Forum Posts: 87 | Comment #1 by T0X1C Z0MB1E TZ Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:07:32 AM | |
| NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! |
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Forum Posts: 118 | Comment #2 by Lbrun12415 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:08:30 AM | |
| all the Blockbusters around my area closed, and I'm glad they did, very poor service from all. Even blamed me for breaking a game I didnt even rent |
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Forum Posts: 9 | Comment #3 by Zenka The Myth Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:11:55 AM | |
| This is getting silly now. Where the fuck are we gonna buy games and dvds. |
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Forum Posts: 580 | Comment #4 by _DaNnY_ Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:13:36 AM | |
| #2, That may have just been a crap member of staff - not indicative of the entire company now is it? The lady who runs the Blockbuster near where I live is incredibly helpful and friendly. Depends on your area/circumstances I guess. As long as the online stays open with it's 4 for £20 and 2 for £20 deals I'm not bothered much though. |
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Forum Posts: 1984 | Comment #5 by IEvil IMonkey Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:13:51 AM | |
@2 Yeah Blockbuster are terrible and the staff are the most obnoxious and rude I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with so although it's sad to see people lose their jobs I won't shed a tear for these lot
Their prices where just as bad as HMV anyway and to be honest I can say I don't know a single person who still uses them |
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Forum Posts: 5564 | Comment #6 by Callum x360a Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:15:38 AM | |
@3 - the internet. Though the prices will be better, you'll no longer be able to have a chat with a like-minded gamer in a store about the game you're purchasing. Face time with people is getting increasingly rare.
It's a real shame about Blockbuster. I used to work there, and made some great friends. I still get my employee discount too. :P
Whoever may buy them needs to re-brand them. The movie rental business is dead for high street retailers. They can't compete with online rentals and streams. |
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Forum Posts: 589 | Comment #7 by HorsemanOfWar16 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:17:03 AM | |
It was only a matter of time, with the likes of Netflix and Lovefilm dominating the rental business these days. Not to mention that HMV and Blockbusters are way overpriced, you can get films, cd's and games soo much cheaper online. It's horrible to see so many companies that have been around for ages go down the shitter.
Best bet in my opinion is to drop the retail stores and focus on keeping it a digital (online) focused business.:)
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Forum Posts: 9 | Comment #8 by Zenka The Myth Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:19:02 AM | |
| @6 I do buy them from the internet, but what with Gamestation gone, Play practically closing down HMV on the edge and now this it's getting harder and harder. |
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Forum Posts: 643 | Comment #9 by Stormy2k Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:22:10 AM | |
We're in an age where people shop online instead of going into shops because its cheaper.
I think high street retailers who offer Films, Games or Music now need to make the transgression to selling online only.
Companies like HMV, Blockbuster or GAME have high prices due to the fact that they need to make money back on having couriers deliver goods to the stores (paying Lynx/DHL/UPS or whoever to deliver) and also paying back the advances they had on buying games wholesale from publishers.
If they went with selling online only, they would save money just just cutting out delivery to shops and would only need to focus on postage via Royal Mail or another postal service.
That's why the websites prices are cheaper than their shops.
Media as a whole has become obsolete in shops now as people turn to the internet for cheap goods to your door, quick and convenient.
Soon the high streets will be just supermarkets, clothes shops and pubs.
Sad but true.
Then again, I have only used Blockbuster a handful of times, ShopTo all the way for me.
