I signed up with Seventymm Movie Rental Service a while ago and here is the lowdown on their performance so far. I am based in Hyderabad so I cannot really talk about its performance in other cities and the local DVD rental services there, but in Hyderabad the local DVD rental services are plenty, charge Rs. 40 per day and have generally have a very limited collection in terms of English and other regional language movies. Seventymm is like a breath of fresh air when compared to my local DVD rental guy and I am a member with 3 of them (all with similar non-performance levels). At the very outset let me state that Seventymm is a whole lot economical when compared to any local DVD rental service that you might be using. They have packages very reasonably priced starting from Rs. 299 per month where you can order 1 DVD a day, which works out to Rs. 10 per DVD per day. The collection of movies is quite extensive in English, Hindi and even regional languages. Movie buffs might lament that the quality of DVDs is not good or of international standards i.e. no DTS or THX on the DVDs or that they are on standard Moser Baer media, but all things considered it is still a very good deal at a price of Rs. 10 per day. This is a concept very much in vogue in the United States with Netflix and Blockbuster and something I have been wishing for a long time and now at last its here. The other online movie rental service available right now in India is BigFlix from the house of Reliance who seem to have their hand in every pie these days. I have personally not subscribed to BigFlix yet though I have registered with them, but customer care/customer service seems to be an issue with them as it is with all Reliance offerings. The reason I can say this is because I registered with Seventymm and with BigFlix at the same time, and a manager from Seventymm ended up calling me within a couple of days time and took my payment details, etc. and the very next day I began to receive movies from Seventymm. BigFlix on the other hand is yet to call me or do anything else despite my registering on their website. If you can bear with poor customer service then you can check out BigFlix too since I am told they have an offer going on where you can pay Rs. 1800 for an entire year’s rental service with them on an ICICI credit card. I am right now paying Rs. 849 for 3 months with Seventymm so BigFlix has a better offer going on right now. Among other things, Seventymm also has Xbox games that you can rent, but I cannot really review or comment on this since I don’t have an Xbox and have not rented any games.
Other advantages with Seventymm, as with any online movie rental service, are free delivery and pickup so you end up saving on time and fuel costs. The quality of DVDs is also pretty good and I have only had one instance of a DVD being scratched and not playing on my DVD player, which is more than I can say for my local DVD rental guys. Just for the fact that you don’t have to drive down to the local DVD rental guy saving on both time and fuel, and Seventymm costs being a whole lot cheaper makes the online movie rental system an outright winner by all counts. It sure beats the local DVD rental guy any day in terms of the selection/collection available, the costs being involved, and not having to visit or drive down to the local DVD rental guy in traffic and with rising fuel costs. You should at the very least sign up for a 1 month package costing Rs. 299 where you can have 1 DVD a day delivered to your doorstep everyday for the entire month. This way you can check out their service and arrive at a decision at the end of the month whether you want to continue with them or not and at Rs. 10 per day for a movie it hardly amounts to anything in these days.
Hi Rajiv,
I read your post and it's nice that you're letting others have an idea of the service by Seventymm. However, it's not available in my city as yet. Anyways, you're lucky that you haven't subscribed to Bigflix as yet. I'm one of their many victims and suffering being a Bigflix member almost every alternative day. You may read up my review here:
http://imrealgod.vox.com/library/post/my-bigfli…
Also, you can read the reviews of BIGFLIX at mouthshut.com. Don't just see the recommendation rate there, read at least the titles of the reviews, if not whole of them. This will give you a fair idea of their service. So, even if you're called by BIGFLIX, save yourself from the horror and just deny to subscribe. Though I'm from another city, from what I've read online about BIGFLIX, their service is worse, if not worst, almost everywhere. Hope you don't end up lamenting like me as to why I joined BIGFLIX!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
Thanks for stopping by and also thanks for commenting and especially letting us know about BigFlix. Really don't have much hope from them and all that you said in your review confirmed it for me. BTW good review you have on your blog with the pros and cons listed out…
In case you are a movie buff and are considering seventymm because they claim to have a vast movie collection and would deliver movies right at your doorstep.. think again..
This is how their process
works..
1) You either call or get a call from seventymm. The person’s objective would not be to share as much information with you as possible so that you can make an informed decision. He/she would rather want to rush and somehow get you to the credit card step so that they can claim a new victim. They wouldn’t even tell you tariff structures properly.
2) So.. you sign up.. have your dvd player duly connected.. have bought some microwavable popcorn and prepare your wishlist of movies on their website. Now you give them a call to order one of these.. only to realize that ALL of them are in circulation (mind you.. you have a list of some ten movies and all in circulation!!) Anyways, you dont bother much and think that this a one time phenomenon.. but just go through the seventymm reviews on internet once and you will realize that people have been banging their heads to get movies of their choice.. but to no avails..
never mind.. your popcorn wont ditch you like seventymm so you can switch on the tv.. watch some movie on any channel and munch your popcorn along..
