Blockbuster Express: 6 Free Movie Codes

GL14A is good, too.

Are these codes like Coke reward codes? Unique codes where only one person can use them or can anyone use the codes?

Can you contest the charges with your credit card company (use credit instead of debit for this)? If the machine said free rental and you return it within the free time period, you shouldn't have to pay? They shouldn't bill you after the fact, its just bad business.

Hey thanks, it says there is one near me on the corner gas station, I'll have to look !

Oddly, they've "taken over" several of the kiosks that used to be Redbox around here. I don't know if the Redbox contracts lapsed, or whether BB just bought their way into the spots. Ironically, one of them is inside a grocery store where you can actually see a physical BB location while you're checking out an express DVD. Forget cannibalism...that's like an admission that your business model has failed.

Stranger2000 said: Blockbuster's every attempt to modernize their business has been a failure. I used their Netflix-like movies by mail service, and it was awful -- really badly managed and executed. I'm not surprised their Johnny-come-lately kiosks are also buggy.

Must be your area. Blockbuster Online is much better than Netflix in my area. Blockbuster kicks Netflix's butt out here. Faster delivery times and you get the movies you want more quickly.

thx!

ablang said: My closest kiosk is 11.99 miles away. I guess I'm lucky. They've made my decision not to participate easy for me.

Is that approximately 11.99 miles?

cows123 said: You must live in a really different place than I do. Netflix videos come in about a day. When I tried Blockbuster online, videos took days to come. I get twice as many during the same time period with Netflix.

Back when I had Netflix the first time (02-03), it was typically almost a week turnaround for a disc, door-to-door. This obviously gets annoying. These days, however, Netflix themselves advertise 2 day turnarounds for 80%(?) of the US, and one additional day for almost everyone else. They've increased their distribution centers 4x or 5x in the past 6-8 years.

I hated Netflix in those early days, but now it's the model of efficiency.

cows123 said: riznick said: Stranger2000 said: Blockbuster's every attempt to modernize their business has been a failure. I used their Netflix-like movies by mail service, and it was awful -- really badly managed and executed. I'm not surprised their Johnny-come-lately kiosks are also buggy.

Must be your area. Blockbuster Online is much better than Netflix in my area. Blockbuster kicks Netflix's butt out here. Faster delivery times and you get the movies you want more quickly.

You must live in a really different place than I do. Netflix videos come in about a day. When I tried Blockbuster online, videos took days to come. I get twice as many during the same time period with Netflix.
I get blockbuster in less than a day of shipment (lets say 1 day turnaround). I signed up on a Monday night and got my movies on Tuesday. Netflix was about 1 day, but sometimes took 2. I live next to the distribution centers for both.

With blockbuster, I also get to exchange my returns with instore rentals. An optimal week would be (if I had the time). Monday I get 3 DVD's, I can possibly watch them and return them on Monday and get 3 more. I could also return those on Monday. By the time I get the 3 movies returned on Monday, they would probably ship more on Tuesday. I get them on Wednesday and can do the cycle again. That gives me a possible 18 movies per week. I am curious if I returned them early enough in the day that I would get more the next day... Anyhow, with BB, you don't have to wait for the mail to get back to the distribution center.

Also, I posted in OT, my frustrations with Netflix over a 6 month period. I had to wait until like May for movies I put in my top 20 in November. This wasn't a fluke, as it happened with all of my top 20. It takes longer to get new releases with Netflix. Long waits at Blockbuster mean almost nothing as I get everything quickly.

Couple more ripped from googling...
SSD17A2
SSD17A3
SSD17A4

riznick said: Stranger2000 said: Blockbuster's every attempt to modernize their business has been a failure. I used their Netflix-like movies by mail service, and it was awful -- really badly managed and executed. I'm not surprised their Johnny-come-lately kiosks are also buggy.

Must be your area. Blockbuster Online is much better than Netflix in my area. Blockbuster kicks Netflix's butt out here. Faster delivery times and you get the movies you want more quickly.

Same here. BB Sucks!

cows123 said: riznick said: Stranger2000 said: Blockbuster's every attempt to modernize their business has been a failure. I used their Netflix-like movies by mail service, and it was awful -- really badly managed and executed. I'm not surprised their Johnny-come-lately kiosks are also buggy.

Must be your area. Blockbuster Online is much better than Netflix in my area. Blockbuster kicks Netflix's butt out here. Faster delivery times and you get the movies you want more quickly.

You must live in a really different place than I do. Netflix videos come in about a day. When I tried Blockbuster online, videos took days to come. I get twice as many during the same time period with Netflix.

I've used both. There is no difference. They're both very efficient. I just don't have time to watch videos to make it worth my monthly fee. It's much more cost effective for me to rent at Redbox. The only con is I can't always rent the movie I want whereas with Netflix or BB, I can at least request them by putting them in my queue.

mediaslave said: I've been stiffed several times by their kiosks. It will report that your code worked and still bill you for the movie. This has happened on 5 of 8 rentals. Buyer beware.

I agree. Be aware of overcharging. I contacted customer service and she said it just looked like I was being charged and the charges would be removed the next day. The charges stayed and when I emailed customer service, they told me I had to call. So guess what I was told once I called.

GT14A worked for me and i did not get charged when i returned it

Does BBE allow the same code to be used several times with different CCs? When I get a free code with redbox I can use it several times by just using it with different cards each time.

VaIhalla said: do these kiosks offer blu-ray titles? yes they have blu-ray and some 3d also

The following codes did NOT work for me yesterday (in Washington State)they were all rejected as invalid:
SSD16A2
SSD16A3
SSD16A4

VaIhalla said: do these kiosks offer blu-ray titles?

If memory serves me correctly, I think I checked a box at my local safeway and they have a VERY limited selection of Blueray movies.

Rambler, don't be rude to other members, please. You should know better.

I have a new code that I got in an email yesterday. Tried it last night and it works for my area.

GT17B