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While internet-based video rental allows renters to receive and return videos via standard mail, many of us prefer to visit our local video store. The drawback of going this route is that you have to get in your car to return the video.
My suggestion to the bricks & mortar video rental shops is
to offer at checkout an optional prepaid envelope that can be used to return the video. They get their movies back quicker and I avoid having to make the drive back to the store. I suppose the drawback to the store is if we are forced to drive back, we may be suckered in for another rental.
Pre-paid shipping
http://www.rogersvi.../SignUp/land02.aspx
[kdmurray, Dec 31 2006]
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buying is the new renting. |
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Stores are already accustomed to getting their discs returned via a slot, so no need to worry that they'll nix this idea because it doesn't bring people inside. On the contrary, having this option makes it more palatable to visit the store now and then and pick up a few titles. You could take them with you on a road trip and mail them back as you finished watching. |
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Where we are this has been baked for some time. (see link) The difference here I guess is that instead of a one-time thing, this is a subscription service. |
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They don't do NetFlix where you are? |
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Yeah, but don't you have to initially order NetFlix through the mail? What if you want a movie that day? |
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Blockbuster does something like this. You subscribe to their internet service and get one free rental every so often - I believe it's a week. |
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It is my understanding the online services of Netflix, Blockbuster and others like the link that was attached all provide pre-paid envelopes for rental returns. This idea however is regarding rentals made at local retail stores. |
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This is not so much an invention as a suggestion. I would not be surprised if a letter to your rental store (or their corporate overlords) were to get this implemented. You might even get a couple of free rentals out of it. |
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I think it's a damn fine idea. One thing that may keep them from doing this, however, is the risk of kids sending them prank mail in the prepaid envelopes, or assholes putting cardboard and pieces of sheetmetal in the envelopes to weight them down and force them to pay more for postage (I've read about people doing that to credit card companies). If, however, the prepaid envelope had the renter's address on it, then they'd know exactly who to send the cops after. |
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//buying is the new renting.// |
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downloading is the new buying. |
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peer2peer is the new downloading. |
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