{"id":112,"date":"2008-02-18T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedealguru.com\/2008\/02\/18\/how-blockbuster-lost-me"},"modified":"2010-06-19T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T18:14:25","slug":"how-blockbuster-lost-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/2008\/02\/how-blockbuster-lost-me.html","title":{"rendered":"How BLOCKBUSTER lost me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, I wrote an article about how good is the Blockbuster Total Access<sup>TM<\/sup> compare to <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>. I enjoyed unlimited DVDs exchange at Blockbuster store and rented Wii games with a Free Game rental coupon a month. But Blockbuster couldn&#8217;t make the money with that plan and they increased the price of membership, so I moved on to Netflix.<br \/>\n<b>What has changed now ?<\/b><br \/>\nWell it used to cost $17.99 for Blockbuster Total Access<sup>TM<\/sup> with unlimited exchange and now the same plan cost $34.99. On top there is no free Game\/Movie rental coupon.<br \/>\nBlockbuster still has a plan for $19.99 but you are limited to 5 movies exchange only.<br \/>\n<b>What good is about <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> then?<\/b> <br \/>\nWell <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> plan cost $16.99, though no store exchange as they don&#8217;t have one, but <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> is very fast in shipment. I rarely received any new movies from Blockbuster online queue. Blockbuster shipment got much better but still slow compare to <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd greatest things about <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> is I can watch movies online instantly. Though <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> don&#8217;t have very big selection yet for online watching is fun. Also if you are like me who order foreign movies too, <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> has the best library.<\/p>\n<div class=\"offerfooter\"><b><span class=\"offerheader\">If you would like to try Neflix for FREE :<\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n<ol class=\"offerol\">\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for free trial from <a href=\"\/blog\/dg\/deal\/netflix\/8\/deal_netflix.html\" target=\"_blank\">netflix.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, I wrote an article about how good is the Blockbuster Total AccessTM compare to Netflix. I enjoyed unlimited DVDs exchange at Blockbuster store and rented Wii games with a Free Game rental coupon a month. But Blockbuster couldn&#8217;t make the money with that plan and they increased the price of membership, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/2008\/02\/how-blockbuster-lost-me.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How BLOCKBUSTER lost me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,304,305],"tags":[46,47,114,115,116,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedealguru.com\/blog\/dg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}