{"id":2385,"date":"2005-02-18T20:09:27","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2005\/02\/18\/blockbuster-gets-nailed\/"},"modified":"2005-02-18T20:09:27","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:09:27","slug":"blockbuster-gets-nailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"blockbuster-gets-nailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen the advertisements proclaiming &quot;No more late fees&quot; as the poor Blockbuster staffers get mobbed by the overpriced abused crowd.  Turns out that it&#8217;s still a <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/02\/18\/news\/midcaps\/blockbuster_suit\/index.htm?cnn=yes%22\">big lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under Blockbuster&#8217;s (Research) new policy, put into effect on Jan. 1, customers can keep a rental for one week past the due date at no additional charge. After that, they are charged a restocking fee of $1.25. And if the overdue item is kept for more than 30 days, Blockbuster will charge the customer the retail value of the item.<br \/>\nIn a brief statement, Blockbuster defended the new policy, saying it was surprised and disappointed by the lawsuit.<br \/>\n&quot;The fact is there are no longer late fees at Blockbuster,&quot; the company said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did Blockbuster forget that no late fees means no late fees, or was the $15 a month just not enough?  If this is what it calls competition then I think <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.netflix.com%22\">Netflix<\/a> is still the better deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen the advertisements proclaiming &quot;No more late fees&quot; as the poor Blockbuster staffers get mobbed by the overpriced abused crowd. Turns out that it&#8217;s still a big lie. Under Blockbuster&#8217;s (Research) new policy, put into effect on Jan. 1, customers can keep a rental for one week past the due date at no additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}