Comments on: Redbox Passes 500 Million Rentals

By: Redbox Expected to Hit $1 Billion in Sales in 2010 | Inside Redbox

Redbox Expected to Hit $1 Billion in Sales in 2010 | Inside Redbox — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:07:02 +0000

[...] chronicling Redbox’s history, its recent scuffles with some major Hollywood players and its rise to become one of the titans of its industry. It’s an excellent article and well worth a read [...]

By: John Small

John Small — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:39:50 +0000

You are right there. They give you stuff for free and you take it.

That is where their downfall will be.

By: John Small

John Small — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:38:06 +0000

Ah, but there lies the problem Chad.

Redbox is not playing by the same rules as everyone else.

That is what the studios are trying to get Redbox to do.

If a regular rental store does revenue sharing, they have to pay MORE than $1.00 per turn of a DVD.

If a regular rental store does not do revenue sharing, the must pay the wholesale price (which is about the same if not a little more than the Walmart retail price).

Redbox was trying to get away with doing neither one of these options.

The studios rightly stepped in and protected the market by demanding that Redbox play on a level field. If they refuse to do so, then they have to wait 28 days to get their movies directly from the studios.

Redbox does, of course, have the option of buying their movies at the wholesale/retail price if they want. However that would put Redbox out of business so they refuse to do so.

Don’t be fooled. It is Redbox that wants an uneven playing field, not the studios. Redbox is in the wrong here.

By: Stop Whining

Stop Whining — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:02:48 +0000

Ah hahahah
Shhhh, let’s keep it a secret!!
But, congrats to redbox that is a phenomenal feat, codes or no codes
Hope they are around for years to come and Michael’s bad ass site

By: Carson

Carson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:25:38 +0000

But I tell everyone I can about Redbox and the free codes, introducing new people to the service all the time, I’d like to think that Redbox and I have a give and take relationship…

By: John Small

John Small — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:22:23 +0000

Again, this makes you worthless as a consumer which renders your opinions worthless.

No company wants a customer like you Carson. Especially not Redbox.

By: Carson

Carson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:46:31 +0000

Pirates (and one step above) give fake registration information, Arg!!

All in all, this whole thing is hilarious, whatever happens, I’ll rent my DVDs the cheapest way possible, and if that ends up being $4, I’ll rent maybe 4-5 per year.

By: ChadCronin

ChadCronin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:31:45 +0000

Everyone pushes this 30 days like it’s no big deal, but it is a huge deal. They are trying to push business towards other companies and anything that hurts Redbox is bad. I have already gotten a very sour taste in my mouth over all this and have mostly stopped what was my weekly purchases of movies. For the most part now I don’t care enough on what the release date is. I just want to see one rule for everyone. If they think going back to having purchase before rental, then they can do it, but signing revenue share with some but not others, I’m not into that.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:07:42 +0000

LOL. Posts like that have made you guys the Larry, Moe, and Curley of this site.

By: Lazarus Long

Lazarus Long — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:35:37 +0000

You guys are one step above pirates. In fact I suspect if the MPAA asked for your registration info from this site they would have a fun time looking at your hard drives.

I think maybe an email to the authorities is in order. I’m sure this site doesn’t want criminals on it.