Blockbuster Online Price Change

I knew a good thing like this couldn't last forever, but it was great while it did last. Blockbuster Online (www.blockbuster.com) had the sweetest deal in town when it came to online rental services. For $17.99 they were giving you 3 online movie rentals at a time mailed to your home, unlimited in store exchanges per month, and one free game or movie rental per month. So here's how it worked. You fill your online queue with movies, and as they become available they are mailed to your home. You might be saying that plenty of online rental offer this, right? Well they do, but how many of them let you return your movies in the store in exchange for 3 more rentals? And since you returned them to the store they considered them returned to the warehouse and immediately shipped the next 3 movies in your queue! That works out to about 15 to 22 rentals per month for $17.99! That's less than $1 per movie! No wonder they raised the price. Now it's $21.99 for 3 rentals per month, and you only get 5 in store exchanges per month as opposed to the unlimited option of the old plan.

It's still better than what Net Flix has to offer because it used to take forever to get movies from them. Now I will admit that their new PC viewing option sounds intriguing but unless I'm able to easily stream that movie to my big screen TV I don't think I would ever try it. I just don't see myself sitting at a PC watching a full length movie. It looks like Block Buster still has the best deal in town. Check it out.

DT