Xtravision Summer Pass: €20/month for unlimited rentals

Trigger007 · 13-08-2013 12:58PM

Yes I know 'buyer beware' and all that, but when you have the guy at the desk repeatedly telling you it's unlimited from now (5th jul) until 1st sept (to other people also), it's pretty hard to refuse that offer. There was no promotional material available at that point either so logging on to their website or calling head office to confirm, wasn't something that sprung to mind. Anyway, I guess I'll know next time :-(

jay0109 · 13-08-2013 01:41PM

They should bring back this offer once the evenings get longer if they have any marketing brain anyways

long_b · 13-08-2013 01:47PM

jay0109 wrote: »

They should bring back this offer once the evenings get longer if they have any marketing brain anyways

+1

I spent a tremendous amount in sweets and rubbish for the kids while picking/dropping vids

Batesy · 13-08-2013 03:50PM

I rented 13 films in the 31 days. Great value for €20.

Found myself renting films I'd missed over the past year or so. Some great films that I'd probably not have gotten round to renting without the offer.

I'm not liking the look of my local store (Wicklow) over the past few weeks though. A lot of bare shelves and stock levels look to be dwindling. Hope it's not gearing up for a closure!

Gavin "shels" · 14-08-2013 07:09PM

jay0109 wrote: »

They should bring back this offer once the evenings get longer if they have any marketing brain anyways

If they're bringing it in again, it would have to be by October at the lastest/

Cantona's Collars · 24-10-2013 08:22PM

Gavin shels wrote: »

If they're bringing it in again, it would have to be by October at the lastest/

Bump.

You were right,the unlimited rentals is back,this time it's €25 a month for both movie and games rentals.

jmch81 · 24-10-2013 08:30PM

Link

From the webpage:

• The BEST ever line up of NEW movies and games!

• EXCLUSIVE movies you can’t see anywhere else!

• A FREE copy of One Direction: Reaching for the Stars – value €9.99

• EXCLUSIVE offers on popcorn, chocolate, Hunky Dory’s and soft drinks!

• HUGE range of movies and games to keep the whole family entertained – movie for Mum and Dad, latest game for the kids.

• Upfront entertainment – no surprise bills!

The One Direction dvd would put me off it :pac:

It also looks like they are bring in vending machines, you can use the store finder to check out the spots.

kn · 24-10-2013 09:22PM

I knew we would see this back again. Offer available to take up until November 24th.

I'll give them €30 if they did not give me the One Direction DVD.....

gtg60 · 24-10-2013 09:43PM

Jay-sus, took up the last offer and I felt like I watched every movie in the store!

Great deal if you have a store local to you and movies I didn't get time to watch I found there was no problem walking into the store and handing over the movie and saying that you wanted to rent it again, never tried it with games but I guess it'd be the same.

nitromaster · 24-10-2013 10:18PM

Whats game selection like in a typical store? any good? :P

nulabert · 24-10-2013 11:12PM

2 rentals a night. Can someone reccomend 60 dvds and i'll get started

Gavin "shels" · 24-10-2013 11:38PM

zerks wrote: »

Bump.

You were right,the unlimited rentals is back,this time it's €25 a month for both movie and games rentals.

Over 3 and a half years I worked there up until recently, I like to think I have their plan of action sussed.

beauf · 25-10-2013 07:50PM

The rental selection in Blanch is dismal.

Unless it improves it wouldn't be worth my while. there isn't any old movies or a back catalogue to rent either.

kn · 25-10-2013 10:32PM

beauf wrote: »

The rental selection in Blanch is dismal.

Unless it improves it wouldn't be worth my while. there isn't any old movies or a back catalogue to rent either.

Back catalogue is just taking up valuable selling space I'd imagine. Hanging onto rentals beyond say 12-18 months is a bit useless I'd imagine.

Where Xtravision were extremely bad were keeping 'new releases' at full price for around 12 months. They could have done much better if they had it like Chartbusters were their 'new releases' price was for I think 10 or 12 weeks with the lowered price plus as part of a 3 for 2 night €8 I think offer after than. And their back catalogue was pretty brutal in my local shop, virtually everything was on TV and I'd imagine not much renting of those was going on.

beauf · 26-10-2013 12:25AM

The rental section in Xtravision is only about 30 titles. Thats a very limited selection. Its probably only 5% of the shelf space in that store. Seems to be only a few of the most recent releases. Maybe they are just restocking.

kn · 26-10-2013 01:50AM

beauf wrote: »

The rental section in Xtravision is only about 30 titles. Thats a very limited selection. Its probably only 5% of the shelf space in that store. Seems to be only a few of the most recent releases. Maybe they are just restocking.

No. I think its a change of direction. More selling and less rental space. Back catalogues were a waste of space anyway.

AltAccount · 26-10-2013 08:47AM

They've bumped up the price but you get a copy of a One Direction album, no matter who you are or what your listening /watching preferences are?

What's the logic to that?

kn · 26-10-2013 10:36AM

AltAccount wrote: »

They've bumped up the price but you get a copy of a One Direction album, no matter who you are or what your listening /watching preferences are?

What's the logic to that?

Its directed at getting a younger cohort of customers in the door who otherwise buy their music/entertainment online.

AltAccount · 26-10-2013 12:56PM

kn wrote: »

Its directed at getting a younger cohort of customers in the door who otherwise buy their music/entertainment online.

But why inflict it on everyone else? That CD will literally go in my bin, and the fiver would probably have been spent on high margin popcorn etc

kn · 26-10-2013 01:36PM

AltAccount wrote: »

But why inflict it on everyone else? That CD will literally go in my bin, and the fiver would probably have been spent on high margin popcorn etc

I am not disagreeing with you. If they provided 3 or 4 choices that would be better in my book. But you and I are clearly not the one's that this offer is aimed at.

Batesy · 26-10-2013 06:49PM

I have a feeling this deal will not be as successful as the original summer pass.

I'm gonna pass anyway. I wouldn't feel right laughing in the member of staffs face when they offered me the One Direction DVD.

Xtravision Summer Pass: €20/month for unlimited rentals

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