ATTN: Blockbuster Online Subscribers!

[cmy330go]

I don't think this has been discussed before. If it has....my bad.

Anyway, last week I chose to use my monthly free rental coupon to rent NCAA '08 Football for XBOX 360. When I got it home I noticed the receipt said if I chose to keep the game past a certain date that my account would be charged $34.99. ONLY $34.99 for a game that is still selling for $59 new. Sure you might be able to get a better price on a used one from eBay, but we all know that can be a bit risky.

My only reservation about keeping the game was that it was in a generic blockbuster case. But all I had to do was tell them that I wanted to keep the game and they gave me the original display case off the shelf.

So as far as I can see there really is no downside to this. I got to try the game for free, the disc was in perfect shape, it had the original instruction booklet, and I even got the original case! Not bad for 35 bucks.

[Bill Ayotte]

Haha, now that is awesome. I wonder how much money they make on that....

[bdaley6509]

Good find. Gonna try that out today.

[tibasnatch]

monthly free rental coupon? I thought they stopped that?? I havent got those in a while thats why I switched to netflix...but im gonna go back to blockbuster next week, cant beat the 5 in store exchanges.

[bobman1235]

Even with the in-store exchanges, I finally switched from BB Online to Netflix, and haven't looked back yet. The whole reason I went with online is so I didn't have to go to the store, and yet I was going every week to do exchanges. Plus their website is unbearable compared with Netflix, and Blockbuster completely ignores your queue order.

Unfortunately for you gamers, they don't do games, so you're stuck.

[tibasnatch]

u know with blockbuster u dont have to take it to the store u can drop in the mailbox at home, instore exchange is a hugh bonus....but I dont think we still get the free game rental coupon do we?

[SolidSqual]

****, you let the scam out of the bag. This is how I got Assassins Creed and Bioshock New for similar price.

[bobman1235]

u know with blockbuster u dont have to take it to the store u can drop in the mailbox at home, instore exchange is a hugh bonus....but I dont think we still get the free game rental coupon do we?

Yes, but knowing I COULD exchange them in-store, I ended up doing it every week :)

Plus, for someone that doesn't rent video games, that's the ONLY benefit they have over Netflix. Netflix does everything better, so if I wasn't doing in-store exchanges it wasn't worth keeping BB.

[tibasnatch]

true....one thing that sucks for netflix and blockbuster is i just got a ps3 for bluray and games, but every new blu-ray on both sites have either long waits or very long waits...sucks....