Online Rental Blog

What to Look for in a Game Rental Service

Posted on August 1st, 2006 by freedvdtrials.com

Game rental services are convenient—just pick and rent games from your home computer and the game rental service will mail them to you ASAP.

Online game rental services are less expensive than buying games new, and cheaper and more convenient than neighborhood game rentals, because there are no return dates and no late fees. And most game companies pay postage both ways, so you don’t even have to buy stamps.

Also, game rental websites usually offer thousands of games for all the popular gaming systems, including: XBox, PS2, PSP and Nintendo’s GameCube and GameBoy Advanced.

Instead of paying a new fee for each game rental, you should be able to customize your rental plan to match your gaming habits. Your game rental plan cost should be based how many games you want to rent at a time, not how many games you turn over in a month. Rent anywhere from two games to twenty at the same time, all for a fixed, low monthly fee.

You need an online game rental service with exceptional service online and off. Freedvdtrials.com used these criteria to judge game rental services:

Feature Set – game rental services should offer free, two–way shipping for games, should never charge late fees and should offer a trial membership for free. game rental services should also rank games for maturity and age appropriateness, make game previews and customer reviews easy to find and should allow you to cancel membership any time.

Game Selection – A game rental service should offer a wide variety of game genres for all ages and tastes. These games should work on all the popular gaming systems.

Search Capabilities – We look for game rental services that make searching for games simple; you should be able to search by game system type, popularity, name and audience–appropriate rank.

Game Arrival Time – game rental services should have several strategies in place to shorten shipping times. Shipping waits longer than three days aren’t acceptable.

Available Plans – game rental services should offer a variety of membership plans to meet the diverse needs of members. There should be plans to fit the light gamer, the weeknight gamer, or to fit an entire family of gamers.