum :rolleyes:

Oh well, at least its not another thread about cutting hours...

Deceptive practice: I hear they charge you more for DVDs than they actually cost the company!

And did you know that they rent out the SAME copy of a rental to MULTIPLE people?

Really? :eek: Scandalous :D

[sar94pga]

A new policy? This idea is so old its got cobwebs. It was being posted about when I first joined this forum :rolleyes:

Oh well, at least its not another thread about cutting hours...



or how many pens your store has...

or the drop box oddities.....

[Aphrodite]

I think zooworker was guilty of that one :eek: :D

[BBVcasualposter]

I'm running out of threads to post meaningless chatter within

[The Omen]

I'm running out of threads to post meaningless chatter within

there are tons of old threads you can bump, try to find one with wicked mistress

[BBVcasualposter]

ive spoken with her in pm, i dont need any rehash of that gerbil pooper

[The Omen]

ive spoken with her in pm, i dont need any rehash of that gerbil pooper

did she PM you in red too? lol

[BBVcasualposter]

did she PM you in red too? lol

let me rephrase that so that anyone of more recent times may understand.

What I meant was that annoying Aborted Gerbil Pooper

[Aphrodite]

RPB was what Heavenly nicked her...

Red
Posting
Bitch

:D

[bvnasty]

although not impossible, that would seem silly... if you even know business basics thats a bad idea without stature.
but i think people said that already.

[BBVcasualposter]

although not impossible, that would seem silly... if you even know business basics thats a bad idea without stature.
but i think people said that already.

Dude, you have failed the n00b rule 4 of 4 posts. Are even you able to comprehend what you are saying?

[redfay]

although not impossible, that would seem silly... if you even know business basics thats a bad idea without stature.
but i think people said that already.

You're talking to the people that run the store, not the online. If you have a problem with the online, call the online support center. I can tell you this much about the online from my personal experience:
1) They send you movies through the mail and you have a monthly payment
2) You can exchange your movies in store, and the store gets like a $1.00 or $1.50... maybe $2 for each coupon
3) No one from the online ever turns in their in-store movies in on time
4) You have an account online

Man... it's like I'm stalking you!! I know all about your blockbuster account!

[BUYMECAR]

2) You can exchange your movies in store, and the store gets like a $1.00 or $1.50... maybe $2 for each coupon


do stores actually get revenue from online mailer exchanges? it sounds fair to stores, but i kinda doubt they do.

[redfay]

Yeah we do, it's like a dollar or so, and that's best benefit for the store.

[zooworker]

Yeah we do, it's like a dollar or so, and that's best benefit for the store.
When did they start this up again? They haven't paid the stores anything in a long time.

[redfay]

Really?? I left BB in 2006 and came back in last November, I thought they continued it.

Nvm!! Just kidding!

[BUYMECAR]

yeah my SM and i had several talks about this kind of stuff. stores haven't been getting paid for in-store transactions. hell, our stuffed toy machine is making some real dough but we haven't got any of the proceeds. apparently, the checks get sent to blockbuster.

whenever the machine technician dude comes in now, i give him the same sideways look my SM gave him.

[DanPBlockbuster]

the topic starter was referring to an email that was sent internally to all managers in store several months back to inform them of why customers would be addressing them with complaints about slow online response time (granted the time we all got an internal email stating to "Ignore the protestors" it had no information as to WHY! there would be protestors)
the change was not documented to customers in any way, the email was , at that time, labeled confidential, and it was done to make sure that new users would have a good experience where as the ones who "make full use" of the program would no longer cost the company money by seeing every movie at about 50 cents per movie watched or less. same reason that the lovely ceo jim keyes who took over about a year ago now stopped almost all advertising on blockbuster online, removed all references from the stores (remember those little inserts in the dvd covers, yeah, we had to remove all of them) and just let it slowly fade into oblivion, it was costing the company more money than it was making and he wanted to shut it down.

[redfay]

the topic starter was referring to an email that was sent internally to all managers in store several months back to inform them of why customers would be addressing them with complaints about slow online response time (granted the time we all got an internal email stating to "Ignore the protestors" it had no information as to WHY! there would be protestors)
the change was not documented to customers in any way, the email was , at that time, labeled confidential, and it was done to make sure that new users would have a good experience where as the ones who "make full use" of the program would no longer cost the company money by seeing every movie at about 50 cents per movie watched or less. same reason that the lovely ceo jim keyes who took over about a year ago now stopped almost all advertising on blockbuster online, removed all references from the stores (remember those little inserts in the dvd covers, yeah, we had to remove all of them) and just let it slowly fade into oblivion, it was costing the company more money than it was making and he wanted to shut it down.


You know way to much and that's scary.

Especially about the online.

[Creetar]

I have noticed a huge difference in the time for my movies to turn around. When I reactivated my BBO account. I got a turn around time of 3 days. One day to receive watch it take it to the store, the next day my new movie is sent out and I receive it the third day. Now I am on a 4-5 day rotation. I am not one of those people that holds on to a movie. Every day i walk to get my daughter from day care. I then take the movie I watched the night before to the store, both the in store rental plus the one I got in the mail. It was something to bide my time as I wait for my new movies to come.

I will be going to netflix I think. This is absolutely ridiculous.

I am also suprised at how many employees are on this site. One would think it would be against complany policy.

[Xxsp311B0undxx]

I hate that blockbuster is able to exhange online rentals for in store rentals free,
they should just be discounted all of them!!! Because than none of the stores are going to make money this way!!!!! even if they did change it, than we would loose customers becasue BBV is changing something that convenienced them! honestly... bad move on corporates part on trying to get revenue for the company! even thought customers do pay monthly... how will stores make money when the world gets lazy and does not want to leave their houses anymore to rent??????????????????

[kutuup]

If you are a member of BB mail in service & have noticed a slowdown in delivery of your movies you might like to know about a new policy they have started called throttling. The way it works is once you get 10 movies they will begin to slow down deliveries regardless of how many you pay for each month. Not only that they are going to raise prices again on what you do get. This is fraud & a deceptive practice that everyone should know about. My source for this info comes from an employee at a company owned store.

I don't think that counts as fraud... or deceptive practice for that matter. Unless they specifically promise a certain delivery time on the movies. Not that any of that matters since the movies sent through that service use a flat rate mailing option which is not paid per send-out. If delivery is slowing down I'd look to the delivery service rather than BBI

[BBVcasualposter]

I don't think that counts as fraud... or deceptive practice for that matter. Unless they specifically promise a certain delivery time on the movies. Not that any of that matters since the movies sent through that service use a flat rate mailing option which is not paid per send-out. If delivery is slowing down I'd look to the delivery service rather than BBI


Are you freaking kidding me you tool bringing up and replying to a year old thread. Stooge