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Dave Taylor has a Redbox video rental kiosk near his house, and he wrote up a review of the $1 per night DVD rental service, The next evolutionary step in DVD rentals: Redbox. Redbox is owned by McDonald's and and located near select restaurants.
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Haven't had personal experience with these machines, but they seem like a great way to suppliment a Netflix (or Blockbuster, Greencine, etc) subscription - very useful if you feel like watching a movie but don't currently have any titles at home, or if you want to get a new release but it's on an extended waitlist. Doesn't seem like it'd be a good primary rental source though, due to the lack of selection (reminds me of when I used to rent DVDs at Longs a few years ago - 99 cents a night, but not that many titles available...)
Posted by: | July 21, 2005 at 04:23 AM
A friend of mine lives in a densely populated area. She says she sometimes visits two or three different locations only to find all the movies she wants are out of stock in all of them.
On the one hand, that means to boxes are popular. On the other hand, how many times are you going to drive out only to find there's nothing to rent?
Posted by: | July 21, 2005 at 01:15 PM
Checking out redbox.com, I was amazed at how this is one rental company that isn't afraid of getting a few phone calls when their customers have problems. I for one look forward to the day that they add their service to the Cleveland area.
Posted by: Dr. Metal | July 23, 2005 at 07:27 AM
Free DVD rental code: KRISTO. It will only work in Salt Lake City, Houston and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Disclaimer: This is part of a contest that RedBox is putting on to see who can the most people to use their free DVD code.
Posted by: Kris L | August 21, 2005 at 09:28 PM
Free Redbox rental, Use code UDOHVi1 in the Promo Code area at all participating McDonalds and receive a free rental....Enjoy
Posted by: Tori2 | August 24, 2005 at 11:42 AM
Free Redbox rental, Use code TIMOTH22 in the Promo Code area at all participating McDonalds and receive a free rental....Enjoy
Posted by: Tim | August 24, 2005 at 12:56 PM
A couple more free codes: OSTERH1 and OSTERH2
Posted by: Chris | August 28, 2005 at 03:37 PM
Use my promo code for a free rental!!!! Code: ALCAZA
Posted by: daniel | August 29, 2005 at 11:29 AM
What is the stock symbol for Red Box?
Posted by: | September 01, 2005 at 12:31 PM
A few more free codes Wadman, Wadman1, and DVD
Posted by: nate | September 04, 2005 at 02:38 PM
Here's my code for a free rental:ANDERS129
Posted by: Marcy Anderson | September 14, 2005 at 03:50 PM
Another code for a free rental: ETCAND
Posted by: Al | September 14, 2005 at 03:51 PM
Free Rental code: DVD works in MN
Posted by: Sam Lane | October 22, 2005 at 11:32 PM
I just finished a redbox survey for a promo code. the code they gave me is "leaves" haven't tried it yet, but it says the code is good until nov. 14th
Posted by: Ryan | October 31, 2005 at 01:35 PM
In houston try GHAFOO
Posted by: Kutha | December 10, 2005 at 11:02 PM
A great site with all of the up-to-date Redbox codes and news, as well as other dvd rental information:
http://www.redboxcodes.com/
Definitely worth checking out!
Posted by: Derrick | January 10, 2006 at 06:45 PM
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Posted by: Redbox codes | January 24, 2006 at 08:04 PM
death sentence is not working fadding in and out
Posted by: joan beckner | April 12, 2008 at 06:56 PM
won,t use this service again
Posted by: joan beckner | April 12, 2008 at 07:00 PM
You Can get free movies from a Red Box. I havent tried it yet. Rent the DVD as usual, when the DVD comes out you dont take it out just hold it. Then its going to suck it in but on the 3rd time of it sucking in you take it out and if you did it right the its going to say that there was an error and your account wont be charged. ENJOY!!
Posted by: Pavlo | June 09, 2008 at 04:18 PM
You Can get free movies from a Red Box. I havent tried it yet. Rent the DVD as usual, when the DVD comes out you dont take it out just hold it. Then its going to suck it in but on the 3rd time of it sucking in you take it out and if you did it right the its going to say that there was an error and your account wont be charged. ENJOY!!
Posted by: Pavlo | June 09, 2008 at 04:20 PM
I love the fact that you can get free movies thanks to the free codes. Luckily you don't have to get these only by text message now that sites like http://redboxcodes.info are poppin up.
Posted by: BrendaMarie | July 18, 2008 at 08:41 AM
BEWARE: the kiosks can malfunction and not recognize a return, causing a charge for the full sales amount of the video. After renting many times with no problem, one rental was returned at the kiosk, the touch screen said "dvd returned sucessfully" but I never received an email confirming the return. A month later, I get an email notice saying they are charging me $26.94 in additional to the daily $1 daily rental fee. When I called their customer service, they refused to acknowledge any possibility of a technical malfunction, and insisted that the only thing they can do for me is to give me a discount of $10 off the $26.94.
Posted by: Briggitte Mulholland | July 28, 2008 at 09:58 PM
BEWARE: the kiosks can malfunction and not recognize a return, causing a charge for the full sales amount of the video. After renting many times with no problem, one rental was returned at the kiosk, the touch screen said "dvd returned sucessfully" but I never received an email confirming the return. A month later, I get an email notice saying they are charging me $26.94 in additional to the daily $1 daily rental fee. When I called their customer service, they refused to acknowledge any possibility of a technical malfunction, and insisted that the only thing they can do for me is to give me a discount of $10 off the $26.94.
Posted by: Briggitte Mulholland | July 28, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Briggitte, why didn't you call customer service after not receiving a confirmation email?
Posted by: Lois | September 06, 2008 at 09:43 AM