Supermarket dvd rental

[Dom Tuk]

A leading supermarket chain has a dvd rental that looks cheap. However they ask for a slection of 10 titles from which they will send you DVDs. How can i ensure that the DVDs that i want are sent to me not just the others that i have had to include in my selection to make up the 10. In otherwords will i get to see my first choice if say it is a rare dvd.

[WaldoMcFroog]

We use the Tesco one and it is a little frustrating.

You can rank each selection as High, Med or Low priority but we've found that if you go for something even a little obscure - in our case it was the little known (joke) show Northern Exposure second series - they apparently have only one copy for the entire UK and our having it as High Priority doesn't stop them sending other lower rated items first.

The other thing they've just done to us is send disc one of Six Feet Under, followed by the second disc and then the third, so we have all three of our choices taken up with one series. We thought they issued each disc of a single disc - i.e. watch disc one over a period of a week or whatever, get disc two on return. In the meantime, we were expecting two choices from elsewhere on our list. That's certainly annoying as we now have to watch 3 discs before we can watch anything else - what if we're not in the mood for 6FU?

However, overall, we've found it pretty good and certainly about 25% of the price it would have been through a conventional video shop.

[Dom Tuk]

Yes its them, I joined them today and wondered if this was the catch. I seems it is. Well I am on a 14 day free trial and if i dont get the movies i want i will be outa there. 

[MargeB]

I use screenselect and they are dead quick, as quick as they could be I would say. Good choice too. How much is tescos? Dont they get mixed up and send you frozen peas sometimes by mistake?

[WaldoMcFroog]

ScreenSelect *is* the same people as the Tesco one (which think's it's Video Island... confused... you will be!

I know they're the same because I got confused when I found a mate's review of a film via the Tesco interface, knowing he was with ScreenSelect!

See http://www.videoisland.co.uk/ - they've merged.

Tesco seems to be about a quid cheaper for three simultanoues discs.

[Hermia]

I use Amazon and although it's probably not the cheapest I have been very impressed with the service. There's a good range of DVDs and I usually get the ones I want.