Pretending To Be Blockbuster

[mb2025]

I like to go to the whitepages website, find a number with names and call them saying im from blockbuster.  I ussually call during the work day, so (not to be sexist) the woman is ussually home.  They answer and i ask for the man.  They say he's not in and i say to tell him that "Asian Oral 4" just got back, and he can come pick up his reserved copy anytime before 10:30, or i say a movie like that is overdue.  Sometimes they guess its a prank, but most of the time its pretty funny to hear their reactions.

[ghostman]

It helps your cred when they have to ask for the title...

Act like you're surprised you got her, tell her it's a courtesy call reminding them of late movies then STALL... they'll ask, you nervously say "Gangbangs of New York" or "Ocean 11 inches" - Hoo-AH! 

$4 a week, lady!

[rbcp]

Spoofing the caller ID of Blockbuster couldn't hurt either. 

[HyperionCC]

What you could do if you wanted "free" movies is 1. Rent a movie from your local Blockbuster. 2. Wait a couple of days. 3. Call your local Blockbuster and say your from another Blockbuster location, and say that you have one of thier movies. They will ask for the barcode off the case of the movie, and in doing so they will enter it into the computer, checking it in for you. Then say, Yeah I'm gonna ship this to you tomorrow. And Tah Dah you have a free movie or movies! I wouldn't do this too often as you'll draw too much attention to yourself.

[mr_doc]

I like to go to the whitepages website, find a number with names and call them saying im from blockbuster.  I ussually call during the work day, so (not to be sexist) the woman is ussually home.  They answer and i ask for the man.  They say he's not in and i say to tell him that "Asian Oral 4" just got back, and he can come pick up his reserved copy anytime before 10:30, or i say a movie like that is overdue.  Sometimes they guess its a prank, but most of the time its pretty funny to hear their reactions.

This is a good idea, however Blockbuster doesn't carry porn and lots of people will know you're lying because of that. You could tell them their copy of 'You got Served' or '3 Ninjas' is available. That would be just as embarrassing as porn.

[mb2025]

I like to go to the whitepages website, find a number with names and call them saying im from blockbuster.  I ussually call during the work day, so (not to be sexist) the woman is ussually home.  They answer and i ask for the man.  They say he's not in and i say to tell him that "Asian Oral 4" just got back, and he can come pick up his reserved copy anytime before 10:30, or i say a movie like that is overdue.  Sometimes they guess its a prank, but most of the time its pretty funny to hear their reactions.

This is a good idea, however Blockbuster doesn't carry porn and lots of people will know you're lying because of that. You could tell them their copy of 'You got Served' or '3 Ninjas' is available. That would be just as embarrassing as porn.

you'd be suprised at how many people beileve it

[ghostman]

They got the softcore/posing stuff I think... at least where I am.  But the other direction is funny too.

"My husband, renting Cinderella III behind my back... WTF?"

I like to call Movie Gallery instead... there's two on the same street I've been intentionally confusing for some time now. They're always getting their [returned] movies mixed up.  They'll think something's stolen when it's been at the other location for months.  Besides I'm sure they have great wild n' woolly titles like Night of the Giving Head!  And Harry Twatter + the Sorcerer's Boner.  And the House of Flying Asses...

I get the feeling everyone likes Blockbuster, though... the target of choice.

[mb2025]

i called blockbuster a bunch today and said one of the employees exposed their genitalia to me. most of them laughed and hung up

[zhPaul]

What you could do if you wanted "free" movies is 1. Rent a movie from your local Blockbuster. 2. Wait a couple of days. 3. Call your local Blockbuster and say your from another Blockbuster location, and say that you have one of thier movies. They will ask for the barcode off the case of the movie, and in doing so they will enter it into the computer, checking it in for you. Then say, Yeah I'm gonna ship this to you tomorrow. And Tah Dah you have a free movie or movies! I wouldn't do this too often as you'll draw too much attention to yourself.

Yea that would technically work if the employee is dumb but there is a process for doing that called "wrong stores" and each movie that you rent has the store code in that number.. like for instance if you rented a movie from blockbuster "A(91529)" and returned it to blockbuster "B(91577)" blockbuster B calls blockbuster A to do "wrong stores" when they get a pile of them. This would work for sure as i used to work at blockbuster, all you'd have to do is go to two different stores and write down the store codes for each one because they will ask you for it when you call it in... or you could just call the stores up and say hey this is josh from robson st, what is your store code? Haha if you want i could write up everything to say, also i still have all of my old training booklets for their computer systems which are pretty much a joke so you could easily claim to be somebody from another store and get an employee to punch in some commands for you and make them do some pretty funny things. The training doesn't cover anything tough so you could easily mess with them.

There would have to be a specific guide written up for doing this so you don't get caught.. here is why. Ok so lets say you've managed to trick them, good on you it's checked in now and you're laughing away at your "free" movie/game. Well when the rental never shows up, all they have to do is look at who last checked it out and it will show your account number. First of all they will look at the "wrong store" log to see which CSR they dealt with from the other store, I suggest finding out the real name of somebody who works there because if you use a fake name it will destroy your chances of getting away with it. When the other employee is confronted about it s/he will have no recollection of when it was done because these people do a shit load of work and tend to forget such things. Usually what will happen because they don't care enough to look into it is they will purge that copy number from the system and report it as lost. If they call you about it, all you have to say is that you returned it to blah blah blockbuster and that no you don't have it. They won't accuse you of stealing or anything like that but they may add a note to your account so that if something like this were to happen again on that specific account they could see. That basic trick will work once and no more, If you're really wanting to nab a ton of movies from them, you'll either have to clear the history from your account or from that specific copy before they look into the lost product.

[Tachyon]

Haha if you want i could write up everything to say, also i still have all of my old training booklets for their computer systems which are pretty much a joke so you could easily claim to be somebody from another store and get an employee to punch in some commands for you and make them do some pretty funny things.

You should totally upload all of those plsthnx.

[zhPaul]

Haha if you want i could write up everything to say, also i still have all of my old training booklets for their computer systems which are pretty much a joke so you could easily claim to be somebody from another store and get an employee to punch in some commands for you and make them do some pretty funny things.

You should totally upload all of those plsthnx.

Sure i'll take a look around for them and get back to you.

*EDIT* I've found a few of them but not the computer one yet, it's around here somewhere.. Until then My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. here is the blockbuster employee hotline number. 1-888-441-9673 i hope some of you will have fun with that.

[BaconStrips]

Try this

http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/movieGenres/specialInterest/sexuality.fullList?pg.1.page=1&pg.1.pageSize=50

 

[acrylic]

This should probably be it's own thread but since we're already off-topic 

A kid i went to school with had a part/time job @ BlockBuster, and before he quit, he created a completely fake account complete with card etc.  After a few months of waiting, a few friends and I went to BlockBuster, rented brand new X.box games and used the card linked to the fake account. still got the games today..

[suncrafter]

That is a funny idea! They did something similar on "Crank Yankers", but with a fake online sex shop company.

[RijilV]

uh, why don't you kids just get movies from netflix and copy them like everyone else?