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12/3/2008 4:00 PM

Blockbuster, Inc. (BBI)

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The Company is a global provider of in-home rental and retail movie and game entertainment, with over 8,000 stores in the United States, its territories and 22 other countries.

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Avatar bammerone (86.25) Submitted: 2/05/07 11:29 PM : Outperform Start Price: $6.76 BBI Score: -41.89

I like the focus on advertising. Combo of mail and stores is going to kick Netflix down a few rungs. Membership pricing, demographics and ability to get free in store rentals when returning is going to lure more customers in to stores and should lead to increase in samem store sales. I like the story.

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Avatar danrm07 (60.16) Submitted: 2/14/07 1:44 PM

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I completely agree. BBI just seems to have more potential than NFLIX. I hope that the company gets into distribution straight to the house through internet downloading.

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Avatar DLai0001 (78.70) Submitted: 2/16/07 1:35 AM

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I'm just going to call it as it is. No one going to blockbusters right now is going to use Netflix, and certainly not the other way around either.

People on netflix use netflix because they're too lazy to go into the store. And blockbuster won't take any significant number from netflix until they learn how to either better price by a large margin, or provide and overall better borrowing experience.

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Avatar cowork (< 20) Submitted: 12/08/07 10:27 PM

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This doesn’t sound like a business that needs a store in every neighborhood; they are selling computer files. Unless they can make the stores work for them in an innovative way, the bricks and mortar are just a drag on the bottom line.

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Avatar bammerone (86.25) Submitted: 8/06/08 5:50 PM

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Interesting, they closed the two closest to my house and since I have the Total access, am now forced to go on-line. No labor, no bricks and mortar. I do miss browsing for the tiles though. My kids use RedBox at mcDonalds and it could blow both BBI and NFLX away. $1 a day, first run movies.

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