We Love Vudu...But Would Love To See These Changes!
My boyfriend and I discovered Vudu when we were looking for a movie one night and didn't want to wait for it to arrive from Netflix. We have Netflix and Amazon Prime and we also use the free content on Hulu, but Vudu's convenience is second to none with what we have found.
That being said, there are some things I would love to see changed on Vudu:
Categories that I can create - I love Disney, Dreamworks, and Adam Sandler. My boyfriend loves westerns and war movies. Together we enjoy action flicks, horror films, and comedies. I would love to be able to make separate categories or libraries for the movies that we own, so that I could have one for him, one for us, and one for myself. That way, neither of us has to scroll through all of the movies we own to find what they are looking for.
Loyalty Program - Some sort of program where you are rewarded for every so many rentals. Like rent 6 and get a free rental, or something like that.
Discount Plans - A program where there were different discount tiers, like say 6 rentals for $15 instead of $18 so that you save money when you frequently rent from Vudu (which would be an incentive for us to rent from Vudu rather than Amazon)
Gift Cards - Available at Walmart, since that's the big partner store, and on the Vudu website, to introduce friends and family to Vudu without them having to use their credit card.
Promotional Codes - The ability to use more than 5 $5 promotional codes per account. We buy a lot of physical DVD's that come with these $5 promotional codes for Vudu, yet we can't redeem them all, because it's limited to five per Vudu account. We would open another account, but our Vudu is linked to our Roku, so we don't want to mess anything up. We end up giving them to friends and family. Why should we miss out just because we purchase a lot of DVD's? It's like you are being punished for purchasing more.
Rental Extensions Available For Purchase - My boyfriend works a full time job. Sometimes it's well after 6pm when we finish a movie. We stop and start movies a lot, which is one of the reasons we prefer to rent them, rather than go to the theater. There are many times when we have started a 2 hour movie at 6pm, gone to bed at 7pm, and had to pay to rent the movie again the next night to finish it. I would love to see some sort of discount for additional nights rentals. When you are late returning a library book, you pay a late fee per day, video rental stores work the same way, I would love to see Vudu do something like this. They aren't losing bandwidth or anything because we are still watching the same movie, and we would gladly pay up to half the price of the rental ($1.50) to get an additional night, rather than having to pay the whole $2.99 again to finish a movie.
Incentive to buy a movie after renting it - We will often rent a movie to see if we like it, and then turn around and buy the movie. However, we can often get the movie cheaper on DVD on Amazon or Walmart's website rather than on Vudu. It would be nice if Vudu offered some sort of discount on a movie that you decide to purchase after renting it.
That being said, there are some things I would love to see changed on Vudu:
Categories that I can create - I love Disney, Dreamworks, and Adam Sandler. My boyfriend loves westerns and war movies. Together we enjoy action flicks, horror films, and comedies. I would love to be able to make separate categories or libraries for the movies that we own, so that I could have one for him, one for us, and one for myself. That way, neither of us has to scroll through all of the movies we own to find what they are looking for.
Loyalty Program - Some sort of program where you are rewarded for every so many rentals. Like rent 6 and get a free rental, or something like that.
Discount Plans - A program where there were different discount tiers, like say 6 rentals for $15 instead of $18 so that you save money when you frequently rent from Vudu (which would be an incentive for us to rent from Vudu rather than Amazon)
Gift Cards - Available at Walmart, since that's the big partner store, and on the Vudu website, to introduce friends and family to Vudu without them having to use their credit card.
Promotional Codes - The ability to use more than 5 $5 promotional codes per account. We buy a lot of physical DVD's that come with these $5 promotional codes for Vudu, yet we can't redeem them all, because it's limited to five per Vudu account. We would open another account, but our Vudu is linked to our Roku, so we don't want to mess anything up. We end up giving them to friends and family. Why should we miss out just because we purchase a lot of DVD's? It's like you are being punished for purchasing more.
Rental Extensions Available For Purchase - My boyfriend works a full time job. Sometimes it's well after 6pm when we finish a movie. We stop and start movies a lot, which is one of the reasons we prefer to rent them, rather than go to the theater. There are many times when we have started a 2 hour movie at 6pm, gone to bed at 7pm, and had to pay to rent the movie again the next night to finish it. I would love to see some sort of discount for additional nights rentals. When you are late returning a library book, you pay a late fee per day, video rental stores work the same way, I would love to see Vudu do something like this. They aren't losing bandwidth or anything because we are still watching the same movie, and we would gladly pay up to half the price of the rental ($1.50) to get an additional night, rather than having to pay the whole $2.99 again to finish a movie.
Incentive to buy a movie after renting it - We will often rent a movie to see if we like it, and then turn around and buy the movie. However, we can often get the movie cheaper on DVD on Amazon or Walmart's website rather than on Vudu. It would be nice if Vudu offered some sort of discount on a movie that you decide to purchase after renting it.
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