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Forum Posts: 643 | Comment #10 by Stormy2k Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:24:22 AM | |
| Also what with Netflix and LoveFilm now making an impact by streaming to a console/computer or delivered to your door, renting a hard copy is obsolete too. |
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Forum Posts: 12 | Comment #11 by CornishMessiah Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:28:00 AM | |
| They were still going, wow! ah the good old days of the 90s VCR rentals |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #12 by King LA Raider Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:38:51 AM | |
| Online shopping and Digital Downloading is to blame for all of this. |
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Forum Posts: 849 | Comment #13 by TRICKY1976 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:38:53 AM | |
| HMV was getting very expensive for its games and DVDs anyway not surprised they are in trouble!! Blockbuster is rubbish customer service was poor and everytime i rang my local to enquire about a new game or DVD they never had it in stock so good riddance!! |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #14 by Jordany94 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:42:31 AM | |
| I must say blockbuster staff at my local store have been nothing but helpful every week me and my girlfriend would go in and talk to the staff they were all friendly with us walked us round the store asked what films we like and recommended some good films every time |
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Forum Posts: 400 | Comment #15 by ademlakey Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:43:20 AM | |
| Im surprised blockbuster held on for that long with netflix and lovefilm around. |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #16 by Enlightened 1 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:43:37 AM | |
| Dropping like flies all these retailers martial law anyone? |
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Forum Posts: 118 | Comment #17 by dj jeza Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:44:46 AM | |
| hmv, play.com and blockbuster all in the same month!! |
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Forum Posts: 301 | Comment #18 by Blackest Metal Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:46:14 AM | |
| Blockbuster is the only place in my town that accepted game trade-ins, I used it frequently until about a year ago when the 2nd hand prices got really stupid. £35 preowned for a game I get a 5 mins walk at Asda for £20! No thanks |
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Forum Posts: 303 | Comment #19 by MyRifleIsBroken Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 11:49:29 AM | |
| HMV/Blockbuster in admin, play.com closing to change over to a trading site like ebay, Game/gamestation almost collapsing last year with lots of store closures, Not liking the way that this is heading. I see a very digital future |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #20 by TEQUILA V1 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:14:57 PM | |
| i see a big problem with shops shutting.although the online prices are cheaper now, when there are no shops to compete with, they can drive up the prices and theyll have the monopoly of the market so we will be forced to buy those over priced games.combine this with no shops to trade your old games into, and gaming might become VERY expensive. |
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Forum Posts: 1194 | Comment #21 by UberPirateNinja Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:17:46 PM | |
| blockbuster in my town closed over a year ago, its now a charity shop. sign of the times i suppose |
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Forum Posts: 202 | Comment #22 by Sanchezz4387 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:21:48 PM | |
| oh well, these shops refuse to move on with the times and accommodate their prices to be competitive then they deserve to go into administration. its ultimately inevitable. yep its a travesty for the staff as they are working for morons who don't know how to adapt business models.....shopto, amazon netflix all offer ridiculously better value for money....game hmv and blockbuster offer poor service, poor prices and poor overall quality |
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Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #23 by Wabbit Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:26:19 PM | |
| I've got a one month free rental card with Blockbuster. Guess ill use it soon to get it out if the way before they close. |
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Forum Posts: 1716 | Comment #24 by cheevo360 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:27:50 PM | |
| HMV and Blockbuster is awful in recent of years like GAME did. Well those retailers is shame. Very disappointed with them. I don't again and again to see people losing jobs. Oh gosh!! TOO MUCH IN RECENT YEARS!!! |
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Forum Posts: 1716 | Comment #25 by cheevo360 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:29:55 PM | |
Opps I miss "like" between I don't and again in my last comment.
Edit: HMV and Blockbuster is awful in recent of years like GAME did. Well those retailers is shame. Very disappointed with them. I don't like again and again to see people losing jobs. Oh gosh!! TOO MUCH IN RECENT YEARS!!! |
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Forum Posts: 1716 | Comment #26 by cheevo360 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:32:12 PM | |
| I hope here site will update their site to bring edit for comment section so if myself or other miss type word in sentence or forget or even want change better comment. Just like IGN.com got that. This site should update to bring edit in comment sections. |
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Forum Posts: 163 | Comment #27 by DeadlySinz86 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 12:44:54 PM | |
| These companies were never gonna survive in this economy with their prices. I'm amazed HMV hung in there as long as it did. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #28 by ADTR TOM Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 01:06:50 PM | |
| @5 I don't know where you all live but the one in Preston has some of the nicest staff I've come across, also £1 a day for a game isn't exactly expensive and the actual retail copies were averagely priced. |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #29 by Gusman74 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 01:07:48 PM | |
Its a shame, the world keeps turning but less names on the high street.
