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Dave
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: Time limit on free trials |
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| Can you go back to any company's after a certian amount of time & get another free trial? if so which 1's & how long? |
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sohail84
Joined: 05 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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blockbuster defo,
i just used another email address and it worked for me!! |
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Dave
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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Noticed that screenselect have a 30 day trial (used them about 6 mths ago) so tried with diffrent email address & am curentley building up a list of films  |
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surfprof
Joined: 12 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| sohail84 wrote: | blockbuster defo,
i just used another email address and it worked for me!! |
Me too. Last time I tried, it wouldn't work.
1 month free again. |
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Aenima
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| surfprof wrote: | | Last time I tried, it wouldn't work. 1 month free again. |
So last time you tried you were charged?
The only way to find out if you can get a free trial is to sign up and therefore give your Credit card details. If their cross-check shows you have already had a free trial with the company you will get billed for the month. Trying to get more than one free trial is a gamble. If you fail you get billed for the month. So be warned people.
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Dave
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Dave wrote: | | Noticed that screenselect have a 30 day trial (used them about 6 mths ago) so tried with diffrent email address & am curentley building up a list of films |
Seems I was a bit quick off the,mark here, when they checked my detials they knew I already had a tiral @ my address  |
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surfprof
Joined: 12 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Aenima wrote: | | surfprof wrote: | | Last time I tried, it wouldn't work. 1 month free again. |
So last time you tried you were charged?
The only way to find out if you can get a free trial is to sign up and therefore give your Credit card details. If their cross-check shows you have already had a free trial with the company you will get billed for the month. Trying to get more than one free trial is a gamble. If you fail you get billed for the month. So be warned people. |
Nope. I've received my first 3 discs and I've NOT been charged. I used a different e-mail address from previously but the same postal address. I definitely have a month's free trial again. I can only assume that once in a while, they either purge their records of old accounts, or more likely, that they will allow another trial in the hope of getting your business. In their terms and conditions, it does seem to allow for this occasional discretion. "Only one free trial may be redeemed per household. Previous subscribers will not qualify for further free trials, save at Blockbuster’s discretion. "
As for the last time I tried, no I wasn't charged. They tell you in the signing up process that your address has had the offer before, then they give you the choice of continuing to sign up as a paying customer or to cancel. They don't automatically take your money if you've signed up before. Applying for a free trial isn't the same process as re-activating an old account. |
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Aenima
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| surfprof wrote: |
As for the last time I tried, no I wasn't charged. They tell you in the signing up process that your address has had the offer before, then they give you the choice of continuing to sign up as a paying customer or to cancel. They don't automatically take your money if you've signed up before. Applying for a free trial isn't the same process as re-activating an old account. |
Cheers for the info S. I think you are right in which case I'm gonna give it a try.
Cheers,
A |
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surfprof
Joined: 12 Dec 2005
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Best of luck. Cheers  |
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bazwaldo
Joined: 01 May 2005
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Bit of discretion Guys.
The Rental companies read these posts as well. |
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surfprof
Joined: 12 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have a problem with the companies reading these posts. In fact I would encourage it. I don't think they are naive enough to believe that people won't take advantage of free trials whenever they can. They probably count on it. It's an easy way of getting more business.
Personally, I'm no longer interested in moving from one free trial to another. I think those days are gone. What I would like to do though is use a free trial to re-evaluate the service that a company offers. I've trialled all of the companies over the last 2 years and I've paid subscriptions to 4. A free trial every so many months would allow me to re-assess the service compared to how it performed before and against how my current company's service is performing.
That's what I'm currently doing with Blockbuster. 2 weeks into the trial and I've already turned over 12 discs. Maybe thay have changed from the last time I tried them.
They've been decent enough to let me try again. If the good service continues, they'll be rewarded with my business once again. If not, they won't and the moment the service slips, they'll lose me. |
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