Boycotting Blockbuster

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I'm boycotting Blockbuster all together. I really think it's stupid that they are so afraid of Netflix and other great video stores like Hollywood video that they paid Harvey Weinstein some absurd amount of money to exclesivly be able to rent out Weinstein movies. That's nuts and in my opinon border line monoplizing. At first my hubby was like "I guess we're going to have to switch to Blockbuster". I said no way are we going to be apart of it. I'll buy every movie that Weinstein puts out just so that Blockbuster doesn't get any money from it. If I don't like the movie then I'll put it on ebay. My husband now agrees with me that on it. Years ago we rented from Blockbuster all the time. But they had very little DVD's back then. There was a Hollywood Video across the street and they had a much larger selection of DVDs. So we started going there. Then when we moved to 25 minutes from Hollywood Video we decieded to give Walmart through the mail rentals a try considering we had a hard time getting the movies back on time. Walmart was very slow at processing their movies so we stepped up to Netflix (and right after that Walmart sold all their stuff to Netflix). They have an increidable turn around! We've been really satisfied with Netflix. About a month ago though I was trying for a fee Wii and I choose Blockbuster as one of the sponsers you have to choose. And in one months time we got a total of 7 movies. And Netflix we got about 3 times that many. They're just so slow at processing. The whole in store gimic they've got makes so difference to us because by the time they open in the morning we are well at home, usuallly eating dinner. Then we go to bed and go to work. Driving 25 minutes for a movie is nuts. That's why we did the through the mail renting to begin with. So anyway...I'm boycotting Blockbuster. I don't blame Weinstein (manly because I love most of the movies he puts out) cause he just wants to make money.