Online rentals? What places exist and which is best?

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xsirxx

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Im currently looking to get an online rental membership for games. Blockbuster here charges 9$ per game so I figured 2 games a month and its already 18$.....

So does any1 know the best deal out there? Im looking to rent 2 games at a time. So I basically need suggestions on which online rentals have them in stock most of the time and how much they cost.

Thanks much!
 
i'm going to assume gamefly is the #1 video game rental service. for 2 games out at a time it's $22.95/month. they're usually pretty good about keeping games in stock, if there's something coming out soon that you want i usually just make sure it's the only game in my gameQ (your list of games you want) and send back a game a few days before the new one comes out...so basically "getting in line" before it's actually there.

blockbuster has a montly dvd program with in-store rentals but i just checked their site and the rental coupons for in-store no longer get you games but will give you a discount on the game rental...so it would probably only be 2 or 3 dollars to rent a game in-store (not positive though, never tried it)
 
Yea I have an old blockbuster plan where I was grandfathered in to getting 2 games free each month, but i wanted to be able to get more games and have them longer than 5 days if need be... I pay for that every month so I was hoping there was something cheaper than 20$ a month. My local blockbuster has a deal for around 25$ a month I believe where I can get 2 out at a time in store... which for me is fine... I wish blockbuster had a games and movie deal for 20$ a month, that would be awesome!

Thanks for the responses guys! I just was unaware if there were any new places that had popped up lately....
 
i'm also hoping for a new site to show up, i'm having problems with gamefly's shipping, which made me quit last time. they sent me threatening e-mails about cancelling my subscription if these "problems" didn't fix themselves (insinuating that i was keeping the games and reporting them as not arriving)...so i quit. now i'm interested in playing quite a few different games, and the first on i try to get (mirror's edge) hasn't showed up and it's been a week. blah.
 
There's GameZnFlix, but I remember the last time someone posted a deal for their service, a ton of CAGs told of pretty negative experiences with them.
 
I've only used GameFly (probably because it is the most popular). The biggest problem with the Online Game rental services is that all of them have very few distribution centers. I think Gamefly only has 4. One in CA, one in FL, one in PA, and they just opened a new one in the last few months in TX. And that's it as far as I know of. I couldn't imagine the competitors of GF having more distribution centers. (But hey someone can prove me wrong).

Anyway, the point is, expect 2-6 days of not having a game(there and then back), unless your post office has the equipment to scan them, which notifies GF and they ship your game earlier. Or unless of course you live near one of the distribution centers. Or unless you alternate between recieving one and game and then shipping out the other.
 
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