LoveFilm.com

[Captain Zep]

Not sure if  should post this in OT knowledge or Arts & Entertainment but:

Has anyone used LoveFilm.com?  Reliable?  I'm not sure about posting DVD's regularly.  Plus, do the envelopes have LoveFilm.com printed on them - sounds like you're having porn delivered.    I'm sure he thinks I'm a weirdo anyway - god knows what he thinks are in the deliveries marked "Wiggle"!

RJMcB

[Mike J]

Not sure if  should post this in OT knowledge or Arts & Entertainment but:

Has anyone used LoveFilm.com?  Reliable?  I'm not sure about posting DVD's regularly.  Plus, do the envelopes have LoveFilm.com printed on them - sounds like you're having porn delivered.    I'm sure he thinks I'm a weirdo anyway - god knows what he thinks are in the deliveries marked "Wiggle"!

RJMcB

We used them for a while, they were very good but it got to the point where we were not able to watch the DVDs and ended up sending them back.

They come in brightly coloured CD sized envelopes which you re-use by removing the sticky tape from them.  Its quite obvious where they come from.

[Cyclops]

I used them a few years back but stopped because I wasn't watching the DVDs. However, delivery was quick and reliable.

I have recently started using them again as they rent console games and it proves a heck of a lot cheaper than forking out £40 for a Wii game that the kids get bored with in a fortnight. Now they play them for a week or two and send them back for a different one.

[vince]

I have a subscription instead of a telly licence. It works quite well, although I go through patches when the DVDs are scratched.

When they were ScreenSelect they used to ship out the same day that they received the disk, these days it is next day, but still pretty reliable.

[Hot Flatus]

I joined them a couple of years ago (maybe 3).  They were very efficient but ( and it is a big but)  the only DVDs that ever came were the ones way down my list.  If it is 3 year old or more films you are after then go for it, but for anything recent forget it!

[nic]

I find Lovefilm very good in the winter where we are more likely to be indoors and in the mood for movies.

This year we enjoyed a three months free trial to get us back in the fold. It was a combination 2 subscription (games and film). It did not work too well as we only received one game in three months. Apart from that, the dvd queuing system works rather well. I can't complain though as it was all free and we have not extended the free trial 


It's quite disheartening to end up with 150 films in your viewing queue.   

[Andydauddwr]

We've used them on and off over the last year - 18 months.  Fairly fast turnaround, but we did seem to get more than our fair share of scratched and unplayable discs.

After cancelling late last year, they sent us a voucher for 90 days free subscription.  Nearing the end of that soon and will probably cancel again, as although we're getting less scratched stuff, we're now approaching the point where there's not much left that we want to watch...

AC

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I use them and have had no problems with them. The only time I've had problems with the postage is when I've been returning discs and they haven't got back. Interestingly, the only ones not to make it back to them went from the post room at work rather than from a post box. *scratches head* For each one they sent me a "missing disc" form to complete and return, and that was the end of it.

[Captain Zep]

I use them and have had no problems with them. The only time I've had problems with the postage is when I've been returning discs and they haven't got back. Interestingly, the only ones not to make it back to them went from the post room at work rather than from a post box. *scratches head* For each one they sent me a "missing disc" form to complete and return, and that was the end of it.

They didn't ask you to pay for it?  The Terms & Conditions on the website doesn't mention what happens if a disc goes missing in the post.  The only thing mentioned is a £20 charge if "you lose" the disc.  I worry that the envelopes obviously contain DVD's thus making them very nickable.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

No, I completed the form saying where the disc was posted from and when, and they left it at that. And after the 2nd one posted from work went missing, I stopped posting them from work and went to the postbox.

[Greenbank]

I joined them a couple of years ago (maybe 3).  They were very efficient but ( and it is a big but)  the only DVDs that ever came were the ones way down my list.  If it is 3 year old or more films you are after then go for it, but for anything recent forget it!

If you want recently released films you have to keep your list short, otherwise they'll just send you some old dross from way down your list.

They aim to satisfy everyone so they start with the people that are hardest to please (i.e. the ones with the short lists).

[rafletcher]

I've used them for some time, only had one unplayable disc (we get 4 / month), and few, errrm, I couldn't "back up" 

If you want to use them "seasonally", ie for winter entertainment, it's possible to suspend your subscription I believe.