06/12/03 - Walmart DVD Rentals - 30 Days Free

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Walmart is offering a Netflix type of deal. You can sign up for 30 days, choose online, receive and ship back the movies with their paid postage. Before the 30 days are over, cancel the membership online to avoid charges.

1. Click here to see details.
2. Click on Learn More
3. Click on Begin Free Trial
4. Cancel online before 30 days to avoid charges.
Final Price : Free
 
How is this any different than the Netflix free trial? NetFlix
All I see different is that you can only have two DVDs at a time with Wal-Mart's free trial and with Netflix you get three. Wal-Mart's price is about a buck cheaper per month but the site is weaker than NetFlix (although that might be because I'm used to the NetFlix site and like their recommendation system).

I would suggest using the Netflix system over Wal-Mart's even at the lower price point.
 
For netflix, they had NO return date... you could almost keep the darned thing as long as you pay the monthly bill...
 
thats why you be like me, just rent 30 days worth of movies for free. cant really complain about that
 
Gamefly.com is a sister site to Netflix. For the $20/m price, you can have two games out, the usual deal. They offer either a ten day or two week free trial, worth doing if you feel like renting a game for free, even if you can only do it once.
 
This is a great service.

I used it free for two months and paid for one more. I cancelled because there were no more dvds I wanted to rent and copy ( :twisted: ).

I will wait 6 more months till there are more dvds I want, then the renting begins. :)
 
For game rentals. http://www.numbthumbgames.com offer a 2 week free trial, and http://www.govojo.com offers a 10 day trial.

You can also check out http://www.greencine.com for a two week trial of DVDs.

Be careful with Walmart, they tend to be screwey with 'accidentally' charging your account. They'll refund you if that were to happen, but in my case it took over a week to get an e-mail response from them.

Also, the Walmart service is pretty shitty. I put about 20 DVDs on my queue, I think maybe 3 were available now. They also took 5+ days to arrive, but for free you can't really complain, eh?
 
I'm on my second week of the trial (I chose the 4 disc option for an extra $6) and so far I have been sent a total of 10 discs. It takes 2-3 days to receive them. Of course, I copy them for viewing at a later date. I recommend the service.
 
I sent Walmart customer servie an email 3 months back & haven't got a reply yet....

For games try BB rental stores $20 per month one game out any time, $35 two games.
 
The Walmart DVD service is extremely slow compared to Netflix, at least in the SF bay area. With Netflix, it takes a day for the disc to arrive from the time it's sent. With Walmart, it takes 3-7 days from the time it is sent.
 
There is a little trick to the Walmart.com trial offer. Sign up for the free service, then go back in and upgrade your account to the higher # out at one time. The thing is that Walmart doesn't charge you for the upgrade like they are supposed to.

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Another thing to consider is the number of distribution centers. WalMart "appears" to have only one in Georgia (I think), while NetFlix has about 10 or 20. All things equal, NetFlix should give a better turnaround time. But WalMart will definitely keep NetFlix from jacking up their monthly fee. :)
 
For this Walmart deal, they will charge $20 to your account for some reason i forget the lady explained to me. She said it will be put back into the account at the end of the month trial period. Guess its a safety deposit but thats not what she claimed. No big deal, i sure as hell wont forget to make sure it disappears.
 
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