Blinkbox free £10 offer Wednesday 12th

frazzbo
frazzbo Posts: 146 Forumite
edited 12 May 2010 at 11:47AM in Discount codes & vouchers
From this week's money saving email:

Urgent! 15,000 free £10 voucher codes for film/TV download site blinkbox
ALL Major New Releases - starts Wednesday 12:30PM

TV & Film streaming site blinkbox is offering 15,000 MoneySavers a free tenner's credit to try its service. To get the deal, just sign up at its site at or after 12:30PM on Wednesday 12 May, choose what you want to rent or download, and then enter the code BLINKBOX10 on the payment details page (click the link that says 'Got a voucher?' - you needn't put your card details in unless your order exceeds £10).
If you want this you'll need to be ready - the freebie codes are likely to sell out faster than last year's X-Factor hopefuls. Officially, the code expires at midnight on Friday 16 May, but it's very unlikely there'll be any left by then - and of course there's a chance the heavy traffic may cause its site problems.

I was wondering.............
Does anybody know whether you would need to download the film straight away if you sign up to this? I'll be at work when the offer is released (12.30pm) and would be able to sign up to it, but there would be no use downloading the film on my work PC because I won't be able to watch it there.
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Comments

  • pig_let_cool
    pig_let_cool Posts: 1,127 Forumite
    Well even if you have to buy it immediatley (which i believe you will its basically 15000 vouchers) you dont have to download it immediatley after purchase, you can buy it and download at home :) it will save it into your video library :)
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  • lkmc01
    lkmc01 Posts: 967 Forumite
    so let me get this right.... we will only be able to watch it online after purchasing
  • Zanderman
    Zanderman Posts: 4,851 Forumite
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    edited 12 May 2010 at 11:21AM
    lkmc01 wrote: »
    so let me get this right.... we will only be able to watch it online after purchasing

    No. You can watch on or offline.

    You register, then you purchase. And then you watch on or offline:

    If you purchase a rental you can watch online, or download the whole film to watch later. For rentals the download will only play for 24 hours after you first start watching (so you can download and watch it a month later if you like - as long as its the first time).

    If you buy the film (ie not a rental) you download it and watch it whenever you like, as often as you like.

    The only downside I know of is that watching it on your pc or laptop screen can be clumsy - but if you wire this up to your TV it should be much better.

    Note than downloads do not have to happen immediately after purchase - so buy and do the download later.

    (And the downloads are a lot quicker (though still take 30-60 minutes for long films) with a wired connection rather than using wireless. So plug your laptop into the router to download - and leave it on overnight if necessary)
  • if i use the code once to for instance rent a 2:99 movie then will i still be able to use the code again to buy a seperate 4:99 movie?
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    They have some really interesting free movies on there too (amongst all the yuck ones) - fairly arty, like Distant Voices Still Lives, but good.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • lkmc01
    lkmc01 Posts: 967 Forumite
    so can i add 2 or 3 dvd's if their combined total comes under a tenner and still use the voucher code?
  • jamespir
    jamespir Posts: 21,456 Forumite
    if i use the code once to for instance rent a 2:99 movie then will i still be able to use the code again to buy a seperate 4:99 movie?

    no you can only use it once
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  • This is working already - i just purchased Avatar for 0p!! Fantastic, my hubby will love me even more now!!
  • spora
    spora Posts: 1,117 Forumite
    wow im pretty surprised at how easy it was to 'buy' a film. Normally with these types of offers you spend ages trying to get the page to load and then having to refresh it because it crashes. I had no problems with this offer what so ever. Well done blinkbox! :)
  • moorhen_2
    moorhen_2 Posts: 201 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I keep trying to put this voucher towards Planet Earth (whole series £11.99) but I just get "Sorry, that voucher isn't valid with this title." :(
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