What Happened to Redbox? My Experience as an Employee

I was a loyal Redbox customer. Every weekend I would rent atleast 2 blurays. When Redbox announced they would start renting 4K blurays I immediately went and bought a new 4K tv and got a 4K bluray player. For the next few months I checked every Redbox kiosk for 50 miles looking for 4K blurays. For the next few years I continued my search. I never found a single 4K bluray. I eventually gave up and never used Redbox again. I invested over $2,500 to upgrade to 4K all because Redbox made a false claim. As of now, the only 4K programming I have actually got to watch has been a handful of 4K blurays I purchased on Amazon. I know many streaming services claim to offer 4K streaming but it's not true 4K and certainly nothing compared to 4K bluray. It warms my heart to know that Redbox went bankrupt. They deserve to go bankrupt. I waisted $2,500 on an entertainment system because of Redbox. I hope the CEO goes to prison.

Great video, I got laid off once and decided never again. Work for the government. It's stable and you don't need to deal with this nonsense.

This is interesting, I was just randomly suggested this video. I would love to hear more about this.

Im here before this video blows up!
But as another Floridian who recently also lost their job due to Corpo Malfeasance I feel you bro.
I appreciated your insight with screenshots of the actual emails. Really thorough stuff.
Hope you find luck settling into a new occupation soon 👍

You lost me at working outside....lol...good video tho.

Should you ever sell any of the DVDs or BDs I would love buy one, I am from germany and when I was in the US as a kid I was absolutly astounded by the concept of Redbox. Yeah I know. 😂 But I am to young to have witnessed actual video store rentals like Blockbuster so this is just blew my mind as a kid.

Hope this guy gets life in prison sentence.

sadly it was bound to happen. everything is all available easier no need for dvds :(

Glad to see the worker solidarity in emails, but those testimonials were heartbreaking. Its absolutely fraud and will ruin so many lives, but best bet no one is going to jail for these crimes. Also, had no clue Chicken Soup still existed as a company or was connected to Redbox, my how they have fallen.

o7, now how am I gonna rip dvds for cheap? /s

WHOA. Unreal..

Sorry you got screwed. I kept seeing the kiosks. I don't even own a DVD player, just an external USB Drive for reading existing DVDs and CDs.

I live in Montana. If I were to go and rent all the movies and not return them, would it hurt an independent owner OR only the evil corporation? Hypothetically of course.

Oh man, you have my deepest sympathies. It's terrible what happened. It's not right to be treated like garbage.

Sorry to hear about job loss

I’m sorry but if you work for a DVD COMPANY IN 2024 and ignore all the red flags from the past couple years, what are you doing?!

I hope your business flourish and you come out stronger.

I am so sorry. Wage theft is so prevalent. My heart goes out to all RedBox employees 😢.

This video will blow up

Guarantee that those tasty golden parachutes for all the corporate suits already deployed…no late fees on those suckers! Sorry the working guy is on the short end again😢

Thanks for sharing bro

You need to bring this to a labor lawyer and hope to get back what you were owed

Woah this is weird, I was just going through my old pictures and was looking at a pic from 2013 that had a Redbox machine in the background and I thought I haven’t seen them lately and looked it up to see if they were around. I moved across the country and thought maybe they were a regional thing but after looking online I saw there was a couple nearby and figured I just never noticed them. Crazy to see like a week later I find this video

I would say file a class action lawsuit and get all y'all's money.. but they don't have it to give you, so. 😢

Look, at the end of the day, you're still the most entertained man of all time. You've got 2300 pieces of film in your possession

As a physical media collector I've seen this more than once. The biggest one was with Blockbuster, I remember as a kid at the time my dad bought many of the Dvd's for cheap
when I guess they were deciding to liquidate all their assets, so those DVDs had to be sold even it it were for just pennies on the dollar. This was also around the same time when Gamecrazy the blockbuster version for games started closing their store and had also gone under. Sad thing was both these stores were usually tied to the hip because the blockbuster and gamecrazy stores would be conjoined together where you can literally go each of the store without having to pass through a door, that time too they were selling the games for cheap. I don't know how that would work with redbox, but at least you can make some money back selling those loose DVD's.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think there's a very high chance that someone will end up in jail if you guys make a class action lawsuit

If legal you should sell the dvds or maybe start your own dvd renting service in your local area.

I'm not surprised to hear they had to take out a loan to pay their employees, but I'm surprised that employees were surprised by that. Y'know, you're the boots on the ground, surely you see that the business isn't doing well in any location, there was no way they were anywhere close to breakeven, nevermind profitable.
I know you said you saw the writing on the wall, it's just a pity others didn't. I hope you all find better, stable jobs at companies that have a reliable business model.

Payroll taxes you think are paid/withheld may not be.

The company stealing people money in not only normal pay, but stealing health insurance, etc need to take all their millions and then locked up for years. Sounds criminal to me.

Who’s removing all their kiosk’s?