I’m thinking I’ll get my mom a year’s subscription for one of these DVD rental things for her birthday. She’s retired and has a big LCD HDTV so it seems appropriate. Anyway, is Netflix the only real option here or are there other lesser known companies that are maybe even better?
Answer 1: Netflix is so damn good. Cheap, easy, great! I see more movies now than I would have renting from a local place. I can have them as long as I like, get good recommendations. Really a great value for $14 a month.
Answer 2: Stay away from intelliflix because they deliver quickly the first couple of weeks, then you get nothing but delays. Good luck if you try to cancel subscription: you get customer email after customer email, excuse after excuse and no cancellation, they are worthless.
netflix is your best bet.
Answer 3: It’s worth checking out Blockbuster if your mom has a store near her house. When I was a member (a couple years ago), the service/price was similar to Netflix, but Blockbuster gave two free in-store rentals a month.
Answer 4: We lost a Netflix DVD and my wife called to let them know. They were great. We were told, “don’t worry about it”. We were not charged.
Answer 5: West coast netflix was found to delay the delivery of DVDs if your return rate was quick (like get 3 dvds, return them very quick, they would hold the new DVDs in your queue for a few days), still a quality and A+ service I think, though
Answer 6: I’ve had netflix for several years and love it. Very fast delivery. Frankly, I hate Blockbuster, too. It was their crappy stores and endless lines that made me decide to go to Netflix to begin with. Support the company that made the idea work.
And, yeah, I’ve lost DVDs and as long as they don’t see a regular pattern of loss (read: you appear to be stealing them) they don’t charge you.
Answer 7: Blockbuster is the way to go. On top of it being the same price, you have no contract, a free first month, free in store coupons that work on anything in the store, and here in Colorado Springs they have been doing a test according to the guys at the store I go to and here you can bring in the envelope instead of mailing it back and get whatever in store movies you want for each envelope you bring in, plus they scan the movies so it is like they are already sent back and there is no time to wait in between. They said this should go national by Nov. 2nd. I hope that helps.