Suggestions for a good mail order rental

I use Gamefly and have been a user for over a year now with no problems.

They have a multitude of plans and also give pretty good rewards for customers, including coupons and discounts for purchasing their used stock.

I've had one missing game that never made it back to them, but I was not penalized for it and they promptly sent me a replacement game.

Good luck and good gaming

Unfortunately I live in Los Angeles, so perhaps thats part of the reason why I've had great service.

Perhaps someone can chime in from the east and see what kind of delays they have had with Gamefly.

Thanks for the Heads-up about Gamesandflix. My son really wants to join a game rental mailing service, but this is exactly the kind of thing I'm worried about... waiting & waiting for the games to arrive and wasting our time and money.

I signed up for gamefly last week, when I saw the ad for the free trial (I think it was either 10 or 14 days?). I signed up on Tuesday, and as of Friday evening, they still hadn't shipped any of the games I have in my GameQ. I'm in Baltimore, and they're in California, so I know shipping will take a while...and if they're going to wait almost a week before even sending out my game, I'm not going to bother. For the $20 a month they charge I'll just go to blockbuster and pick up a game every other week or so.

I know Blockbuster has a mailing service but I'm not sure if it is just for movies. This will save you from making an errand run. Also if you do want to return it to the store you can. Again I'm not sure if they do games this way.

Blockbuster has their in-store GamePass. Costs $22 or so a month, 1 out at a time. It may save you a couple of bucks if he likes to rent a lot of different games.

Blockbuster Online's movie plan comes with one free coupon a month, that can be used for games. Again, games are in-store only.

Gamefly........I have been a member for about 6 months. First month or 2 I couldn't have asked for a better company, and then reality kicked in. I used to get my games fast, I live in Ohio too, but I started noticing a decrease in turn around time. And then started noticing high demands for every game. Games that were even out a year ago ,and ones I know people don't play anymore. I have 2 friends that I talked into signing up as well because I talked them up so much, and now the same has happened to them. Now they don't even get my games unless I file a missing game report and then miraculously they find it ship me another one. Don't do Gamefly!

I am having the same problems with GameznFlix over the past couple months. Everything has a wait on it, and sometimes will go 2 weeks with nothing shipping. I have e-mailed their tech support, and never got more than the standard replies. This service used to be fantastic, I'm not sure what happened. :/

Just want to second the opinion on gameznflix. They're bad. The six out for $250 plan is a great deal, until you find you'll never have six movies/games out at a time. I've had two items at home with a full queue for weeks at a time. Games like Rainbow Six Vegas and Gears of War were in the queue for three months and I never got them. Customer service is unfriendly, not to mention unhelpful.

I was promised a pro-rated refund for my year membership, so I recently canceled. Now customer service is giving me the run around about getting the refund.

Avoid.

That's odd, I've absolutely loved Gameznflix. It probably has to do with the fact that I live right in between two shipping centers (Nevada and Colorado). I usually get stuff quickly and don't have to wait long for specific titles.

For gameznflix, the availability/turnaround for movies is ok, the availibility/turnaround for games is awful. The website is slow and couldn't be any less user-friendly. All in all, gameznflix is a very poor service.

However, it is nice having 1 online rental service for both movies and games at a reasonable price.

You just have to decide if the negatives outweigh the positives.