I was embarassed when I noticed some price stickers in the $2-$3 range on several of the DVD's I unloaded during my last trip to Blockbuster. The guy ringing them up saw them but didn't seem to care.

the guy was just pissed that you found a loophole in the system. That's why he gave him attitude and you gave it back. If I were you, I would've just taken those discs to another store. There's no reason to make employees label you a "demon customer" if it's not necessary.

Even with the reciept, i see nothing wrong with what he asked. If you bought it and returned in the next day, then he could just assume you saw it that night and went back to resell it the next day, and thus asking you about the movie. I'd get snotty about the buy/trade in afterwards too if you gave me a response like that.

I saw the Rocky box set I traded in being for sale for $39.99, which is funny since I got $40 in trade for it. I'm thinking a lot of these trade-ins are a lateral movement for Blockbuster. For the most part they're not making much if any profit upon reselling them, but at the same time we're using our credit to buy new dvds for $5-10 more than they cost at a retail store.

Yea, I saw the DVDs I traded in on their PVD shelves. Their all going for about 12.99.

I've traded in 40 or 50 titles now. It's been great accumulating all this credit and I've found a fair number of good titles to buy from stores, but I have run into a couple of problems.

1) I was hoping to unload a couple of Simpsons season sets and In Living Color season one, but I don't have those stupid sheets that were stuck to the back and there's no UPCs on the boxes. Nobody has been willing to take anything they can't scan. I wonder if there's somewhere online I can find scans that I could print. The only olther titles they wouldn't take were a crappy Laserlight disc and the Quantum Leap series premiere disc that predates the season sets.

2) I've been told at 2 different stores now that they don't do special orders anymore. I was able to pick up curb your enthusiam season two in the store, but I've been trying to get th0em to order season one. I might like to order a couple of Criterions too. Has anyone else run into this problem?

3) I was thinking about using some credit to pick up a Nintendo DS when it comes out, but there aren't any of these Gamerush stores in my state. Does anyone know if a regular store might be willing to order a game system, or if any of them will carry it in-store?

The difference being... Blockbuster is getting cash for their sales, while we are getting credit for the purchase of mostly overpriced merchandise (that otherwise might never be bought).

I cant seem to find it, but is there a list of all the stores participating in this deal, just went to the closest one and no good... Any Helo?

I have since sold my Simpsons Season 1 set and still have the sheet with the UPC and proof of purchase. LMK if you need it.

If I could have recorded his voice and how he said it and put it in this thread....

Which Blockbuster in SC was this btw?

Does anyone have a part number for the Matrix Trilogy thats coming out later??

PLEASE!!!!??

Well, Meatpants...thats what I did and was able to trade my disc. Funny thing now is that both stores would not take Vampire in Brooklyn....and I saw it with my eyes... the disc simply does not scan in their system. Weird.

Pro-B

I saw a couple of rare OOP dvds - Karate Kid, which was scratched to hell and missing its insert; and Half Baked, which I didn't really check out because it is not consistently going at a high enough price on eBay, and I don't really want to own it.

Odd that Vampire in Brooklyn would not scan - fairly popular film with a major star in his prime and all.

Tell me about it. They HAD it for rent and sale. I took the "sale" copy went to the register and the guy told me that the system must be "bugged". I did not even try to argue....gave the disc to my brother.

Pro-B

Woodruff Road.

Has ANYONE found a BB in Southern California (hopefully San Diego area) that is doing this deal? My jealousy over missing out on this is all-consuming ; )

When I was trading some of my titles in, I asked the clerk why some titles were not accepted. I was told that there are three reasons why a title would be denied:

1) If it was released by an independent studio (such as Platinum), it will not be in their database and, thus, not accepted.
2) They 'supposedly' have a quota of how many of each title they will accept in trade-in. I don't know if the clerk was giving me a bs story or not. But they said some titles they accepted early on were not accepted a few days later. Maybe they're getting their fill on very common WalMart $5 titles (is Vampire in Brooklyn from there?)
3) If it doesn''t have 'Region 1' listed on the cover art or disc, it would not be accepted. This one is a YMMV issue, as I had some disks refused at BBV#1, but accepted at BBV#2.

Any stores in the Boston area doing this? Can't seem to find any.

A few of us in OC and LA areas have had no troubles. I don't live in SD anymore though, so no idea on that

I had the out of print FS version of Mr. Saturday Night get refused (at multiple locations) and the only reason that I can think of is that it's out of print... what about Vampire in Brooklyn? still in print?

edit: I should add that they said that it *was* in their system, but listed with a buyback quantity of zero allowed.

I've seen 4-5 in the Burbank/LA area.

Anybody know of any Blockbusters that are participating in Central IL? I know that the Springfield stores are not . . . what about Peoria, Decatur, etc?

I traded in my flipper copies of JFK and Goodfellas, I believe both of those are OOP.

yeah... I don't know... maybe their computers just have a mind of their own...