Its not nice for those involved and I hope they can move on with their lives .
I rarely buy from high streets as you can always find it cheaper elsewhere, normally online.
Sign of the world today. |
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Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #30 by cockblocker Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 01:09:30 PM | |
| Awful company , clueless staff . |
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Forum Posts: 60 | Comment #31 by The Kingslayer Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 01:22:41 PM | |
| All these stores struggling fincially isn't a surprise but it's still sad to read about, my childhood was filled with trips to Blockbuster,GAME and HMV. I don't want everything to change into digital copies and cloud storage crap, I like owning physical copies ! |
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Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #32 by cockblocker Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 01:33:33 PM | |
| &28 31 quid a months not expensive ? It's fuckin extortion . I get 2 new releases every week from boomarang got 16 quid a month . |
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Forum Posts: 28 | Comment #33 by Ultras500 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 01:52:43 PM | |
| Well as a member of staff at Aberdeen Blockbuster I have a slightly bias opinion, the UK division of Blockbuster has been completely abandoned by the company who owns us Dish, when Dish bought Blockbuster they were given the UK stores for free. We are competitively priced within the high street, we have some things cheaper than game and some more expensive but that is what shopping around is all about. Quite a loss to gamers as well as we are one of the last places where you can rent games but if the staff seem unhappy and rude its because we have constant threat of being fired if we don't sell enough pre-orders etc. |
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Forum Posts: 835 | Comment #34 by gazmaster1 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 02:01:30 PM | |
| It doesn't help that they have so many stores and the problem with that is rent is at an all time high whilst people want goods at the best possible prices. That's why internet sites profit because they don't have the overheads that high street companies have to deal with. |
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Forum Posts: 308 | Comment #35 by Page1992 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 02:04:01 PM | |
| I'd rather have a physical copy of a game so I can either lend it out to freinds, borrow from a friend or trade my own stuff in. I have, Crysis 2, Child of Eden and Alan Wake intstalled to my hard drive as downloaded games from Ebay and in all honesty, I forget that they're saved on my hard drive as I only look at my games shelf to see what I have to play |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #36 by ADTR TOM Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 02:12:49 PM | |
| @32 in place of the £100+ it'd cost to buy them new? Yeah it's pretty reasonable |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #37 by DoctorWatson Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 02:20:31 PM | |
| I loved my 2 for £20....you will be missed. :( |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #38 by DoctorWatson Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 02:22:04 PM | |
| Long live CEX! |
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Forum Posts: 84 | Comment #39 by uneasy ash Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 02:41:48 PM | |
| Pretty soon we shall only be left with Tesco and Asda on the high street...then people will fall into two distinct groups Tescolians and Asdaites, there will be running battles in the streets, skirmishes in the canned goods, trench warfare in the veg aisles and trolley battles in the car park. We're doomed I tell ya. (ok got a little carried away there, oh and Molyneux you can sod off Supermarket skirmish is my idea) |
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Forum Posts: 180 | Comment #40 by Total Shinobi Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 03:20:33 PM | |
| I only used BlockBuster as a way to rent games and use the online passes rather than being ripped off on Online Passes, the staff at my local store was full of rude staff, there was one woman with this amazing ass though, I'll miss her. |
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Forum Posts: 180 | Comment #41 by Total Shinobi Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 03:23:53 PM | |
I only used BlockBuster as a way to rent games and use the online passes rather than being ripped off on buying the Microsoft points to get one, the staff at my local store are all rude bastards, there was one woman with this amazing ass though, I'll miss her.
FIXED :D
@39 - Lol, that was amazing :D |
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Forum Posts: 155 | Comment #42 by boldfoxrd Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 03:37:35 PM | |
I expect WHSmith to be next. This has been such a bad few years but I will really miss having the option to walk into a store to buy things.
