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Redbox’s disc rentals are over (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

I was just at a store last week and they had a sign on the machine saying you can't use it and it's going away. I wonder what they'll do with all those discs.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Before the pandemic, I used to watch a youtube channel of this guy who would dumpster dive gamestop.

    He got so excited over finding what was in most cases trash.

    Things like manuals, without a case or a game. Things like boxes for headphones, with no headphones.

    Occasionally he'd find something decent.......but never worth dumpster diving every night for.

    The one thing that was strange was that gamestop almost always broke disks in half before throwing them out.

    So I imagine thats what redbox will do.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The one thing that was strange was that gamestop almost always broke disks in half before throwing them out.

    I think this is a common method to disincentivize people from taking stuff. Many moons ago I worked at Walmart and they did the same stuff in the claims area. They would damage everything to make it worthless and then either toss it in the trash compactor or send it back to the manufacturer. They damaged it to male sure that it couldn't be sold again and to somewhat prevent people from using this as a method to 'launder' good items that they'd come back later to take home.

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