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Post number 18028

feelinglistless — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:23:35 -0800

"Blockbuster requests that you rewind your DVD." Why? What are you going to do? Fine me? [from Dumb Warnings, via Sore Eyes]

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:31:37 -0800

Oh...my...god... cannot...think...of...something... witty...to...say in...the...face...of...stupidity

By: muckster

muckster — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:32:45 -0800

Rewound?

By: rushmc

rushmc — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:45:14 -0800

:: winces every time he reads the word "rewinded" on the linked site ::

By: warhol

warhol — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:48:02 -0800

apocryphal.

By: o2b

o2b — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:48:27 -0800

while stupid, i can understand how such a mistake could be made. my theory is that some blockbuster mucky-muck watched a DVD on his PC or DVD player, and s/he happened to eject it and pop it back in, whereupon it started playing from where s/he left off (some do that). obviously this is a software issue, and will not translate to the next renter's experience.

By: Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:49:27 -0800

rushmc: I feel your pain. When's the last time you winded your watch? YOU DIDN'T, YOU WOUND YOUR WATCH! *adjusts tie*

By: John Shaft

John Shaft — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:50:45 -0800

I don't know Blockbuster's security policy, but it might be the sticker happens to be the security tag, and needs to be placed somewhere on the disc/box.

By: mathis23

mathis23 — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:52:40 -0800

Sorry...no way am I believing this one. I'm guessing the stickers are used as some sort of security sensor. But those BB responses are a load of bunk.

By: dws

dws — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:53:22 -0800

I suspect that someone, perhaps buries deep inside of Blockbuster, is having a great laugh at the inabilities of others to get the joke.

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:58:56 -0800

I think the real stinger is that our friend asked as many people in the company as he could and none of them would hold their hands up and admit the error ... personally, I would have asked the clerk in the shop to show me how he would rewind the DVD ... this are the most successful video rental company people ... is it any wonder you can never find anything decent to watch ... oh, but they will have a 150 copies of 'Freddie Got Fingered' ...

By: Hankins

Hankins — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:09:30 -0800

i gotta call bullshit on this as well. i could see it happening, sure (there are many different possibilities as to how "rewind" verbiage might endup on a dvd package), but those blockbuster responses couldn't possibly be real.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:10:05 -0800

No, it's true! I wrote to BlockBuster, myself. I asked them why DVDs have that sticker in an email and I have the reply right here! Copy and pasted: --- FROM: BlockBuster TO: whatnotever SUBJECT: Re: Rewind DVD sticker Were sorry 4 u, but u r dum, please rewind be kind kthxbye. Love, BlockBuster --- Then I wrote back, all like, "So how do you rewind it? IT'S ROUND!!!" And then I got a reply, but it was from different people! --- FROM: BlockBuster Lawyers TO: whatnotever SUBJECT: CEESE AND DESIST dear sir, ur threataning emails must ceese immeditly becuz they r illglal. if u dont stop harassing us we will b forcd to seek legall actiun aganst u. -BlockBuster Lawyers --- So don't be so quick to dismiss this, guys!

By: MaddCutty

MaddCutty — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:22:42 -0800

I rewinded all of my DVDs before I send them back to Blockbuster. ... Whoops never mind since I haven't ever rented a DVD from Blockbuster and I refuse too. Ballbuster is expensive and filled with a buch of minimum wage help that wouldn't know a good video if it bit them on the ass. I can now add stupid to the list of why I won't patronize them.

By: jkaczor

jkaczor — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:23:15 -0800

That's what we all get from living in the asylum. This truly started with those toothpick instructions...

By: hotdoughnutsnow

hotdoughnutsnow — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:36:28 -0800

LOL, thank you whatnotever, I can now get off the computer for the evening, 'cause it's all downhill from here.

By: signal

signal — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:42:53 -0800

jkaczor, yeah, but at least the walls are a tasteful designer shade of pink, and the three-legged tables are nice, too.

By: rhyax

rhyax — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:55:10 -0800

ha, yea i used to work at blockbuster, the please rewind sticker conceals the magnetic security strip on vhs. there are special dvd ones that do not say rewind (and fit dvds of course) but you know, sometimes you run out of those, and use whatever you have... employees wouldn't really think of it because we just see those as security tags, "please rewind" is just a happy message. if you look at them they say something like, "if you damage this label you must purchase the video..." that perhaps should have clued the guy in... oh and the customer service dept. isn't run by 13 year olds either ;)

By: smcbride

smcbride — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:55:26 -0800

*quietly moving to the next rental chain with a stack of "be kind, rewind" stickers... *

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:19:40 -0800

I used to work at blockbuster... those stickers are, indeed, security tags -- rip one apart sometime and you'll see the telltale strip inside.

By: andrewraff

andrewraff — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:39:02 -0800

I, too, think the responses from blockbuster look fake, but I have seen the 'please rewind me' stickers on dvds rented from Tower....

By: Hankins

Hankins — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:47:29 -0800

whatnotever: kthxbye :) Good stuff.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:01:11 -0800

The first run of instruction stickers (that may of may not have also been for security) for the video store accross the road from my home included the phrase "Do not use panic button". Subsequent versions replaced this with "Do not use pause button". I preferred the first version.

By: tiamat

tiamat — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:04:16 -0800

I don't believe it. I can't *let* myself believe it.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:31:40 -0800

Actually, after you rewind the DVD, make sure you put it in the case with the wound side up. That way there's less tension on the disc, which would risk snapping it in half when the DVD player starts. If you want to be really anal and have your DVDs last a long time, rewind them to a different point each time and store them flat.

By: GeekAnimator

GeekAnimator — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 06:27:27 -0800

And don't forget that DVDs sound better if you run a green marker around their edges first. =)

By: straight

straight — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:48:39 -0800

And, for best picture clarity, keep your DVDs in the freezer to reduce quantum noise effects.

By: Danf

Danf — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:43:30 -0800

The first few DVD's we rented. . my wife asked if I'd rewound them, as I was taking them out of the player. . . I'm not making this up.

By: MUD

MUD — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:29:46 -0800

Having gotten over my bamboozlement at the linked warning, I took a random stab into the website found that my gob could be yet futher smacked by the instructions for a Flying Goku. I mean, "May pre house the seamy side volitation!!!"?

By: Modem Ovary

Modem Ovary — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:58:31 -0800

Given that these stickers are security strips, couldn't they think of anything better than "be kind, rewind?" Like, say, hmmm....THE BLOCKBUSTER LOGO??