I guess I'd better get down there and buy any stock on offer. |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #43 by Aaron36CF Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 03:44:02 PM | |
| It sucks about people losing their jobs, but the prices and customer service that was present at Blockbuster (and, to some extent, HMV) were not competitive at all. I really did expect this once it became public knowledge that Comet had been having problems. |
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Forum Posts: 127 | Comment #44 by spearian Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 06:58:01 PM | |
| Well it's a number of reason as always. But what really doesnt help is damn stupid thick councils charging silly rates for shop rental that no one can really afford. Council CUNTS! |
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Forum Posts: 280 | Comment #45 by ronnie42 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 08:30:48 PM | |
Offline marketing needs to be here, if it wasn't for games in store I would have never known about games in general, the internet is always secure, not everyone wants to wait for dvd's. I personally but most of my dvds from places like hmv but my games tend to be a mix of online/offline. Plus if more game stores when bust then It be harder to find real people who love games as much as me which is rather frustrating!
Maybe it's time places like comet, etc... started out there online products to competite with online sales, they might be able to help out but personally I'm not sure since I don't have a degree in marketing but I do in games design but there 2 different things. Personally I'm not sure what else to about dvd's because removing hmv is forcing me to look at pre-owned dvd's because that's the only thing left available to me. |
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Forum Posts: 280 | Comment #46 by ronnie42 Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 08:31:56 PM | |
| @45 meant buy, not but. |
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Forum Posts: 53 | Comment #47 by SteaL K1LL Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 02:57:05 AM | |
| Just stop this thing I don't want to buy everything digital the entire fun of buying a product is buying a box copy not buying a shitty download. |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #48 by thenewpeter Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 05:07:30 AM | |
Sad to see somewhere else go into administration, but it's expected, blockbuster's is always empty, where ever I've been, there's never really anyone in them.
It will be replaced quickly with a service like red box, i used that whilst i was in america, much better service then blockbusters, and hell, that only had about 30 dvd's in it in a vending machine doodad.
Blacobusters been in trouble for years now, so this isn't a surprise, it's only a surprise that it's lasted as long as it has. |
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Forum Posts: 175 | Comment #49 by Fullbrook Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 05:36:28 AM | |
| This doesn't surprise me all that much, they closed all of our blockbusters a little while back. It sucks when people lose their jobs though. All we really have here for games is EBGames/Gamestops.. like 3 of them I think, and a couple walmarts. We do have a locally owned used media place which has good prices though. |
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Forum Posts: 206 | Comment #50 by three15 Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 06:05:44 AM | |
Although Blockbuster had terrible customer service and sold new games open and scratched i'm going to miss being able to rent. Paying £40 for a 6 hour game is something i'm not prepared to do.
I think they'll be brought anyway, my local BB is always packed out so they must have a good customer base. |
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Forum Posts: 878 | Comment #51 by TacticalTodger Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 06:21:04 AM | |
| Sucks the one in my town is actually full of really nice people...(Tonbridge) |
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Forum Posts: 99 | Comment #52 by Pyro Stick Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 06:28:27 AM | |
| i havent even seen a blockbuster in 3 years. Ive done all my shopping online for probably twice that long. The instore prices are literally disgusting |
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Forum Posts: 326 | Comment #53 by BsE Bloodbath Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 07:47:55 AM | |
| Hopefully the one i work at won't close down or obvs i'm out of a job lol >. |
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Forum Posts: 463 | Comment #54 by francisrossi Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 08:32:39 AM | |
| Blockbuster have been in the shit even longer than HMV. The days when they could put numerous copies of the latest releases on the shelf and put the indy rental shop down the road out of business are long gone. Postal rentals took a chunk of their business away and then streaming services ate away at even more. They tried joining in, but were up against established companies in those sectors. Not nice to find yourself in the position you left others in. |
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