It’s like they’ve dropped off the face of the Earth.
About a month and a half ago, after years of satisfied service, GamezNFlix.com sent me the first damaged disc I’d ever received from them. I e-mailed them promptly, figuring they would call shenanigans and accuse me of some wrongdoing (Gamefly did this to me several times, prompting me to abandon them and use GNF in the first place). To my surprise, they apologized and said if I’d return it to them, they’d send me a working replacement as soon as possible. Yet again, I was impressed with their service, and for half the price of either of the competition that only offer movies or games, but not both as GNF does. Or rather, did.…
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26 - Moedean
Im keeping my game I have, Im kinda ticked that I had sent back two games a couple weeks before that went under and never got anything new; wish I had just kept them even if they never sent me anything decent.
27 - joe
feel bad for the people who invested in the gameznflix stock
28 - Nick
Check this out guys:
... looks like bankruptcy filing.... which sucks... this was a great service ...
29 - Mark Buckingham
Looks pretty final to me. Would have been nice if instead of "Pardon our dust" they put "Going out of business, everything must go!" on the site when they were going under. If they'd have had a fire sale on games before shutting down, I'd have probably bought at least a few.
30 - Johnny
I think, if any of you guys were members of GamezNFlix, come to Gamefly, even though the prices are not all that great you have the great shipping time.
31 - Johnny
Rather than do nothing waiting for a response from this dead company, I have been using Gamefly for a month now and they give pretty good service.
32 - Mark Buckingham
I used Gamefly for a while before. They kept accusing me of stealing games that never even arrived at my door. After the second or third shipping problem, they decided to suspend my account while they investigated the situation. Right around that time I heard about GNF and left Gamefly behind for good. I actually had better shipping and turnaround times with GNF anyway.
33 - Brandon
Just an FYI:
I disputed the November '08 charge with my credit card company and they credited my account. No problems at all.
34 - hahah
Did any of you bother looking at their stock? They went out of business. Tada, mystery solved.
35 - T
This service stunk. I always had over 40 games in my queue, but oddly enough, I also always had zero games at my house (and many of the games in my queue were on "high availability"). Every time I would complain, they would say "Sorry, we only have a limited number of copies of each game. Please be sure you have plenty of movies and games in your queue...blah, blah, blah." Towards the end of GNF, I added a few older games to my queue and they actually shipped them. So, I have 3 Xbox 360 games that I get to keep. Even though the service sucked, I can't complain about the outcome, I guess.
36 - Ryan
The service always sucked.. I was very let down after the first month or so. I signed up way back at the beginning. Anyways... another service for games besides Gamefly that rocks is Gamerang.com which has been around a while and has a great library and has them in stock ready to ship much sooner than gamefly.
37 - jim
always felt something was going on. always took too long to get games and when they changed my service from 8 out at a time to 3 out at a time without an explanation, I gave them 3 more months and cancelled subscription in may of 08
38 - David
I never had any issues with them. I stopped using them about a year ago simply because I didn't have time to play games so no point in paying.
I was hoping to get back to using them. I just checked their site because I was going to sign back up, but saw it was gone.
That's too bad too. Given the fact they had games and movies and half the cost of anywhere else.
But I was with them for about two years and could see the writing on the wall about a year in. I thought it was such a good deal that I actually bought stock in them. Unfortunately, they had lousy decision makers.
They wasted money starting up a TV channel and trying to sell logo merchandise. They could have used that money to advertise mainstream and build the subscriber base.
39 - Mark
Agreed. The pricing and options are what kept me around (that and getting screwed by Gamefly), but I was likely never going to buy a GNF t-shirt or anything. A better selection of recent big movies would have helped, too, though I did find some older obscure titles that bigger outfits didn't have, Blockbuster included.
40 - Tommy
I noticed the site said This is parked courtesy of godaddy.com
What does it mean to park a domain name?
Question 2 of 3
Essentially, to park a domain name means to reserve your registered domain until you have created the site content, found a hosting provider, or sold the domain to a third party.
When you park your site, a temporary Web page will be displayed until you have decided what to do with the domain.
Domain name parking is often used by registrants who do not yet have a hosting provider.
Parking options include a one-page Web site that'll inform the visitor to the site that, for example, this page is "Under Construction," "Coming Soon," or "For Sale."
You can also elect to have a customized page displayed.
To set up your parked domain, use the One-Page Web Site Setup Wizard in the "Parked Pages" section of the account management department.
41 - Sharon
I never had a problem with GNF. I had a disc that never arrived and I called or e-mailed and they sent a new one right out. Another time I think one was scratched and that same thing, just send it back and we'll send out a new one. I keep trying to find companies that rent out both games and movies, but to no such luck. Plus they were the only ones that had Blu-Ray and such, and didn't even attempt at an upcharge for those.
I did purchase stock, and got a notification that the symbol changed. There was no other notice before that. Oh well, only spent $25 on that bombed investment.
42 - James R. Bryan
Anyone thinking of doing business with any company headed by Donald G Gallent or Donald N Gallent (aka Chip Gallent) should RUN the other way. These two jokers have been defrauding people since the late 80s. Their SOP is to start a company with a bunch of loans, take the company public to get a bunch of investor money, and then take off with the funds and let the company go bankrupt--all the while earning a nice little salary for themselves. These two should be in jail for the rest of their lives. I used to work with both of them. They started out by sinking a perfectly good software/hardware company named Digitran in the 90s. Now GameZnFlix. Tomorrow, who knows? DON’T DO BUSINESS WITH THESE CROOKS!!!!