I can get nothing without needing a password

I confess that I love some of my rantings about truly poor service, and this one I do love.

Who wants to anticipate something when the only outcome is that you have to complain about never getting anything? My view: "I can lay on my arse and contemplate the swirls in my ceiling and not need to recall a password." Indeed, we all can. Thus, I dropped Blockbuster Online, which is the service that is supposed to mail DVDs to your house. I dropped it before the "free offer" expired.

In 2006, I signed up for Blockbuster Online with my wife. As I recall, it was a free trial for three months. We never saw the first movie, though we tried to tell them in a variety of ways where the heck we lived. We gave up after something like a month. Twice they failed, so a third time... we didn't really want to explain our street address again.

It was not as if we lived on a rural route where the only addressing was rough painted numbers on wooden signposts. We lived two blocks from the two main thoroughfares that ran through Vero Beach, Fla. Not a major city, true, but not a gas station and moetl in the middle of the desert, either.

CANCELLATION OF BLOCKBUSTER ONLINE

Reason For Leaving:

• Poor movie selection
• I am not renting enough movies
• The service is too expensive
• I had a lifestyle change

• [checked] I found a better offer

• It took too long to get my movies in the mail.
• The wait time for movies I wanted to be available was too long
• I just wanted to try the service out
• I prefer to rent in-store
• I was not getting the movies from the top of my queue.
• Customer service issues are not resolved fast enough.
• I prefer another online movie service
• The website was confusing and/or slow.
• I am not using the Blockbuster Online Membership enough

Comments:

Include choices of: "None of the above" and "Never received a single, solitary movie, though I was under the belief that they were shipped."

I waited for two sets of movies, and neither set arrived within four or three days (respectively). I am not interested in getting nothing for free or for money.

Look, life has enough automated, systemated, consolidated "conveniences" that simply aren't what they claim to be. I don't need another service that creates anticipation without a result. I received nothing twice, so I figure expecting something a third time is idiotic on my part. Thanks for the attempt, but no thanks.

My better offer? I can get nothing at any time without involving Blockbuster. I can lay on my arse and contemplate the swirls in my ceiling and not need to recall a password.

[To clarify, this comment I wrote was offered by me below the above listing.]

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