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Quickflix Ends Unlimited Plans

On February 3, Quickflix ended its remaining unlimited DVD rental tariffs, noting this was being done to increase service to members across all its remaining, capped plans.

Such unlimited plans were the mainstay of the DVD rental by post in the early days of the industry (and could be tremendous value for high-volume renters, and cause tremendous postage bills for the companies). We've seen this pullback to more capped plans across several other Western markets, as apparently a small percentage of people regularly got “heavy” DVD mailings, so the caps were set high enough so as not to affect the average viewer. Market leader Bigpond previously removed its unlimited options in April 2008, and we wouldn't be surprised to see the other, smaller companies follow suit.

Quickflix now has four tariffs: the budget options of 1 DVD out at-a-time (to a maximum of 2 DVDs per month) and 2 DVDs out at-a-time (to a maximum of 4 discs per month) cost just $9.95 and $14.95 respectively. They also have a 2-out, 8 disc plan per month at $19.95, and a 3 out 10 per month plan at $24.95, both effectively $2.49 per disc which is quite competitive. We also hear that some previous, higher volume renters were offered higher, fixed disc-per-month tariffs than those advertised on the website.


04 Feb, 2009 | Category: DVD Rental News | AddThis Social Bookmark Button
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I see nothing wrong with being a high volume renter, it's in their TOS ater all that it's an unlimited service. Still, now that they are NOT unlimited I can't complain I suppose, just don't want to be singled out for taking advantage of the TOS.



Anonymous - 09 Feb, 2009 - 16:23:22
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I don't hold it against you for taking max advantage of their unlimited plans. It could be very cheap in principle, I just don't have time to get through so many flicks LOL!

Fair enough that they'd cut those out to save on postage, just wish it could be used to cut priices for the rest of us. Ah well, I can dream, but it's still better value than the video store.



J from Brisbane - 10 Feb, 2009 - 09:43:25
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