If you've been to a convenience store or supermarket in a city recently, you've probably seen the Redbox video rental machines. For the uninitiated, they're little kiosks where you can slide a credit card and rent a DVD at a cost of a dollar per day. Now, in some places, they will be vending videogame rentals as well.
An e-mail sent out by Redbox to customers in Reno, Nevada announced the availability of game rentals. Games will run $2 a day, which is reasonable if you're only expecting to have the game for a day or two, but isn't a considerable value for any longer than that when compared to major rental chains like Hollywood Video and Blockbuster.
It seems like a test-market thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets rolled out nationwide in the near-future. Everytime I go to my local gas station, there is always someone renting something from the Redbox there, so the service seems popular. Would you rent a game from a Redbox at these prices?
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11:20 AM on 08.17.2009
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You have to pay with a debit/credit card, every day you keep your movie is another dollar charged to you.
if theres some scanning sticker or what ever just scan it and print one out on a label.
I'm pretty sure they put some tamperproofing on the stickers to try to prevent that but occasionally some get past that. It's surprisingly rare at the redboxes that I frequent considering how rampant shoplifters are in those stores.
Also, didn't gamefly try this?
Those empty cases are for people who misplace the case that came with the dvd they rented since the barcode sticker is on the disc they can take an empty case and return the dvd since they can't just stick the dvd in by itself.