3) Even though you were not getting movies of your choice.. some movies that you had put in your wishlist just for the heck of it… to keep getting movies were pouring in pretty regularly.. and you were still happy thinking atleast this way you would broaden your horizons and start developing a taste for different genres. But seventymm wouldnt let you have even this share of fun..
first three/four movies would flow in pretty much on time and then presto.. some one switches you off at their office.. you keep calling to get a dvd picked and get another movie in return.. but the delivery guy never lands up.. he forgot the way to your house.. when you press the executive on phone hard, he/she tells you that the delivery guy came but your house was locked.. maybe you were at your house all through the day but for some reason your neighbor had locked you from outside!
4) Angry and frustrated you call and want to get your subscription terminated.. the customer rep cries buckets and buckets of crocodile tears to persuade you to continue giving all kinds of assurances (I am sure.. if given a chance he would not fail to tell you that the delivery guy will even board a rocket from moon to earth to get your movie delivered if it comes to that!).. you are a fool (please agree that you are.. why else did you sign up with seventymm in the first place) and so you agree to continue..
5) The same story continues..
6) You call up again to get your subscription cancelled.. this time doubly sure.. they finally cancel your subscription much to your relief.. but then you realize that they have conveniently forgotten about your security deposit refund.. now either keep calling them,, or go to consumer court.. or forgive them and believe that ultimately market forces will wipe them out and your revenge would be complete…
I am currently using this Seventymm dvd rental service, its correct that they have got a good collection of movies(except the recent ones). but the thing is that almost all the DVDs r full of scratches, they get struck very often. I have subscribed for 3 months plan, but m fed up with their scratch full dvds. Please be aware of it…
Dont even go to seventymm. If you have a connection, get your refund. They are a bunch of cheats. I got a month connection for unlimited movies two weeks back. All i have is a DVD that wont play, and no one picking call to take orders.
And the website has a button that you need to press to order, but it wont let you click on it.
Please be aware and dont be foolish.
Friends, dont ever use seventymm. They are cheating their subscribers. I am currently using seventymm and having a frustrating experience.
If you call the customer care, guess what, they wont even care. Do you know why. Because you have already paid the fees.
All they want is your registration fees and once you have paid, you will be luckey if you get the DVDs. And by the time you have seen a few good movies that you really wanted to see, your registration period is already over. And you will be sitting fuming over the money lost.
I agree with your comments Sanjeev. I have had similar experience and one of my friends too.
These people from seventymm have cheated us of our money. My friend had warned me about this but i made the mistake of going for it. now i am repenting it.
Thanks Sanjeev. I was under the impression Seventymm had closed down. At least is has here in Hyderabad and other parts of South India. Where are you from?
Same experience here too Rahul. Anyway because of it I've decided not to try Reliance BigFlix either because Reliance is even worse when it comes to customer service.
bought seventymm membership and i have very bad experience with them. they delivered just 2 movies on the 1st two days after getting membership and they took more than a month to pickup the DVD's back. when i called the helpdesk they told “They are facing shortage in resource” and as per the plan they are suppose to give the money back in 15 days if not satisfied with their service. almost 2 months over money refund has not happened yet. Don't ever take membership from them.
I thought it was closed. Surprising its still running. I never had issues with delivery or pickup, but I always got old movies and never the latest.
Seventymm is one of the worstest movie rental company, their customer care is so bad that i have not come across such a bad company like seventymm till today. its one of the worst company and just cheating. People beware of this company and if you wan to lose peace of mind and Money, join for this seventymm
I have to agree with you Vivek, but I'm surprised its still running. It closed shop a long time ago in Hyderabad. Which city are you based in?
Seventymm is total fraud. I purchased 5 DVDs from their website a month ago. Now they are selling DVDs. It has been 1 month, and I received 1 damaged DVD, and two DVDs which were sold by promising something else (They promised me Jungle book DVDs aired on Indian TV, but I received some old flop copy of same). The other two DVDs they claim to have adjusted as shipping cost the first 3 DVDs.
They do not seem to have a customer care department, and are working based on fact that its very difficult to get legal justice. recommend avoid dealing with them at all costs.
I took subscription in January. So far I hav been delivered only 2 DVDs. All the complaints I made to the customer care were never taken care of. I have not seen this kind of pathetic movie rental service. Their acceptance of delivery request through wish-list always shows error for me. I am subscribed to Big Flix too. They never disappointed me like this. Take subscription at your own risk. They will suck money and leave you gasping for breath.
Reading all ur comments, my comment may surprise you that BIGFLIX’s service has been superb so far, they have never missed delivery & pickup even once during last 15 days since my subscription started. keeping my fingers crossed.
Offcourse Big flix is much more better option available as compared to any other services around.Anybody up for online movie services go for it.Have been using it for the past 5 months and services r really useful and worth.
Big Flix has much better service and availability of movies throughout the country..2000+ movies on the go with the launch of their mobile app.
Dont really know about seventytym as its here in ma area but been using Big Flix for a while and really impressed by the collection and their services..wud like to thnx them…