May 25th, 2017
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BBC Store To Close on 1st November 2017
“Although you will still be able to watch your purchases until then, from now on we are no longer making programmes available to buy on BBC Store.
If you are a BBC Store customer, you can find out all you need to know here.
If you recently purchased a series pass, those remaining episodes will still appear in My Programmes.
The BBC will continue to find new ways of making BBC archive content available. And do remember that programmes on BBC iPlayer are now available to watch for up to 30 days after broadcast, alongside a range of complete series and fascinating collections.
Our sincere thanks for being part of BBC Store. We do hope you enjoyed discovering some wonderful programmes, old and new!”
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Floppy Who
May 26th, 2017 - 10:29pmLike many of you on here, I haven’t used BBC Store, but was a big user of the BBC Shop. I guess the product portfolio bods at the Beeb didn’t do their “Porter’s Five Forces” properly….
Bring back the “BBC Goodies” shops..!
(Now there is a chain of shops from the early 1980s that I remember with fondness)
100,000BC
May 26th, 2017 - 8:54pm“The BBC will continue to find new ways of making archive content available”… So what next? Deals with Netflix and the like? An expansion of iPlayer (like channel 4’s All 4) for programmes which have sold out on DVD? Even relatively recent shows like Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes have been discontinued on DVD and it would be a shame to waste all of the brilliant programmes they have made… Not to mention classics like I Claudius, Dad’s Army and Fawlty Towers…
Judooning
May 26th, 2017 - 3:16pmGot a £60 refund from them. I quite liked it. I started purchasing a few series from there. It was a nice little place to store all my Doctor Who/Torchwood stuff online all in one place.
Ian zygon
May 26th, 2017 - 8:31am60 years of television and nothing was released that you couldn’t get on dvd I am not surprised. People would have bought more if it was something different !
Doctor Mysterio
May 27th, 2017 - 10:52pmI’d found a few things I couldn’t get on dvd. Rik Mayall’s Kevin Turvey special, the Around The World in 80 Days 20 Years On, some interesting documentaries. It’s a shame as it would have been good to keep them.
Kevin Bunker
May 26th, 2017 - 4:01amI still like to buy a physical item, never been a fan of a purchase that isn’t really mine. Did wonder if the store would go the way of the shop, that was the thing I miss, used it all the time.
Doctor Mysterio
May 25th, 2017 - 6:43pmIt was a strange thing, the BBC Store. You could buy and steam classics like Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers, which is fair enough and would probably have sold, but then they’d add 100’s of episodes of Doctors or Home Under The Hammer, which probably didn’t sell yet still had to be supported. It was nice to get to see some classics seen again, like I, Claudius, but they really should have targeted their content more into classic comedy and drama.
LastOfTheSonics
May 25th, 2017 - 6:17pmDoes that mean I won’t be able to watch anything I’ve bought?
booboo
May 25th, 2017 - 6:27pmafter November no, before that if you go for the refund now
Doctor Mysterio
May 25th, 2017 - 6:44pmAt least they will refund you.
LastOfTheSonics
May 27th, 2017 - 9:28amJust done the refund request. Only £10 worth of episodes, but I’d rather have a refund than a waste of money.
Joshua B
May 25th, 2017 - 6:05pmThis better not effect potential for more Animated Remasters, seeing the BBC really was pushing Power Of The Daleks through BBC Store
booboo
May 25th, 2017 - 6:28pmdon’t think it will effect it at all to be honest
Sean Bassett
May 25th, 2017 - 5:42pmBring back the BBC Shop!
I’m not the doctor of your wondering.
May 25th, 2017 - 10:08pmI agree
Philip
May 25th, 2017 - 5:28pmI’m not suprised by this. I purchased the Dad’s army animated episode ‘a stripe for Fraser’ then realised I couldn’t download it to a stick or put it on a disc so my friends could watch it. Had to watch it on the PC only, and even then it was streamed from the BBC so was never mine…
Weeping Ange
May 25th, 2017 - 5:14pmThey removed the bbc shop and replaced it with bbc store which was just open for one year! I dont like this idea and have never bought anything from it. Not a suprise to be honest, i didnt think it would last this long anyway. Bring back BBC SHOP! Also what are they going to replace it with….
Weeping Angel
May 25th, 2017 - 5:14pmthat was me^^^^
Who?
May 25th, 2017 - 5:36pmAgree with every word you say. What was wrong with the Shop in the first place? The only thing I can think is that they didn’t want to hold stock.
booboo
May 25th, 2017 - 6:29pmprobably because the running costs started to exceed profits
Weeping Angel
May 25th, 2017 - 5:53pmIkr
The Dalek Whovian
May 25th, 2017 - 4:55pmThe BBC Store never appealed to me (and it seems to many other fans as well). I think replacing the BBC shop with this was a huge mistake, since many fans prefer collecting physical DVDs rather than downloads.To me this service always felt like some sort of wanna be competitor to Netflix. So please BBC release more DVDs instead and maybe make a deal with Netflix to do some Doctor Who spin offs.
Doctor Mysterio
May 25th, 2017 - 4:25pmAt least they are refunding people for their purchases.
Michael
May 25th, 2017 - 3:44pmnot surprised by this tbh
prototype dalek
May 25th, 2017 - 1:59pmHow surprised are you at this news booboo?
booboo
May 25th, 2017 - 2:02pmif I’m honest not very, most of what people want to watch is available on other platforms, especially Doctor Who
prototype dalek
May 25th, 2017 - 2:22pmI agree, sometimes I use them and also a lot of people already might have the DVD of many episodes already. In the space of about a year and a half we have lost the BBC Store and the BBC Shop
booboo
May 25th, 2017 - 2:26pmI would imagine in both cases they were costing more to run than they were making
prototype dalek
May 25th, 2017 - 3:15pmShame more about the BBC Shop though, BBC store I sort of expected
booboo
May 25th, 2017 - 3:32pmreally miss the BBC shop, especially as no one has filled their shoes by importing some of vast range of USA items
prototype dalek
May 25th, 2017 - 3:41pmWould do wonders for the market if a company did, like the BBC Shop. It’s also a shame about the huge costs of BBC America Postage If it was less then I would certainly use it more to get items that we use to get before, now the postage can sometimes out weigh the total cost of the item
Anonymous
May 27th, 2017 - 1:44pmI had accounts with both the UK & USA BBC Stores. After the UK one closed down the USA one stopped shipping to the UK & eventually the rest of the world. Now they only cover the US & Canada. I spent a small fortune with both.