Do some clubs actually have 30,000 titles?
A few might, but others say they have “access” to 5,000+ or 15,000+ titles. Maybe they rent them from other clubs to send to you! Actually, it means that the club promises to purchase any DVD a member requests that isn’t in stock. They do this so they can claim to “have” all DVDs currently in print, a.k.a. thousands more DVDs than they have on hand. We’ve also heard the excuse a couple of times that the club “hasn’t yet entered all our DVDs in the database.” The total number of titles is less important than how many copies the club has of popular titles, which is one reason Blockbuster Online is by and far the largest DVD rental site online. For this guide, we compile the number of titles at each club in two ways: (1) When possible, we do a manual count of the number of titles listed on the site, and (2) we ask each club to tell us how many titles it has. Because some clubs don’t reply, and others inflate their numbers, the “number of titles” should be considered only as a general guid
