blockbuster

I've been wondering what exactly the deal is with this 'no more late fees' thing, so I looked it up. I thought I'd share it with you, since most everyone I know rents movies. I've actually been thinking of joining zip.ca or something similar to the US Netflix, but haven't yet.

Anyway, so if you rent a movie at Blockbuster, you can keep it a week past its due date. On the 8th day, they charge you the price of the movie - new price if it's not available as a pre-viewed sale yet, and pre-viewed price if it is, and they subtract the price you paid to rent it. If you end up returning it sometime in the next 30 days, you'll get that sale price money back, less a $1.75 'restocking fee'. I had heard bad things, but that seems like a totally reasonable system to me. If you're going to keep the movie for over a month, you really do deserve to have to pay for it. I'm one of the 'oh, crap, the movie was due back at noon' customers, who gets it back, but maybe a few hours late or the next day occasionally. This is great for me.