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not_exactly__ | 4 years ago

> I will never rent an online movie

Why not? I do it all the time for a simple economic reason: renting is $2.99 and buying is $14.99.

If I haven’t seen the movie yet and I don’t feel super strongly about it, I don’t feel like paying the full price. Of course if I end up loving the movie and want to buy it, I’ll end up having spent an extra $2.99 to rent something I now plan to own. But I can’t remember ever doing that. I rent. I watch. I move on.

Also I wouldn’t buy a movie that I can’t store in a physical format.

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tpxl|4 years ago

> Why not?

1. "Buying" is usually 15$ in my experience, not 3$.

2. Like said, the limitation is not technical, it's purely milking users.

3. I like to own stuff and sometimes play older games and watch older movies. Renting is just a non-starter for that, unless you want to overpay out the nose.