Learn To Save Your Money

If you don’t already know, I love taking advantage of free offers, especially when hardly any work is needed. Monday afternoon I was at a local grocery store and as I was leaving I decided to glance over at the RedBox DVD rental machine and see what movies it had. Someone was in the process of checking out a rental DVD while I was looking at the signs by the machine. This nice random guy happened to say “I have a free rental code that you can use for a one night free rental”. I obviously said “yes” and this person showed me how to apply the code. He also mentioned that if you sign up for the text message notifications from Redbox at their web site, they will text message you promo codes for free rentals.

RedBox is DVD movie rental service which has their machines at popular locations, such as grocery stores, large retail chains, or fast food restaurants. These machines are often noticed by their large red colored machines which have a touch screen LCD. Through this machine one can  easilly rent an available dvd title of their choice. The service charges $1 a night per dvd rental. Pretty much you hit the rent a DVD button on the touch screen, browse the available dvd movie titles, select a dvd you wish to rent, checkout the dvd you want to rent, swipe your credit card (you may be prompted to enter the zip code associated with the billing address of the credit card), enter your email address, the machine dispenses the dvds you selected, and within a few minutes the provided email address will recieve a receipt confirmation in regard to the dvds rented. The process to return a DVD is extremely easy as well. First you hit “Return DVD” button on the touch screen, when prompted insert the DVD into the machine, and you are all set. With returns you will also recieve a confirmation email.

Pretty much RedBox has been offering promo codes to their customers during various days in order to promote their service. During April RedBox is offering coupon codes every Monday for a one night free DVD rental. You can sign up on their web site to recieve the promo code which is sent via a text message to your cell phone or you can obtain the code by simply dong a Google search. During the checkout process you enter this promo code and you are all set. Don’t forget to return the DVD at the same RedBox machine the next day or your credit card will be charged $1 for each day the DVD has not been returned.

This promotion has been a great compliment to my Netflix service, since it seems that Netflix is rather slow to send me newly released movies. Not sure if Netflix is throttling my account or not.

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