Redbox

This review is not for one specific Redbox because, good grief, they are located all over the country. Just here in Jacksonville there’s one on just about one on every corner. This review is for Redbox in general.
Having said they, I LOVE Redbox. When I first saw these things popping up about a decade ago, I told my husband they were going to put Blockbuster out of business (and this was well before they were on every corner). Well, it seems as though I was right! Now, I’m sure it was Redbox solely who put Blockbuster out of business, that also had a lot to do with streaming.
Initially, it was $ 1.07 (with tax) to rent a movie, now (2016), it’s $ 1.61 (with tax) to rent a movie. Still a very good price, IMHO.
The hubby and I rent A LOT of movies and we rent them all from Redbox. Because there are so many of them, it’s not difficult to find a particular movie.
Also, I love the app. I choose the movie I want from the app and it finds the box it’s located in with about 1 second. I rent the movie directly from the app and it also holds my movie in the box. That way, when I get there, I know it’s in the box waiting for me.
We also get a ton of free codes. Make sure to sign up for their text messages and emails. They send out free codes all the time as well as rent one movie and get a second one for free. Also, make sure to sign up for their Play Pass… If you do this, then after every 10 movies, you get a credit to get a free movie. Interestingly enough, even if you are using free codes to get movies, renting that free movie still gives counts as one of the 10 movies towards your next free one.
Also make sure to call Redbox if you have a problem with a movie. It doesn’t happen very often, but we will occasionally get a movie that skips or just won’t work. They will always email you a free code and often they’ll even email you two or three free codes to make up for the inconvenience.
They do also rent blurays and video games. We don’t get the blurays because they do cost about $.50 more to rent and we figure why bother. Although they don’t have a very large selection, you can also rent video games.
Two thumbs up for Redbox!

They remodeled and moved the A and B boxes together near the electronics dept. and Starbucks shop on the side entrance. Can’t miss them!

It doesn’t matter how many times they give me a promotion code or how many times I think it’s going to be different… this time this company sucks! every other movie I rent is either broken won’t play and I have to return it and they don’t give me a refund even when i complain. Im done. Ripped off for the last time. #redboximdone I will never use them again

I really enjoy renting Redbox movies… It’s very affordable 1.61 after tax for DVDs… And you can find a Redbox pretty much everywhere you go…
If you ever have an issue with the movie you’ve selected just call the number that’s on the box of the movie you’ve rented and they’ll take care of you. and the will make sure the malfunctioning disc is taken out of circulation…

Every time I rent a video from Redbox it skips! Last night the movie wouldn’t even play past the main menu page. Its annoying to get home cook dinner sit down to watch your movie and it wont play. Get the bad DVDs out of the machines! Have service people constantly come and check the quality of the disck… do something! You’ll be the next Blockbuster video store gone bankrupt if you continue to put out crap and piss off your costumers!

redbox is convenient and I’ve had few problems. but beware of the pop up box stating ‘the code for your discount is already applied to your rental so you don’t have to enter it’. because when u finish renting you see it wasn’t applied. and your credit card gets charged. it’s only $ 1 but it adds up if it happens to everyone on line. and when you chat on line with Claire at red box doesn’t really listen to you, and she pretty much tells you it didn’t happen that way, when it did. she pretends she doesn’t know what you are talking about and does nothing to make it right. poor customer service.
beware…

Redbox is the perfect last minute date night plan or when you just have nothing else to do. I frequent Redbox pretty regularly because the movie rentals are pretty cheap (although they recently raised their price, $ 1.20 for DVDs, I think $ 1.50 for blu rays). I have signed up for their text message Redbox club and pretty often (about once a month or sometimes more) I get codes for free movie rentals (for the regular DVDs, if you rent the blu rays, you just pay the difference). They also send rent 1, get 1 free rental codes, half off rentals, etc. (But of course you can always google «free redbox codes» if you don’t want to sign up).
The only negative I would have to say about Redbox is the long lines you wait in to rent or return, especially on a weekend evening. Usually there is only 1 or 2 kiosk machine at any given location. Would be nice to have a few more to cut down on the wait time, but of course it is cheaper for the owner to have 1 or 2 at most.
To avoid paying for another rental day, make sure you return your rental by 9 pm the night before.