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KennyJ · Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 885 Location: Lawndale, CA

http://www.insideredbox.com/redbox-begins-testing-higher-rental-prices/

purpopcorn · Joined: 06 Nov 2009 Posts: 14 Location: Northern, CA

That's okay! There hasn't been a new release for a longtime that is worth even 10 cents a night. Our family has only used Redbox a few times. If we really like the movie, we usually buy the DVD when it comes out. Other than that, we can wait to get it through Netflixs. Except for the new Star Trek movie, there has not been a movie all year that I can't wait to see.

Netflix Instant and the occasional movie through the mail is all I need.

teddman · Joined: 22 May 2008 Posts: 113

I think Redbox is heading for a crash in the next year or two. They're rolling out a ridiculous number of machines (something like 26,000 in the last fiscal year) and they're already experimenting with price increases?

You don't do that until you're well established as a service people have come to take for granted, they're still developing brand recognition. And Redbox has looming battles with several movie studios that are refusing to allocate them rental discs.

bobpratt · Joined: 12 Aug 2009 Posts: 9 Location: Tulsa, OK

I just drove by a Blockbuster Store in south Tulsa that is now closed and empty......

kc8pql · Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 694

mega1026 · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 60 Location: Louisville, KY

Blockbuster stores are dropping like flies around here

KennyJ · Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 885 Location: Lawndale, CA

QuantumIguana · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 341

I think Redbox is established pretty well. Videostores are going the way of the horse and buggy. Redbox is conveniently located where people are going anyway, grocery stores, drug stores, McDonald's. The McDonald's placement is both ingenious and indisious. You're going to get a movie at McDonald's, so you might as well get food there, and then the next day, you're back again to return it, so you might as well get more food there.

Sure, plenty of people are going to just walk in, get a movie and walk out without getting food. But it has to bring in extra food sales.

I don't use Redbox very often, but its useful if you want a new release. For stuff that's not new, I have Netflix. If Redbox can charge more and maintain their business, they probably will.

KennyJ · Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 885 Location: Lawndale, CA

The only way Redbox would make sense for me is if it was on my way to/from work or at a place I go to daily (unless they put one at my work or in my home, nothing would qualify).

The one time I tried it (actually, it was a different company) was at the grocery store. Well I don't go to the grocery store daily -- so it's an extra trip. While the store isn't far, I've been so conditioned by Netflix and VOD that actually having to go somewhere to return a movie seemed so foreign.

In any case, my $1 movie rental ended up being a $6 movie rental. I've never rented again.