I love having the best of both worlds - I take all my Blockbuster online envelopes back to the store to swap out for free rentals. And now that they've ramped up carrying blu-ray in-store, well, that's just even more gravy.
Ditto. I take my BB Online movies to the store and swap them out. Even though there's supposed to be a limit of 5 swaps per month, that is only per store. I have a Blockbuster by my job, a Blockbuster by my house, and a Blockbuster on the road between. So, I can almost swap as much as I want.
I dropped Netflix for Blockbuster for this very reason. It's so much more convenient to have a queue full of Blu-ray/HD-DVD movies, and then just return them in the store (which is about 2 miles from me) for more Blu-ray titles (usually the newer releases that sometimes have a wait online).
I wasn't aware that there was a limit to how many you can swap in-store though, because I'm pretty sure that I've done more than 5 in a single month before (but I don't know for sure).
I also get 2 free rental coupons per month that I use for games. Overall, these added values are way worth the extra day it takes to get the movies in the mail compared to Netflix.
Same here. We do BB Online and trade in-store for long wait / Blu titles. Bonus is that when you drop movies off in-store, most of the time the next item in your online queue in the next day, so depending on the movies, you could have 6 discs out at once.
silentShab, you must have been grandfathered into on of BB's older plans somehow. I was one the exact same plan with unlimited in-store exchanges and the two free rental coupons but they 'upgraded' me and many others to a plan with a 5 in-store exchange limit and no coupons.
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I love having the best of both worlds - I take all my Blockbuster online envelopes back to the store to swap out for free rentals. And now that they've ramped up carrying blu-ray in-store, well, that's just even more gravy.
Ditto. I take my BB Online movies to the store and swap them out. Even though there's supposed to be a limit of 5 swaps per month, that is only per store. I have a Blockbuster by my job, a Blockbuster by my house, and a Blockbuster on the road between. So, I can almost swap as much as I want.
I dropped Netflix for Blockbuster for this very reason. It's so much more convenient to have a queue full of Blu-ray/HD-DVD movies, and then just return them in the store (which is about 2 miles from me) for more Blu-ray titles (usually the newer releases that sometimes have a wait online).
I wasn't aware that there was a limit to how many you can swap in-store though, because I'm pretty sure that I've done more than 5 in a single month before (but I don't know for sure).
I also get 2 free rental coupons per month that I use for games. Overall, these added values are way worth the extra day it takes to get the movies in the mail compared to Netflix.
Same here. We do BB Online and trade in-store for long wait / Blu titles. Bonus is that when you drop movies off in-store, most of the time the next item in your online queue in the next day, so depending on the movies, you could have 6 discs out at once.
silentShab, you must have been grandfathered into on of BB's older plans somehow. I was one the exact same plan with unlimited in-store exchanges and the two free rental coupons but they 'upgraded' me and many others to a plan with a 5 in-store exchange limit and no coupons.
I was grandfathered in to an old plan too. I still get unlimited exchanges, but only one free rental coupon.