Comments on: Redbox Going Public – IPO on the way…

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:24:06 +0000

Anyone heard the latest on the IPO? Anyone speculate what the price will be?

By: Infoadviser

Infoadviser — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:53:31 +0000

This is a reply to Prohmimo..You are profitable to Redbox but too dumb to know it! Just to let you know, I’m guessing you don’t or you would have mentioned it in you blog but McDonalds..(not MacDonald) maybe you were thinking of Old MacDonald had a farm…owns Redbox along with CoinStar. Do you think these very large and successful corporations don’t know what they’re doing? Do you think they would send you 2-FREE movie codes per week if they were losing money? NO…they are not losing money. There are over 8,000 Redboxes in the U.S. A couple weeks ago I received an email from Redbox thanking me for helping them set a new one day rental record of 1.1 million DVD’s. IN ONE DAY! Does that sound as if they are not making any money? The other thing I’d like to bring up is regarding Blockbuster. You mentioned a 5 day rental for $3.00? Closer to $4.00. But in any case by using Redbox over Blockbuster, you’ll be saving money. I don’t think there are many people that want to rent a movie for 5 days. I would rather rent it for 1 or 2 days with Redbox and save 2 or 3 dollars. Doesn’t that make sense? Another thing is that you said you have to wait to get a movie because there is only one Redbox on campus and you think this is a bad business decision. In fact, it is a good business decision. Redbox is testing the Campus and if all goes well, I can assure you there will be many more Redboxes installed within the next several months. Did you know that you can go online to Redbox.com and locate the nearest box to you and hold a movie in that box under your credit card? Did you also know that you can drop a movie to any Redbox. It doesn’t have to be the Redbox you rented from. You mentioned that you never see anyone renting movies from this McDonalds. I don’t think that is at all accurate, unless you work there. Unless you are there all day, I don’t see how you can make that statement. If you do work there, please forgive me because you would certainly know how many times during the day movies get rented. If you feel this Redbox is never used, why don’t you use it instead of complaining that it takes to long to rent a movie on Campus? As far as your statement… these are vending machines, and disks and disk boxes get dirty. When servicing the redboxes, they have to check to be sure everything is clean. *Very good! This is probably the only statement throughout your blog that made any real sense! Did you know that the people that put new movies in each week do clean parts of the box? The last thing, which I wanted to bring up first, is you remarks about movies-on demand. There are many people that aren’t able to order these type movies because many don’t have cable or satellite. For many reasons like the area doesn’t provide it yet, the cost is too high for many and a lot of old school out there that just like the old DVD player. Redbox doesn’t want to be a cable company. If they did, you wouldn’t have a great way to rent DVD’s at a GREAT price! So that’s it! I could go on but I don’t think you would really understand. I just hope you are not in business marketing but if you are on those lines, try thinking out-of-the-box, but not redbox!

By: john

john — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:15:24 +0000

Every single Walmart nationwide is getting a redbox.

By: john

john — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:13:36 +0000

I think redbox will do well…i use it all the time..fyi promo codes only go so far..i could see if they had 10,000 working promo codes floating around on websites for anyone to snatch up…plus u can’t use them again once you’ve entered them in.. they do have websites for promo codes but not many work…trust me i’ve tried…

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:22:55 +0000

Please let me know where to but stock before it gets to pricey and this poor girl can’t afford it, I have been trying for the last year since I first saw a “Redbox” to find out about the stock. I have a gut feeling on this one and I believe it will be a good short term investment, providing one can get in on it soon, may be that it would be a good long term investment if they market better, more kiosks and more selections even in same locations, if not bigger boxes to hold more. I could suggest a few locations that I know would benefit the company, but then I’d be giving away valuable marketing info for free and they possibly know these suggestions anyway.

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:13:17 +0000

I so agree with you and I am now trying to find out where I can invest in Redbox stock. I would love to get in on the ground floor of this and if I could put in my own machines, with more choices and more locations, I would do it in a heartbeat as I believe that this is the best deal for the buck and just about anyone with a dvd player can come up with a few bucks each week to at least catch the big name movies out. Wal-Mart and McDonalds are the perfect locations to start a francise like this, I only wish I had had the money to do it first!!!!!

By: Redbox IPO Quietly Delayed | Inside Redbox

Redbox IPO Quietly Delayed | Inside Redbox — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:56:54 +0000

[...] to my previous post, Redbox said they would file for IPO by the end of Q2 of this year. However, with June ending over [...]

By: Tev

Tev — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:58:41 +0000

Redbox delayed their IPO because of the poor market. That sucks because Redbox is getting more popular by the day. Another six months of recognition will for sure get priced into the new IPO price. IMO.

By: Luke Marcus

Luke Marcus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:08:18 +0000

Most definitely will become a major shareholder of this security. It’s the third quarter, when will this be available to the public

By: NewInformation

NewInformation — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:11:39 +0000

Yes. RedBox is good for those times for Hollywood new releases. Other than that, they have no chance to compete with the variety of video stores. Besides apple and amazon.com will be taking over this world very shortly, so before you invest too much in RedBox, diversify and pay attention to TECHNOLOGY. It is the way of the future and in this case entertainment.