LifeHacking Peerflix

I’ve been a member of Peerflix since October last year and I’m very much satisfied with their service, Peerflix is the first DVD trading company out there, it’s like Netflix or Blockbuster except there is no monthly fees and you get to keep the movie that you receive. Sounds a great deal right? The catch is well, It’s DVD trading. You list all the DVD’s that you want and if someone wants it then you send it out (just the DVD) it will cost you 39 cents for the postage, and in return you will get credits based on the worth of the movie that you sent, which in turn you can use to get the DVDs that you want. Trades cost 99cents.

Here’s the lowdown:

New DVD’s at Walmart = $15 (approx)

Old sale DVDs at Wals = $10 (approx)

Same disk at peerflix = $0.99

Peerflix is a good way of streamlining your DVD collection. Since October I have increased the size of my library to 126 DVDs at little cost.

Pros: Cheap, Easy, Environmentally friendly (their packaging is ingenious)

Cons: Used DVD, No DVD cover art and no DVD case comes with DVD; sometimes it takes longer to get the DVD that you want

The DVD that you receive will not have the DVD case or cover but I found out that with a little bit of Google-ing, you can almost always download an image of the DVD covers that you need from the net (Search: DVD covers) and of course when I send out the DVDs to peerflix I end up with empty DVD cases and so I just use those. Being in the military it is a necessity to be able to live within your means and anything I can do to save greenbacks and at the same time increase my quality of life is always a good thing. It’s legal and at the same time it’s a sort of recycling.