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Took out a free trial with WilkinsonsPlus which is powered by mymoviestream. It said you would get a free £5 WilkinsonsPlus voucher also. However when the confirmation finally came down (4 days after signing up) it said the voucher was only for £5 off a £30 spend. I doubled checked and nowhere on the initial email, or the information on there website does it say this. :mad: The level of service was also pretty poor, slow turnaround and never got anything from anywhere near the top of my list.

skibster

Platinum_Horse wrote: »

We've been with Blockbuster DVD by post for about 3 years now, I'd say, and we've always received films within the top 5 of our list as far as I can remember. But this is the first time we've used them at such high volumes. FWIW Jan we had 12 films but previous months we'd fluctuate between 5-8 a month.

When you were getting 5-8 a month, which plan were you on? Unlimited one at home, two at home, or three at home at a time? And were you getting mostly movies released in the past year, or older ones? All of this impacts on when Blockbuster decides to start skipping your top picks.

We're going to sign up with Blockbuster again soon, and I know when we took 12 or more out a month on the 3 at home plan, we soon found ourselves unable to get any recent movies (or even ones years old if they were high on our list!). I'll reign in our return rate if it will mean we can keep getting our top choices.

Platinum_Horse

Currently we have out:
Kill Bill 2
Die Hard 4
(both arrived today)
Pirates of the Caribbean (arrived end Feb)

Our Top 20 List currently is:

Run, Fat Boy, Run
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Hot Fuzz
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Must Love Dogs
Satrdust
Rendition
National Treasure
Stormbreaker
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1 - Disc 1
Motorcycle Diaries, The
Kenny
You, Me And Dupree
The Break Up
March of The Penguins
Serenity
Living in Obilivion
Clerks 2
Snakes On a Plane
Simpsons – Season 9


DVDS we had in Feb were:
24 Sereis 6 – parts 3-6
Bones Sereis 2 parts 1 –5
The Incredibles
Ratatouille
Bourne Ultimatum
Blades Of Glory

In previous months our movies were different – December the OH gets the last word so we had 2 x Mickey Mouse Xmas DVDs, Santa Cluase 3, Muppets Christmas, hoodwinked and Little Miss Sunshine

These were our rentals in the months prior:

30 Nov 07 Scrooged
27 Nov 07 Grinch, The
27 Nov 07 Polar Express
20 Nov 07 Pan's Labyrinth
14 Nov 07 Nacho Libre
09 Nov 07 Bones - Season 2 - Part 1
09 Nov 07 Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
09 Nov 07 Miracle On 34th Street
17 Oct 07 Garfield 2 : A Tale of Two Kitties
16 Oct 07 Spider-Man 3
04 Oct 07 Flushed Away
03 Oct 07 Monster House
21 Sep 07 Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
12 Sep 07 Lord Of War
12 Sep 07 My Super Ex Girlfriend
04 Sep 07 Superman Returns
23 Aug 07 Hot Fuzz
10 Aug 07 Alien Autopsy
10 Aug 07 Fun With !!!!!! And Jane

In all this time we were on the same package of 3 unlimited rentals.
Don’t know if that helps at all?

skibster

Platinum_Horse wrote: »

Currently we have out:

In all this time we were on the same package of 3 unlimited rentals.
Don’t know if that helps at all?

Thanks for going to all that trouble! Yes, it does help. It looks like you got fewer movies than we would, and less new releases. Since I know we won't keep it to 8 movies a month with older ones mixed in, we may as well join in the next month or two, watch movies like crazy, and then cancel after a couple of months when they "punish" us for being high-volume users.

luckyjasond

I used to be member of Lovefilm ages ago but fed up with the slow turnover towards the end. Someone posted the "3 months free trial" code, so despite all the warnings I thought I would give it a go.

Got my first 3 disc today, I was really looking forward to watch one of them tonight, which turned out to be a French art film which has never been on my list, so they mixed it up.

Not a good start...

saggingvenus

Hi

I've just joined LoveFilm - could somone please tell me how I can view whether they are sending me a film yet? Thanks.

Just seen it says I am due 1 despatch, guess that's my answer!

Platinum_Horse

We had our next 2 DVD's come through (posted 2 back Saturday) and they were:
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Hot Fuzz

So no Run Fat boy Run - which is at the top, but 2 from our top 3. The other DVD was posted on Sunday, so we should get next DVD tomorrow - fingers crossed for Run Fat Boy- otherwise it'll be another Harry Potter!

Yay - Run Fat Boy, Run came yesterday! So, still no problems with blockbuster!

toshkininny

hello, just a quick question. Am I right in thinking in how it works is as soon as you finish with a DVD and send it back they send you another one?

I would only want a DVD once in a while, so is it really worth joining these companies?

I am asking because I want to cancel the sky+ movies option to save a bit of money, and wondering whether to take one of these out instead ?

Thanks.

helwarren

toshkininny wrote: »

hello, just a quick question. Am I right in thinking in how it works is as soon as you finish with a DVD and send it back they send you another one?

I would only want a DVD once in a while, so is it really worth joining these companies?

I am asking because I want to cancel the sky+ movies option to save a bit of money, and wondering whether to take one of these out instead ?

Thanks.

Lovefilm do a pay as you go service where you buy credits, am thinking about it myself but not sure if you still have to do the list thing like other rental sites or if you can literally chose what you want and when -anyone else used this -and if so can you get new releases easily?

DONZERELLA

moviestream was just awful. Truly awful.

We had so few dvds in our trial period that we would NEVER consider using them.

i cancelled the membership as per the terms of the free trial and lo and behold they claimed not to have received the dvds and charged us £12.99 for A SECOND MONTH.

There is NO customer service - no-one answers the phone and no-one replies to emails until normally about three days later.

They eventually emailed me asking me to email a copy of the proof of postage (by his time they had received the dvds and had confirmed this) and gave me a non existent email address.

My dh has had to cancel his card as he is worried (esp after reading stuff on this forum) that they will continue to take £ from his account.

Do not touch moviestream - spread the word!

Dx