Movieguys Blog

Monday, October 6, 2008

Gameguys

Hi Everyone,

Well Movieguys has run its race, and Gameguys will now run as a dedicated game rental site. In the last 18 months we have tried to give everyone the very best range and service, with both movies and games. We have been in business in one way or another for over 20 years, and we have never offered, and never intend to offer a service we thought was not 100%.
We have made the hard decision to discontinue the movies so we can keep giving customers 100%. We have purchased every Playstation 3,Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii game since they were released. Combine this with the biggest selection of Playstation 2 and a good selection of Nintendo DS and we believe we have the best way of renting games anywhere.
I would like to thank everyone for their very kind emails and for those who didn't have a games console (Buy ONE!! you don't know what you are missing) thank you for your support and good luck with whichever movie supplier you have decided to use.
For our gamers, if you think our site can be improved we would like to hear your ideas. I hope everyone enjoys the service, and rember that by recommending friends through the site you can get a $10 credit towards your account.

David Walsh
Gameguys

Monday, July 21, 2008

Still waiting

Well doesn't time fly. We have already waited over a month without hearing from the major distributors on whether we can add more to our Blu Ray rentals. I have followed up with emails but still nothing. I will keep trying, both by phone and emails to see if we cant get things moving.
We have managed to find a few Blu Ray titles we didnt have through other suppliers, these are now avaliable through our site.
If anyone has any contacts or access to approved Blu Ray titles that we dont already have, we would love to hear from you.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

More Rental Blu Ray for Movieguys please

Well I am still trying to get more Blu Ray product released by the Distributors. Movieguys are trying to get exclusive releases for any Blu Ray title the Distributors are not importing For Sale. We obviously will not do the wrong thing by any Distributor, but we are hoping they will see the merits of having more titles available for rental to help bolster the Blu Ray market.
We have a very high percentage of Blu Ray movies rented compared to DVD's. This may be slightly inflated for us, as most of our Blu Ray customers also hire Ps3 games. Obviously the Ps3 console is still the hardware of choice for 90% of our customers.
As we are the newest online rental company we never intended to compete 100% with other online rental companies with DVD's, but I don't intend to let any of them offer a better range, or price point, when it comes to either Blu Ray movies or games.

David Walsh
Movieguys/Gameguys
http://www.movieguys.com.au/browse/all/66/movies/blu-ray-rentals.aspx

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Blu Ray still growing

We are still leading the way with online Blu Ray movie rentals. 320 titles and counting, we still want to see more and intend to hound the distributors for more titles in Australia. Why have America had nearly twice as many Blu Ray movies released as Australia?
Our customers are certainly asking for more, our requests for Blu Ray have gone through the roof. For good reason too, you can notice the difference! We actually set up 2 Plasma screens in the office and played a standard DVD on a Standard plasma, and a Playstation 3 console with the same movie hooked up to a High Definition 1080P Samsung Plasma.
We showed everyone coming through the door and the response was as expected, wow you can really see the difference...now I am going to have to get one of those.

David Walsh
Movieguys/Gameguys

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Free Trial

Why don’t we offer the free trial anymore?

We do consider free trials an important tool for customers to get a feel for a business, but as it costs a considerable amount of money to buy extra movies and send them to trial customers, we would need to build these costs into our existing members monthly plans to help pay for the offer.
We don’t believe it is fair on our existing members, and pride ourselves on having the cheapest deals in this industry. Please compare for yourself and you decide how much you want to pay.
Feel free if you like to trial other sites, and if you think this is the way to go to rent movies, you are more than welcome to join us. Whether you like the others or not, we believe we have the best customer service and with our ratio of buying titles to requests, you will also see a lot more New Releases a lot faster with us.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Refer a Friend

http://www.movieguys.com.au/Customer/ReferAFriend.aspx

It seems everybody is enjoying our referrals offer. We are seeing a lot of new friends joining up, and a lot of you now with credits towards your next month. We even have a couple of customers who not only will not be paying anything for next month, but will still have some credit toward the following month.
Please ensure you go through the site when referring friends, so you will receive the credit. This is the only way we can track who is referring who.

David Walsh
Movieguys