The deal:
For $25 a month, you get 3 DVDs sent to you along with pre-paid postage return envelopes. When you watch a DVD, you put it in the envelope and send it back. Ignoring Ziprefill which you don't get for the first month anyway, as soon as they get the DVD back, they send you a new one. So I usually watch 3 DVDs/week x 4 weeks in a month, so 12 DVDs for $25 = about $2 per rental. That's a tiny bit better than Blockbuster's $6.
You make a 'Ziplist' on their web site listing the movies that you want to rent and they try to pick from the top of your list. But if those movies are in high demand, you get ones that are lower down.
I've been a member for over a year now and I'm getting extremely sick of them. It may not be a problem in Calgary, but here in Ottawa, delivery is horribly, horribly slow. I'll finish watching all 3 movies on the weekend and toss them in the mail on Sunday night. Two days to get to their warehouse, one day processing... and they are marked as returned on Wednesday. I get new ones sent to me on Thursday, meaning they arrive the next Monday. That's over a week to have a turn-around on my DVDs. Of course, Zip-refill helps a little bit... but it's not enough to keep me as a member. If May is as bad as April has been, I'm leaving Zip.
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