[2] At the time of the sale, Erol's was the nation's third largest video rental chain with 208 stores in five states and the District of Columbia.
In Chile, Juan Pablo Correa created in the late 1980s a copycat of Erol's, named locally "Errol's" (with two R's), using the same typeface and color schemes of the American one.
Services provided by Erol's Internet were basic dial-up access with e-mail accounts and web space.
At one point a five-year contract for dial-up access could be purchased for just over $300, bringing the monthly cost well below $19.95, which was the average price for all other competitors.
Later, the store moved down the street, near its old ISP headquarters, to a converted storage unit at 5232 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Va., where it operated as Erol's TV-VCR & Computer Service.