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  • I still like Blockbuster, but they suck today

    I'm just going to get this over quickly cos I'm pissed off.

    Last week I rented a movie and it wouldn't play - my DVD player wouldn't even recognize there was a DVD. So I took it back to my local store, and reported online that the DVD was unplayable. Cool, normally they send me a replacement ASAP, and this time was no different - I got the replacement 2 days later.

    They sent me the same *&^%^#%$^% DVD, didn't they. @#*&@#$*#@^$@#*&^$

    That'll teach me to take it back to the store. I suspect that they don't take their customers word for it when a DVD is reported unplayable. I bet that they keep sending it out until they've annoyed 3 or 4 people and then they bin it. After all, one person's DVD player could be at fault, right?

    Yeah, I understand the business logic here, but it looks bloody stupid when you send the same broken DVD back to the guy reporting it.

    This time I'm keeping the movie until I get the replacement.

    Oh, I didn't tell you the best part - when I went to rant at their customer service dept their contact form crashed. Perhaps I used too many expletives.

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    Posted: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:25 PM by James
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    Comments

    Dave Burke said:

    I'm sorry, James, but that is TOO FUNNY!!!! Thanks for the laughs. Hope you get a playable DVD next time. :-)
    # January 15, 2007 10:34 AM

    PK said:

    I actually stopped reading your blog after you didn't have the brass to publish follow up comments I made that you didn't agree with (about Netflix). I just came by today to see if you had read about (and hence commented) on this news: http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=871. Glad to hear you're enjoying your Blockbuster account...

    # January 16, 2007 10:18 AM

    James said:

    *sigh* and yet you did come back. I have no idea what comment I didn't publish of yours - there are two on http://britishinside.com/archive/2006/11/09/Die-Netlfix.aspx - I normally publish all comments, even bizarrely aggressive ones. I'm not even slightly interested in downloading movies, whoever does it. Nor are you wrong for preferring Netflix! It's a DVD rental service, not a religious war.

    # January 17, 2007 6:14 AM

    Tiny said:

    as a blockbuster employee let me explain ya something about defective dvds. yea, some are messed up and wont play. but so many people say its messed up cause they didnt like it or they damage it themselves. then sometimes the way the DVD is made has conflicts with the DVD player and no disc of a particular movie will play.
    # February 10, 2007 8:00 PM

    ASPInsiders said:

    I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest

    # November 4, 2007 8:42 AM
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