Not My Mother

Attention Aussie readers: Via my pureprofile account I’ve discovered Quickflix is having a special offer of 2 months’ unlimited trial for $5 (their normal trial is just 14 days free, which I don’t think is long enough to be useful at all). For those who don’t know, Quickflix is an online DVD rental like netflix in the US and Lovefilm in the UK: you add a bunch of movies to your queue, they post some to you, you keep them as long as you want and when you’re done you post them back and they send you something else from your queue. There are no late fees, it’s all done on you having a maximum of 2 or 3 out at a time, although most of the plans do have a limit of how many you can rent in a month.

I was signed up to Lovefilm in the UK for a while and really liked it, but hadn’t bothered doing it here. For a start, it’s more expensive than it was there, plus Australia Post doesn’t have the next-day delivery times of the UK, so you’ll have more delays in getting your films. Also, the drawback is that while you can prioritize your DVDs, you are still at the mercy of what they have available so if you’re trying to watch a series you could be waiting for the next disk for a while. Or what if what you get sent doesn’t match your mood on the day? Bummer. So since we’ve not really been watching that many movies we’d been sticking to the local video shop instead. (And yes, I know you’re also limited by what your local video shop has, but ours always had dozens of copies of new releases and was reasonably cheap, so we were happy)

But we haven’t yet got around to finding a new local video shop, and $5 for two months was a bargain to try out their service. A bargain! So I signed us up and gave Dave the login details and by the looks of it we’ve just spent the last hour putting every single blu-ray DVD they have on our list. Currently our list goes: Tudors series 2, chick flick, chick flick, action, chick flick, action, action, chick flick, chick flick, chick flick… and everything Hayao Miyazaki has done tagged on the end. (I’m expecting Dave will reorder those chick flicks to their rightful place real soon!) I’ll be interested to see how they go, it seemed every newish release I put on the list was tagged as “long wait” (unlike the local video shop) – hopefully it isn’t too bad.

So anyway – if you’re interested and like watching DVDs, it might be a good thing to sign up for. The code you need is AMS_PUREPROFILE_2FOR5. Just remember to cancel your membership before the end of your 2-month trial if you’re not interested in continuing; I have a feeling they’ll stick you on their most expensive plan otherwise.