Cheap DVD Rental

taung

A new company has entered into the online DVD rental market;

http://www.moviestar.ie

Unlimited DVD rental is a tenner a month and you get a free DVD player if you join up now and stay a member for four months......

amby666

taung wrote:

A new company has entered into the online DVD rental market;

http://www.moviestar.ie

Unlimited DVD rental is a tenner a month and you get a free DVD player if you join up now and stay a member for four months......

Isn't that covered in two other threads further down the page??

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054889340

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054956503&page=6



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whatsupdoc?

Another plug for the company but I'd read this before I go rushing in to join

Re Moviestar

Set up by the McConnon brothers??? need i say anything. why anyone would give that pair E1 i don’t know. see the Mirror story entitled “cheque creeps”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/mirrori...ame_index.html

need i say more

taung

Thanks for the warning. Wouldn't touch these guys with a barge pole after reading that "Mirror" article;

link here

Sponge Bob

And if you give those guys any of your personal details ...or a credit card number God forbid to get their 'free trial' ....

That doesn't help Nin Hammond very much though. Her details have now been sold to other competition companies, and she has been inundated with mail.

from the lower half of this BBC page here

This thread should be deleted or stickied, I am not sure which

Alter-Ego

Just a note on the "Free" dvd player. If you don't stay with them for 4 months they charge you €45 for the dvd player.

oneweb

BWAHAHAHA, some spa's pimping backfired horrendously with great comedic effect SUFFER silly rip-off merchants!

Cooee

....why would I not use this company?

I am assuming the DVDs will get delivered.....
that I will be billed at the level I signed up for.

Am I missing something?

mcgovern

Cooee wrote:

....why would I not use this company?

I am assuming the DVDs will get delivered.....
that I will be billed at the level I signed up for.

Am I missing something?

All your details will be sold and you will be bombarded with junk mail.

Cooee

....they are governed by the Data Protection Act. Their privacy policy from the web site states (see below):

So if I opt out and click all of the correct check boxes then that should not be a problem.
So I ask again - other than the morality of giving these guys money based on their previous business history, why would I not use a service half the price of competitors. Now yes I will take all of the normal advice (if it is so cheap why can't the others do it for this price

If you register as a Moviestar.ie member, we will use your personal information held within the Your Account section of the website for the purposes of maintaining your account and continued access to the Moviestar.ie website;
to promote and market Moviestar Services to you, unless you opt-out of receiving such marketing information; and
to promote and market third party services which may be of interest to you, if you elect to opt-in to receive such marketing. In addition to the above uses we will use your personal information to:
provide you with such services (including sending you DVDs, enabling you to download films, communicating with you regarding your account and charging you);
verify your eligibility to receive a free trial of our service (if applicable);
keep records of your use of Moviestar services, for business recording purposes and to tailor services and related communications to meet your requirements; and
tell you about changes to Moviestar Services.
Your personal information is used by us only. We will not sell or disclose your personal information to any third party without your permission, except where we are required or permitted by law to do so. You agree that we may disclose your personal information to relevant authorities, parties and/or applicable intellectual property rights holders (or their representatives) if we have reasonable grounds to believe that you have breached our Terms and Conditions or to anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and obligations.
We use general information collected to:
Send you your DVD selections;
Recommend additional DVDs that you might want to rent; and improve the usability of our site.
We may provide aggregate statistical information (e.g. number of customers in each post code, most popular DVD titles rented, etc) to suppliers or other partners in order to improve our service and business. Such information will never include data that may identify you personally.

Sponge Bob

With their pedigree I have only two observations to make.

1. Sure cooee, give them your credit card details and no worries mate
2. and Not before Hell freezes over.

Have you seen the sections of the new Consumer Bill that have specifically been written because of these guys and their 'promotion' activities ?????

Ruu_Old

So does moviestar actually deliver the DVDs on time, provide a decent service or not? Otherwise this is headed for the bin.

MunsterCycling

I'd prefer to see something like this stickied and locked rather than deleted to warn off the gulible.


MC

Ruu_Old

Ok i'll tidy it up later, do some more reading on these chaps and sticky.