Blockbuster and other brick-and-mortal rental stores seemingly give you fewer reasons to patronize them all the time, but Christopher discovered a step in the positive direction by the company: He says if the store doesn’t have what you’re looking for, it will send it to you and let you keep it longer than a normal rental.
He writes:
A new Blockbuster service that they offer is the ability to mail movies or video game rentals to you if they do not have them in the store. IE: if you came in today, like I did, to rent Battlefield 2: only to discover it was rented completely out, blockbuster can take your rental money there and then mail you out a copy of Battlefield 2 from their warehouse. The guy told me it would take about three days to get to my house, and then I would have 7 days, which is 2 days longer than the normal rental. I was also able to return the game at the store or just mail it back.I was kinda impressed that this was now offered at Blockbuster.
Have you taken advantage of Blockbuster’s send-what-we-don’t stock policy? It seems like a solid way to combat the stigma of a weak in-store selection.
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