Blockbuster Video CLEARANCE sale starts SEPTEMBER 9TH.

[Evil.Kitten]

ya sales could even start as early as the afternoon of the 6th. it's whenever the courts say they can start.. no doubt within a few days of the 6th.

It's crazy the amount of items the staff are putting away for the sale.. my dad's got a ps3, psp, games, movies... holy crap.. seriously... it's like a store within a store.

Nuts.. it's seriously going to be a blood bath at our BBV the minute they announce the sales... I'll be dashing into town the night it happens if not sooner.


Whooooo christmas shopping lmao.

[JessicaGreer]

Can't wait...but i think the employees will take it all

[Cheesecake]

I will go back then!

[Gamerfaith]

I work for Jumbo Video in St. Catharines and we are closing this Sunday over a long term leasing issue and the long term sales forecast.
But it really upset the staff this week to hear that Blockbuster was closing now and we probably could have saved our jobs if corporate knew how much business was going to come our way with 2 video stores closing in town. Why couldn't they have announced the closing a month ago?!

[AmandaPantz]

Bah, well all I can say is I hope that teh employees do not nab everything Ohhh well, even if they do get all the electronics etc I will still have DVD'S! yay!

[browngirl82]

I called two of the locations in Scarborough over the weekend and both numbers are out of service. I even drove to one of the locations yesterday and the store was closed and the lights were off. It doesn't seem these stores are even operating right now! The news said they would be accepting giftcards until Sept. 6th yet they are not even open. I still have money on my giftcard!!

[Melissa13]

I went in on thursday to use up my gc and credits once I heard they would be closing. She told me this thursday would be the last day for me to use them. But my credits were not in the system so I had to call head office and there computers were down he took down my info but I have a feeling my $36 is lost forever...

[Evil.Kitten]

Very strange i just rentd a game on friday night from my local BBV.

[dlee]

will they be posting dates of the sales or will it just be luck of the draw?

[mimi-]

i wonder what sort of a discount can we expect

[Ciel]

The receiver said Wednesday the closure process should begin in the next few days, and existing gift cards and rewards programs will no longer be accepted.
A court hearing to consider the full-out closure is scheduled for next Tuesday.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1047909--with-no-buyers-blockbuster-to-shut-remaining-canadian-stores

It's too late to use the gift cards, as reported last week in the newspapers.

[dvdswapper]

There's only two locations left in Toronto. I went to both recently and noticed the staff at both locations putting games/systems aside for themselves. I just hope they leave me one Resistance 3, lol.
NO locations in Scarborough.

[amused]

Gamerfaith ... Sorry to hear this ... Hope everything works out for you.

[Newfiegirl]

Well I went in Thursday after it was posted here. I had about $7 on my gift card and used rent a new release, get one free coupon with that, plus I had another new release free rental coupon, plus a coupon for a tv series favourite rental. So I'm all good, I just have to find time to watch everything. They had some of their not the greatest movies on sale 2/$6.98, but I didn't see anything I wanted. I was still using Blockbuster but don't spend a lot of $$. I would usually get the book that you buy for around $20 but that included a $10 gc plus a free rental when you bought the $20 gc, so between the gc, coupons and promos, it wasn't too bad a deal. Jumbo is now part of the same sprawling strip mall. I also get a lot of movies from the library.

[Evil.Kitten]

Today's judgement day!

My dad and i had a long discussion in the car yesterday about BBV and after we both read their lawyers [i think,grant thornton LLP] website and all the info about bbv canada. yadda yadda.. basically canada went down the tubes because the states went bankcrupt.. nice that they have their 1500 stores still open unhurt and canada's stores get the shaft... pft.. irratating... but anyways. The states wanted canada to stop using 'blockbuster' name but canada paid for the name years ago.. this is so stupid.

Ah i'm getting off track =/ The courts.. okay, either the judge can let them close asap or drag out monthly sales until christmas. My dad's like 'maybe it's better... giving discounts every month.. 10% first month, 20% next, etc" I say it's not really practical... I know for a fact the lindsay store rental for the store location is very expensive [the person who own the whitney town center is an ass and makes everyone overpay to have their business their.. he thinks his open mall is better then anywhere else... .... and thats why fabricland went out of business in lindsay =(] so to pay 4 months worth of rent at every location you'd have to make up all that rent in sales each month plus actual profit.... I don't see the point really. It makes more sense to give 30-50% off you product, cut your losses and try to get everything sold before the month ends and you have to pay rent for another month.

I dunno maybe i'm wrong but the latter makes more sense to me...

oh and dvdswrapper, it's going to happen, look at my local store.. my brother works there.. he's put tonnes of stuff aside for family members and himself.. ps3, psp, xbox kinect..controllers games dvds.. etc. Cause the last time this happened we all went out to the closing bbv's and everything was pretty much gone but shelves themselves and crappy movies [this was a few days after the sales began]. maybe you could ask them to put one aside? might work might not.

I dunno but everything being put away hinges on the judges ruling today.. if they are given the go ahead to start the sales asap my brother thinks it could start as early at friday.