Reasons for Boycotting Blockbuster:


1) They are twice as expensive as every other rental place. Even Hollywood Video is cheaper--and you get the movies longer.


2) Every single time we've ever gotten coupons in the mail that say something along the lines of: Any new release is only $1.99 -- Good through October 15 to November 15, 2003 -- and we've been stupid enough to try to use the coupons, it takes half an hour for the employees to stop swiping the coupon through the credit card machine and apply the coupon code instead.


3) The inept employees.


4) When we use rental cards that Discover Card issues for the cashback bonus rewareds---the employees never understand how to redeem the rental passes.


5) Blockbuster used to have a good deal going: They sold Spider-Man on DVD with a 10 week rental pass for only $19.95. So we bought it. From that moment forward, whenever we used the store-issued rental pass, they didn't understand how to redeem it.


6) The last time we went into Blockbuster, we saw a guy take an armload of movies and run out the door.


7) After that happened, the employees just acted as if that happens all the time.


8) Whenever we go into that Blockbuster, half of the movies are dubbed en Español. And it seems like every time we go into the Blockbuster, there are dwindling amounts of English speaking movies.


9) Whenever we go into that Blockbuster, I feel dirty because the floor hasn't been washed and the carpet hasn't been vaccumed in probably 8 years.


10) Whenever we go into that Blockbuster, I keep an extra close grip on my purse. But most of the time I don't even risk it, and leave my purse under the seat of my car because I'm afraid someone might snatch it and run out the door with my purse and an armload of movies.


I'm sure there are more reasons...

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