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Cheap DVDs or NetFlicks dumps old inventory?

Posted by holyjuan on May 15, 2005 at 08:13 AM

There is a new service for purchasing DVDs for CHEAP! Look for Peerflix.com [link]
This company (which I belive is owned by NetFlicks) will give you envelopes to send in your old or unwanted DVDs. You create a list of desired DVD's on the web site and they send you what you want for .99 and a .32 stamp as a trade.

Sounds pretty good. I'd like to know what the catch is. I'm sure you do not get the DVD case, only a paper sleeve. And I wonder how many of these DVDs are actually NetFlicks rejects that are almost at the end of their productive use. I love my NetFlicks subscription, but I have received 3 damaged DVDs that I needed to return. (I thought the Day After Tomorrow was damaged, but it turned out it was just a crappy movie.) What does NetFlicks do with these damaged DVDs? I bet they run them through their scratch remover and send them on to their PeerFlicks customers.

But hey, it is an awesome idea. What else were they going to do with the damaged DVDs? Put them in the same landfill in New Mexico with all the Atari E.T. cartridges? Hell no. Make some money.

As long as PeerFlicks return policy is VERY lenient (which it is) this sounds like a good opportunity for folks who actually like the movie rather than the one who marvel at pretty box that sit on their shelf.

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RickySilk spoke on May 15, 2005 at 08:20 AM

Sounds cool. I'll give it a shot. I don't think they're owned by Netflix though since they're using an Amazon data feed for item info (similar to how foo does it), if they were owned by Netflix they would already have all the data.

Numnuts spoke on May 15, 2005 at 09:21 AM

Hmmm... I wonder if there is a company that sells used 8-tacks tapes?

holyjuan spoke on May 16, 2005 at 05:35 PM

Me thinks you might be right. Their page layout looked NetFlickish. I was caught up in the conspiracy.

I still think NetFlicks has their finger in this. The owner of the website is out of Canada so it must be some sort of scam.

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