Cool, I have been thinking about signing up for this since I am going to have a lot of free house time on my hands (4 months of house arrest). Nice to know about the brightspot hook up too, I will definitely participate in that too. I think I will be signing up for this tomorrow.

6 dollars a month sounds welll worth it lol
and on my laptop, it ypically have 4-5 boxes open at once, usually letting 2-3 yout ube movies load while reading forums/aiming, ect
so I could just have brightspot in the background :D
is it easy to get brightspot to credit an account? or is it a huge pain? :(

Gamefly has saved me hundred of dollars because I have found out personally I didn't want to buy a lot of games after renting them. I have played a huge amount of games this year, and at least half were from Gamefly.

wow, this brightspot thing is really easy to get money for!
I still have 2 question though-
how EASY is it to keep games I have rented from gamefly (that I want to buy)?
how EASY is it to credit my account with brightspot "money"?
if both are easy, ill definatly give gamefly a try at $6 a month :D
thanks for your help!

question 1) All you do is click the Keep It tab and they charge your credit card. You keep the game and they send you another to rent. They also send all the manuals books and Registration codes, just as if it were brand new.

2) Brightspot automatically sends the payment once you sign up. The only issues are in the first month of brightspot service if you don't sign up for brightspot the same day as gamefly.  This is because they send the payment 30 days after you sign up because they don't know your billing date for gamefly yet. Once the first payment is sent they know your biling date and send future payments out on that day.

That Brightspot.tv things does sound like it makes Gamefly worth it. $6 and 30 mins of commercials I don't actually have to watch (just play) is much better than $16.

The biggest issue is remembering to watch those ads, cause I'm lazy hehe.

But the Brightspot.tv is extremely easy to set up...almost too easy in fact. You tell them to link it to your GameFly account, give them your name, etc, but no credit information if I recall. It simply credits directly to your GameFly account, not to your card or anything.

Brightspot.tv did not credit my first month...I signed up for GameFly first then Brightspot.tv a day later...but no big deal. GameFly's first month has always been cheaper anyway.


It's definitely worth it...GameFly's a great service anyway, I don't know why a few people complain. Heck, they gave me a free Wii, but apologized for being late with it and gave me a free year of service as well!
Though I can see why some complain...if they're paying $15-20 bucks a month for it...I certainly would not use it.

BenKenobi88, do you live out west or in the north east (where they have a new shipping center now)?  Because it does take some time for games to ship to me in FL.  Sometimes it can be a week before I get my game (shipping both ways). 

Also, if anyone has a tip on how to get a return to be fast returned let me know.  I tried taking it to different mailing places but so far it's very random.  That would cut my shipping return time in half.  supposedly most of them should scan it in at the post office like blockbuster does in stores for their returns (and a free rental to boot...I also do that, in case you didn't guess).

That said, it's a pretty good deal.  I get the 2 games at a time and I locked in my account for a year in order to keep myself at the lower price they used to have, less than $20 a month I believe.  

I'll try that brightspot.tv thing now that I know it's not that many commercials to watch.