By artarmon42 | No Comments
Last updated: Thursday, May 24, 2007

The war between Netflix and Blockbuster, to win your online DVD rental business, has been going on for awhile now.

As you might have guessed, I was an early adopter of Netflix many years ago. While they have a great range of DVD titles, I was always suspect of their queue system. It always seemed that if you’re a new customer, you would get the New Releases almost immediately. But after awhile, the New Releases seem to get more and more delayed. As a test, I signed up for another account, and was able to get New Releases ahead of my older account. I quit shortly after that. Of course, that’s old news. There was a class-action lawsuit, and while “no one” admitted any wrong-doing subscribers were given a “discount” on their next bill (or a similar discount if you’d sign back up with them again).

I’d been eyeing Blockbuster’s offer for awhile now. The idea of being able to exchange my DVDs in-store was appealing. Like Netflix, they would provide free shipping to and from your home, but the concept of being able to go to your local store to exchange it was a reassurance that I wasn’t going to be screwed by any queue-system. While in-store, I could easily see if the next DVD I wanted was in-stock, and demand the exchange on-the-spot.

Anyway, it looks like Blockbuster started offering a 2-week free trial on the web. What’s better, is that there’s a coupon code that’ll boost your free trial to 1-month. When you register for the free trial just enter “morevalue32” as the “promo code”.

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