Don't know where else to ask this

Mark23
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:36:24 +0000

Hi guys, this will be an odd question but there’s plenty of bright people here so why not try? Besides HS Life is pretty random as it is. :P

Anyways, my city is devoid of video rental stores, and the Blockbuster we always go to just closed down. There’s a Family Video with a great selection and extremely close to my house, but when it first opened a few years ago we screwed that opportunity up within the first few months it was open. We rented a game which I lost (I was only 9) but returned a while later and I think the fee is something like $40. I really want to be able to use this account, especially as I’ll be getting my license soon and even more so that Blockbuster closed.

I can’t open up an account as I’m not 18, and I can’t open one up under someone else’s name as they would know as you need to provide some form of ID if you don’t look like the desc. of the account holder.

Anyways, how can I convince them to lessen or drop the fees altogether? Ideally, I’m not paying more than $15 on something that WAS eventually returned to them.

I was thinking of telling them “Look, the game was returned to you, and we’re not paying that fee. The only difference between you dropping the fee or not is that if you drop it you’ll actually have business from us in the future, and the only reason we lost the game in the first place was because I was young.”

Any ideas? Sorry for length. And yes, it does matter to me. :P