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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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What would happen if you bought one of those 50$ Visa gift cards with cash, then turned around and rented 50 movies from a redbox, and never turned them in?
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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Unless you used completely false info on the pre-paid card, they would find you and eat your 1st born.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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Better watch out those bastards will kill you ask ross.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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I did some research for you. They won't take gift cards. But, they will take pre-paid cards. Though, you have to give your personal info such as SSN to get one, so probably not a good idea.
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Drew Linky
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Joined: Jun 12 2009
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Yeah. HUGE mistake.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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I dunno, I swear I've bought pre paid gift cards with cash and never had to show Id, maybe the teller wasn't paying attention.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16127
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Gift cards are different from rechargeable debit cards. Those redboxes will take the rechargeable card, but not the gift cards.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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So if you managed to snag a prepaid without using any traceable info it would work? Who would redbox bring the hammer down on, the store that sold the card without requiring a signature / ID? Not that I'd ever do something this stupid, it just ran across my mind when I was returning some movies today.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Yeah, but stores don't sell them unless u fill out all pertinent info. I think you're confusing gift card and rechargeable card.
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Klimbatize wrote: |
I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Wouldn't be the first time I confused something.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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And that's how I gave anal.
"I was confused.... It was an accident"
Lol it's never an accident
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Klimbatize wrote: |
I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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sometimes redbox will accept a pre-paid or a gift card the first time, but not after that.
And you can only rent a maximum of 5 movies.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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username wrote: |
And that's how I gave anal.
"I was confused.... It was an accident"
Lol it's never an accident |
Hey it can happen accidentally, you just have to have really bad aim.
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
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Joined: May 11 2008
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Just get a heavy duty chain, a pick up truck, and steal the whole damn thing.
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JonSnow
Joined: Nov 03 2006
Posts: 763
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Share someone's netflix account.
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 The One Truth Will Prevail
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
Location: Da D.C
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sidewaydriver wrote: |
Just get a heavy duty chain, a pick up truck, and steal the whole damn thing. |
i think their would be less actual risk with that idea
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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snesguy1012 wrote: |
sidewaydriver wrote: |
Just get a heavy duty chain, a pick up truck, and steal the whole damn thing. |
i think their would be less actual risk with that idea |
If I could get it to bypass needing a card swipe and access to whatever database that card swipe goes in it would be pretty sweet (but retarded) to have a redbox sitting in my apartment, kind of like a vending machine set to give free sodas.
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
Location: Da D.C
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or like a arcade machine that no longer needs quarters
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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that would be much cooler than a redbox.
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
Location: Da D.C
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i once knew a dentist with donkey kong, pac man, galaga, and donkey kong jr in his waiting room and they were all free to play. I asked him where he got them and he responded with one word...
Internet
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