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To: Dashing Dasher; xm177e2; weegee; rwfromkansas; tortoise
Got the following email from blockbuster:

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Our New Year's Resolution: Lower rates and improved service in 2005!

Lower rates guaranteed through 2005!

As of Dec. 22, 2004*, pay only $14.99 a month plus applicable tax to enjoy up to three DVDs out at a time. This low rate is guaranteed not to increase through Jan. 31, 2006, as long as you keep your membership in good standing.

More movies!

Choose from more than 30,000 titles in our expanded DVD library.

More shipping centers!

Get your movies faster! We've more than doubled the number of shipping centers serving the country - 23 by the end of January - with more to come!

*Price effective for current BLOCKBUSTER Online members on their first monthly billing date following 12/22/04.

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NOW they're REALLY competing with netflix. First they lowered their price to 17.49 (which in turn forced Netflix to drop their price to 17.99), and dropping that even further to 14.99 and increased their library to over 30 thousand movies (Netflix once bragged of over 25 thousand, while BB could brag of only 25 thousand). And doubling their number of distribution centers.

Now if they could only do something about their lousy website. Man, does my computer drag ever so slowly on their site. TOO MUCH java script all over the damn place.

40 posted on 12/23/2004 8:43:57 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge; xm177e2; weegee; rwfromkansas; tortoise

That just means that Netflix will be dumping their prices next. I hope.


41 posted on 12/23/2004 8:57:46 PM PST by Dashing Dasher (Because I fly, I envy no (wo)man on earth. - Anon)
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To: lowbridge

Wow.....that is almost in my price range now.


42 posted on 12/24/2004 1:35:27 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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