Free DVD Rentals

norajg

A number of rental companies now offer free DVD rentals for a set period time if you sign up to their online DVD store. I have signed up 3 times to "Blockbusters", once to "Amazon" and once to "MYvue" and have recieved approximately 30 free DVD rentals! The contract can be cancelled with no charge providing you do this before the free period expiry date (usually 2 - 4 weeks). Some companies will allow you to rent a fixed number of DVD's rather than any number over a time period but either way you're quids in. The DVD's are deliverd in the post and you just simply watch them and then post them back - free of charge of course.

davilown

norajg wrote:

A number of rental companies now offer free DVD rentals for a set period time if you sign up to their online DVD store. I have signed up 3 times to "Blockbusters", once to "Amazon" and once to "MYvue" and have recieved approximately 30 free DVD rentals! The contract can be cancelled with no charge providing you do this before the free period expiry date (usually 2 - 4 weeks). Some companies will allow you to rent a fixed number of DVD's rather than any number over a time period but either way you're quids in. The DVD's are deliverd in the post and you just simply watch them and then post them back - free of charge of course.

Do it the sensible way through a cashback site like quidco and you'll be a £35 better off too!

:beer: monster

outbidder

I have to say how pleased I am with My Movie Stream. They have excellent prices (reduced by £1 per month for the first 6 months), give you a 2 week free trial, have over 22,000 titles (I have been unable to catch them out with any films I have been looking for yet) and the speed is second to none.

I watch a film, send it back (always get free proof of posting from the Post Office!) and it gets to them the following day when they send the next one straight out. I'm certainly getting my money's-worth and I have heard a lot of places where the service goes downhill after the free trial ends but certainly not here. Highly recommended!

Happy viewing :-)

mrbond

Just curious, how did you manage to signup 3 times for trials with Blockbuster?

outbidder

I'm not sure if you could just use a different address with the same bank details, I guess it depends on the company which details they check to see whether the same person is signing up more than once?

pigeonpie

OH sent one of our DVDs back in Amazon box and they won't return it! Does anyone have their phone no as I can't find it on the site but know it exists?

we like foreign and indie films more than the box office blockbusters so went with amazon as they have a good choice, but now reconsidering as don't always get through 3 a month. Is there one of the above where you just pay for what you rent, the DVD post is free and it's cheap with loads of choice?
Am going to resign from amazon I think. Don't even know which DVD of mine they have got as OH can't remember :rolleyes:

cheers

And is there a definitive guide to Quidco on this site or elsewhere (so that OH and I can forget to claim cashback )

norajg

The second time i did it i used the same card but a different address. The third time i did it, i used my original address but used a different credit card.

mrbond

just wondering then norajg if you used the same email address each time or a diff one? if i used a diff credit card do i need to use a different email address?

Thanks

COPPERS459_2

As far as blockbuster is concerned it goes by your house number and postcode, but a little trick is to put a,b,c,d,e after your house number (as long as you dont live in flats) that way your post person knows that it is not a flat and thinks they have put the letter on by mistake and hey presto, move free months.
Hope this helps
Steve

FreebieFi

At the moment Screen select are doing a great deal through greasypalm if you are registered with them.

https://www.greasypalm.co.uk

Free trial of 5 dvds, a free dvd of your limited choice to keep and £7 cashback through the site!

Fi

rbulph

COPPERS459 wrote:

As far as blockbuster is concerned it goes by your house number and postcode, but a little trick is to put a,b,c,d,e after your house number (as long as you dont live in flats) that way your post person knows that it is not a flat and thinks they have put the letter on by mistake and hey presto, move free months.
Hope this helps
Steve

I'm curious as to whether this deception is a criminal offence. At first I thought it would be obtaining services by deception, but s.1(2) Theft Act 1978 defines obtaining services by deception as being when payment is expected, which is not the case for a free trial. Perhaps it could be evasion of liability by deception because after the initial trial you're obliged to pay. That requires that the liability has actually been accepted or established. I suppose whether that is the case depends on the terms when you sign up, and I don't know what those are. Any criminal lawyers out there have any views? Or if COPPERS459 actually is a copper perhaps he can tell us?


1:--

(1) A person who by any deception dishonestly obtains services from another shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) It is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to confer a benefit by doing some act, or causing or permitting some act to be done, on the understanding that the benefit has been or will be paid for.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (2) above, it is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to make a loan, or to cause or permit a loan to be made, on the understanding that any payment (whether by way of interest or otherwise) will be or has been made in respect of the loan.

Evasion of Liability by deception

2:--

(1) Subject to subection (2) below, where a person by any deception--

(a) dishonestly secures the remission of the whole or part of any existing liability to make a payment, whether his own liability or another's; or

(b) with intent to make permanent default in whole or in part on any existing liability to make a payment, or with intent to let another do so, dishonestly induces the creditor or any person claiming payment on behalf of the creditor to wait for payment (whether or not the due date for payment is deferred) or to forgo payment; or

(c) dishonestly obtains any exemption from or abatement of liability to make a payment;
he shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) For purpose of this section "liabiliity" means legally enforceable liabiliity; and subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to a liability that has not been accepted or established to pay compensation for a wrongful act of admission.

(3) For purposes of subsection (1)(b) a person induced to take in payment a cheque or other security for money by way of conditional satisfaction of a pre-existing liability is to be treated not as being paid but as being induced to wait for payment.

(4) For purposes od subsection (1)(c) "obtains" includes obtaining for another or enabling another to obtain.