Vote with your feet and sign up somewhere else!

Rgds
Richard

Also if you get a lot of dvd’s in a month they get slow in snding them out. These are the tactics thye use.
They say they did not receive your dvd back say for up to anything like 4 days and blame An Post when An Post deliver most of their post next day delivery in Ireland but not to Moviestar.
They only send out 1 or 2 dvd’s when in fact you should be getting 3 if you have paid for 3 dvd’s to be sent at a time.
They say they post a dvd or dvd’s to you and you do not receive them the next day and they again blame An Post and it could take anything normally up to 3 days for you to get a dvd from them.
They do not send you ANY new releases that yo may have in your top 20 or anywhere on your list if you are a high user they just send you rubbish that you dont really want but just put stuff on your list to fill it up as they recommend that you have 50+ in your list for you to always recieve dvd’s.

Basically it looks like they do everything they can to stop you getting more dvd’s when they think that you have enough got for the month so basicaly when they say unlimited they DO NOT mean unlimited.

An Post should be made aware of Moviestar.ie blaiming them of the delays when it is quiet obvious what they are up to.

Rgds
Richard

Hence why the GS is an completely discredited entity at this stage…

Let’s hope that next year they either revamp or retire.

“best website”?
nae danger.

ONLY IN IRELAND would you find such a post!

I am writing from Screenclick. We have already reported Moviestar and busybeedvd for renting RETAIL new release product which costs a fraction of what they should be buying! Would you compare buying a E5 DVD at a market to buying from PLAY.com????

If you receive a DVD from either of these companies with a second sticker covering up the “NOT FOR RENTAL” warning you should report them to the studios or http://www.rentalrightsprotection.org. Check out the web site for prosecutuions they have already carried out in Ireland.

Lots of people – including millions upon millions of Web users (like yourself) around the world. Not to mention search engines. And let’s not forget those pioneering the future of the web – who want to ensure we don’t experience another dot.com crash.

I cant knock the service.

If the site does what it says on the tin then happy-go-merry. I agree with you wholeheartedly.

However, the site that won the Golden Spider is not the site that you see today (well certainly the homepage has changed appreciably).

Thanks for your comment

The current Moviestar site is by far the best DVD rental site in Ireland. I hesitated about joining after reading all the bad press about the brothers Mac, and their goings on across the pond, but so far I have no complaints, and like most people out there who are reasonably honest with themselves, couldn’t care less if the DVDs come with a NOT FOR RENTAL stamp.

Now that I check again, it has been removed from the index on all DCs.

Weird. I guess we’ll find out in the coming weeks.

I can understand relegation in the SERPs but not removal from the index.

I don’t know if their ranking algo is that good yet to avoid abuse of this.

Oh well, something to keep an eye on.

Tin-hat time.

Never seen a honeymoon that short

http://www.google.com/search?q=moviestar.ie

And who said that META description wasn’t useful anymore

Also, it won the award for website launch, there’s a seperate category for innovation.

And finally it’s the Golden Spiders!!

If someone launched an amazon AWS store and packaged it nicely, would that be innovative? Would that really be “the best website launched in 2006″

Dave – I don’t really think the underlying CMS is very important in judging a site, that would be a bit like slagging off a site just because they use WordPress. Their business model is based on Netflix sure, but it’s not a franchise. It’s great model and i’m glad it’s been introduced to Ireland.

“IdeGP DRS – the most powerful Online Rental Software for Renting DVDs, CDs, Video Games, Adult DVDs, and Books over the web. With Streaming Video on Demand available now! A 100% Web-based customizable software solution to start your online business or expand your existing business to compete successfully with NetFlix and Blockbuster. Easy to launch! Allows organizing a warehouse at the lowest cost! No technical skills required for warehouse team. Price attractive. Personal approach to every client. Rental business Franchise”

With all due respect, is purchasing a script and setting up a “Franchise” all I need to do to win a GS?

Thanks for your comment.

The site has been updated – the current site is not the site that won the prize. I might have a screen-shot somewhere, but it wasn’t too pretty.

The new homepage is quite good actually (IMO).

As I said, it’s only my subjective belief and as a business I am not faulting moviestar.ie, but to say that it is (was – the previous iteration won the award) the best website launched in 2006 is unjust.

Again, I apologise for letting subjective belief come into the conversation, but this award just sends the wrong message IMHO.

Compare it to Sceenclick’s website, a direct competitor, and you can see it’s infinitely better at getting accross the idea of the product:
http://www.screenclick.com/Default.aspx

It’s got very little content on the homepage, it’s got a few core messages to get accross which is very important with a new service. It’s also visually attractive and gives a positive impression of the brand.

It is a damn good website. It may not be coded well and it may have accessibility issues but that doesn’t detract from the fact that for 99% of the audience, it’s a well executed website which is well targeted and useful.

Interactivity? A link to videodetective?

Will I go on?
I’m getting tired of bitching. I’m going to submit myself for an award next year.

“Moviestar.ie currently ‘owns’ the top 10 Google.com positions for the search phrase ‘moviestar.ie’.”

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