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My experience with Peerflix
My experience with Peerflix signed up mid 9/05 on the one free dvd and 99 cent trade offer. 10/01 received welcome package; same day posted three dvds;10/01 mailed out two;10/02 mailed out the 3rd.
I received a 99 cent credit but no free dvd credit;the account was initially credited for 3 Peerflix from my dvds;
Peerflix Authorized 1 dvd tade and deducted 1 peerflix from the account;My cost to date is $24.00 for the 3 dvds and shipping at $3.00. 10/06 I received a badly burned dvd. on 10/06 I mailed it to Peerflix Fraud incurring shipping cost; plus trip to post office box.
10/06 account credit returned; then five minutes later Peerflix deducted 2 peerflix and 99cent trade. Received next dvd on the 10/18 days(confirmation to be mailed on 10/06, postage stamp is 10/08 and the dvd skips looping back in the middle; Peerflix automatically confirmed receipt four days before dvd is received it; taking away option of stating condition of DVD.
I have sent three requests for asst. concerning the unaccredited offered free dvd not received. Peerflix refused to authorize dvd trades until $5.00 worth of trading points is purchased;my account when showing 2 peerfix credits refused to allow a trade;my credit should be at 2 credits if the free dvd was a reality.
My understanding of the system if you traded dvd the traded dvd would/could cover trading cost. To date investment is $24.00 in DVD; plus $10.00 in mailing and gas. Received two dvds; one burned; a 2nd that skips looping back; Peerflix has given incorrect accounting;
no customer service.
Peerflix demands $5.00 cash for peerflix trades offering me an online forum to give/offer my owned dvd and pay postage; while hoping to get a fair trade; if the dvd is fraudulent then Peerflix offers a costly option of paying additonal postage to send it to Peerflix fraud just to receive Peerflix dollars credit back for a dvd previously sent dvd; I loose additonal money for the postage paid for shipping the burned dvd to the fraud section. More loss for peerflix customer.
Not going to happen. When I sent the burned DVD I enclosed a letter requesting a follow up on the no free dvd credit; No response.
Just exactly what cost do they have; computers; computers used for tracking; and the operators.
The customers brings the product; pays for the postage; stores the product; Peerflix does exactly what?
Results of researching Peerflix on the internet; about the company.
Encyclopedia: Peerflix
Updated 53 days 14 hours 10 minutes ago.
Other descriptions of Peerflix
Peerflix is a DVD movie trading service based in Menlo Park, California, launched quietly in 2004 by co-founders Danny Robinson, Tim Stewart and Bill McNair. The concept behind the service is similar to that of file trading that is done through peer to peer software such as Kazaa, except physical DVDs are exchanged instead of files. Users pay 99 cents per trade (as of 2005) for Peerflix to facilitate the trading through their website. Since physical DVDs are exchanged with no copies made, the service remains legal. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Cafe Borrone, adjacent to Keplers Bookstore in the Menlo Center, is a popular lunch spot in downtown Menlo Park. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tim Stewart A High Technology executive and Inventor of web based community and media systems. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the comput
ing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as KaZaA, but now usually left as Kazaa) is a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. ... a bust ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ...
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