Several weekends ago I wanted to rent a movie NOW! The fastest way to do that would have been to rent it from the PS3, but the rentals there start at $2.99, or from Amazon.com, but I don't know yet how to stream it the TV.
Then I remembered seeing the Redbox at several locations just down the street. After signing up at their site, I headed out. First a stop at the store to get popcorn. So I went in the store and there is this Moviecube so I figured it must be similar to the other one, so I just rented a movie through it. I get home and watch the movie. A couple hours later I checked that redbox had sent me a code for one free rental. Hell yeah! So I decided I would return the Moviecube one early. I get to the store where the Moviecube is and the screen shows it "clocking", and someone in the store said that the machine was being restarted. I went to the redbox, rented a movie and decided to return the movicube one the next day.
Next day comes and the movicube machine is in still "clocking", so I return the redbox one and for the movicube one I had to call the customer service so they could verify and then I returned it into a black drop box on the side of the machine.
I didn't want to write this much on this... anyways the point really is My first Movicube rental experience not so good. My first Redbox movie rental experience good.
I checked their websites today and it seems Moviecube has updated their site, they have a signup section now and took a page out of redbox's playbook by offering one free movie rental for signing up.
I wonder which one of these will end up being the winner, or is there room for two ala Blockbuster and Hollywood Video?
hmmm... maybe I should just sign up for netflix or the blockbuster online...
Ya'll have a good weekend...!!!
1 comment:
Keep in mind that Netflix and Blockbuster are "membership" stores. You are charged monthly fees in addition to committing to their "plans." If you do rent way too many movies per month, I think in the end they will be cheaper for you, say you manage to rent 20 movies with $8.99-per-month-rent-one-dvd-at-time plant from Netflix. With Redbox or MovieCube, it would have cost you $20. If you rent movies only once in a while like I do, then Redbox and MovieCube are perfect. I can rent from one kiosk and return it to a kiosk in different location. That is even better.
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