Peculation

Since June, I've been a member of Blockbuster's Total Access online plan. It's a subscription service where you can rent select 3 DVDs online and they'll ship them to you. Then when you're done with those, you can return them to the store and trade them in for 3 new movies at the store. Then they'll e-mail you the next 3 on your list as well. It's like getting six movies at a time, and it was a pretty good deal. And at $17.99 a month, it was only a dollar more than Netflix. I was a member of Netflix, but I quit when I couldn't think of any more movies to rent.

Their service has been pretty shotty lately. Take this week for example. I returned my movies to the store on Monday night. Typically, they're supposed to send out three more movies - usually the next day but sometimes 2 days later. Well it's Thursday and they still haven't shipped any movies yet. And this has been happening on a regular basis - I don't know if they're just slow or if they're trying to limit the number of movies I get a month. There are a couple of my coworkers who are also memebrs of Blockbuster, and they're having the same problems as me.

Well last month, I got an e-mail saying that they've increased my monthly charge from 17.99 to 24.99. I decided to stick with them, but today I got another e-mail saying that they're increasing their rates from 24.99 to 34.99. Well they can kiss my butt! I've paid for my membership through January 9th, so I'll stay with it until January 8th or so and then I'm through with them! I'm going back to Netflix. And you know what? I checked on Netflix' site and they're still the same $16.99 they've always been. Another lesson learned!!