Blockbuster Blog Takes Swipe at Netflix for Blu-ray Price Increase

Update: It seems some of the Blockbuster franchises are charging extra for Blu-ray.

Could there be an online war brewing between Netflix & Blockbuster? Blockbuster took a swipe at Netflix's price increase with the second post on the official Blockbuster blog, Blockbuster Doesn't Charge Extra for Blu-ray rentals.

 We love Blu-ray movies. With sweet high-def graphics and awesome sound, it’s like treating your eyes and ears to a delicious six-course meal, followed by a massage, followed by a night out at the finest discotheque in town. That’s why we don’t charge more for online Blu-ray rentals.
You can put as many Blu-ray movies in your Queue as you want with no extra fee. And BLOCKBUSTER Total Access customers get to exchange online rentals for in-store Blu-ray rentals at no additional charge!

Even the Blockbuster Twitter account got in on the action with the following tweet:

Blockbuster was careful not to mention Netflix, but the post and tweet are an obvious jab at Netflix's price increase for Blu-ray customers.

Comments

[Davis Freeberg]

Whoa, Blockbuster has a blog? At least they're not afraid to create a little bit of controversy. Those types of posts always attract the link bait. Hopefully, this is a sign that we'll see more of a conversation going forward. Not sure that going after Netflix for extra Blu-Ray prices is the right thing though, for one sooner or later Blockbuster will have to charge more for Blu-Ray too and blog posts have a funny way of sticking around even though things change. Perhaps even more importantly though, in a snarkfest I think they'll lose. Blockbuster's pricing is a complete mess. Different stores have different policies and whenever they make a change, it's almost impossible to figure out how it works. Seems like every customer ends up paying something different. Still you've got to hand it to them, they saw a weakness and weren't afraid to give Netflix a swift kick to the nads. Somehow I doubt we'll see Netflix issue a blog post in response, even though a good old fashioned blog fight would be entertaining for those of us in the peanut gallery. At least they're willing to talk about Netflix now, remember when Blockbuster refused to even mention their name on their conference calls? I guess you can only cover your ears and scream lalalala so long before you have to deal with that kind of competition.

[Davis Freeberg]

Lolz - Already they've had to change their blog post, I guess these things don't actually stick around forever.

http://twitter.com/blockbuster_com/status/1427708602

In the immortal words of Animal Farm, he who controls the present controls the past.

[Netflix]

Hi friends,
If the prices go high then I think The Netflix membership prices will also go high.