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I've kinda been leery of these "Free DVDs" sites, but I recently signed up for FreeDVDs.com and I'm pleasantly pleased.

For one thing, I've accumulated 1425 pts in just a few days (enough to get myself 3-4 free DVDs).

What impresses me is selection (they offer just about every DVD released as reward DVDs), speed (a lot of the offers are Instant Points, which credit you immediately), and the offers, many of which are NOT signing up for new Credit Cards.

I signed up for a Columbia House TV Greats deal (Outlaw Josey Wales for $4.30 shipped), then I got some Instant points for the COMPLETELY FREE one-day-trial sign-ups of some Psychic thing and some Auction thing. I was credited immediately, cancelled immediately, and closed the Virtual Credit Card #s that I used to sign up.

Extremely easy and something I'd have no qualms recommending. Would anyone be interested in me referring you to sign-up. I get 10 points once you sign up and verify your e-mail address, and can refer up to 20 people.

So to sum, up...<b>NOT A SCAM</b>, <b>NO MONEY NEEDED TO BE SPENT</b>, and the only way I benefit from this post and referring people is by getting 10 points if you give them an e-mail address and verify the link.

Just to give you some idea of how much these points are worth...
650 points - Fox and the Hound, James and the Giant Peach, Vault Disney titles
600 points - $19.99 SRP catalogue releases like Man of the House, First Kid, Moon Spinners, etc.
450 points - Mighty Ducks movies, Cheetah, etc.
300 points - $9.99 SRP Buena Vista titles - Ernest movies, Captain Ron, etc.

Here's my link:
http://www.FreeDVDs.com/default.aspx?referer=1472284

Just to follow-up to my post, not only is FreeDVDs.com legit, but they're awesome.

So far, I've gotten:
Gremlins - Special Edition
Amadeus
The Third Man - Criterion Collection

and I've got 1395 points left, good for another 2 or 3 DVDs. And the only offer I've paid for is the Columbia House TV Greats club, to get an introductory DVD for $4.30 with no commitment.

The magazine subscriptions and cancellations are a great way to accrue instant points, and the cancellations are credited back to your card right away.

I'd encourage anyone interested to join, and not just because there's 10 points in it for me.

http://www.freedvds.com/default.aspx?referer=1472284

Some titles they've added lately...

20,000 Leagues: 850 pts
the Miyazaki titles: 900 pts
Treasure Planet: 900 pts
Treasure Island: 850 pts
The Love Bug: 800 pts
The Rescuers: 800 pts

I started using freedvds.com a couple of months ago. Overall, they are great. I got my dvds quickly and they seemed new. My biggest complaint is that about 3 weeks after I joined they suddenly raised the point values for dvds. Most dvds went up 150-200 pts. However, I had been saving my points to get Band of Brothers which had been 2900 pts but it is now 3500 pts.

I completed the e-bay, lower my bills and some of the credit card offers. I have not tried the magazine subscription offers or the bidding offers for fear of getting stuck with a bill, so I cannot offer any feedback about those. I also did not try the Columbia House TV dvd offer b/c after reading Columbia House's membership agreement I was under the impression that if you decided not to keep getting dvds from the series you had to return the introductory dvd.

Freedvds.com is a good way to get a few dvds but b/c of my experience I would not recommend saving my points for a long period of time.

Carrie

Hey Carrie,

You don't have to return the introductory DVD to Columbia House. I've joined their TV Greats Clubs several times and gotten the first disc from "Friends", "The Cosby Show", "The X Files", "All in the Family", Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood Club), Animal House (Campus Comedies), 2001 (Sci-Fi), and The Shining (Stephen King). Great way to get just one disc, and painless to cancel. (Obviously, I've only gotten one of those through FreeDVDs.com.)

The magazine subscriptions you can cancel immediately right after signing up. I've racked up a few thousand points that way, and have done all of them now.

Thanks for the tip about not saving points, it's encouraging me to spend what I have NOW, maybe on 20,000 Leagues.

By the way, I guess you didn't get my e-mail, but AOL is acting funky about receiving mail from the forum. So if you subscribe to threads that get new posts or get a PM, I just get an e-mail bouncing back to me. If you could update your profile with a non-AOL e-mail address, that'd be great. Free ones like Yahoo or Hotmail are fine to use. Thanks.

I wish I could take advantage of some of these offers you post
Unfortunately, none of them seem to be vailable outside of the US.
It is a shame because they sound really good too!

If I find anything locally, I'll try and let the board know if it is any good (there are one or two of us Antipodes here...).

I sympathesize with you, man. It sucks!

Anyhow, I've gotten the Cheers: Complete First Season set and am now working my way towards a 5th DVD reward.

I'm just 45 points away from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I know this thred is old, but if I get my free DVD, will they charge me for shipping ?

magicalwands wrote:I know this thred is old, but if I get my free DVD, will they charge me for shipping ?

No, shipping is free from what I remember. Or by 'free' covered in the points you are required to redeem.

oh well. i mean, the worse they can do is when they ship it so my house and im not there to pay. all they can do is take it back which i really dont care. darn, i really hoped to add The Notebook to my DVD Collection

by the way, i hope im not causing any trouble bringing this very old thread

Why does always this things are just for the US?

magicalwands wrote:by the way, i hope im not causing any trouble bringing this very old thread

You're not. Bumping old threads is fine when there's a point. When there's not, then there's not and no reason to confuse people who will not even notice they're reading old news. That's not the case here.

Isidour wrote:Why does always this things are just for the US?

Remember, DVD producers/distributors only see that one country is worth a good DVD; USA.

So, all you have to do sign up? Does it cost anything? Does it require a credit card? What do you do to earn points?

Sorry, I know I ask too many questions...

I wanted to sign up, but they don't have any offers that don't require a credit card. :\

Fee-Hee-Hee-Eny wrote:So, all you have to do sign up? Does it cost anything? Does it require a credit card? What do you do to earn points?

Sorry, I know I ask too many questions...

Keep in mind this is two summers ago that I did it and things have probably changed. Most of the things I signed up for took charges and then reversed as soon as I cancelled (like magazine subscriptions and such). A little bit of effort but I was able to get the first season of "Cheers", <i>Treasure Planet</i>, and <i>The Third Man</i> Criterion for free, since I didn't pay anything after the charges were promptly reversed. Painless, but you do need to have a credit card for most offers, I think. But not to sign up.

Luke... this is too good to be true. How do you get these points and what's the catch? I gotta know, because now I REALLY wanna join... (you thought it would just be another tongue, didn't you )

LOL, I remember this. I tried it out last year around this time (upon Luke's suggestion in a chat I think). I only did one thing though (the "register at e-bay and bid on something but you don't have to be the winning bid" one). It got me a mere 300 points, not enough to get Coupling Season 1 or 2(both were around 700 or 800 points)

Lukester's right, it did change much since he last did it. There aren't that many magazine subscriptions as there were before. I had to really search to find anything that was non-credit card. And the ones with credit card, they make you remember things like "you must be a member for two weeks otherwise we take back the points". I tried doing a credit-card-less one for this geneology site, but didn't see that in order to cancel, I had to call them personally with a reason why. I didn't want to say that I joined just to get DVD points, so I told them I accidentally found the site and somehow joined without knowing you had to pay! Unfortunately, FreeDVDs.com didn't recognize that little venture, so I didn't get my 1000 points.

Escapay