{"id":354,"date":"2009-02-01T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-02-01T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T01:30:00","slug":"zipped-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/02\/01\/zipped-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Zipped Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About 3 weeks ago, I signed up for Zip.ca<\/a>, an online DVD rental site. I pay $25\/month and they mail me DVDs with prepaid envelopes to mail the DVDs back. I can have up to 3 films at a time and when I finish viewing one, I mail it back and they send me one the same day (I notify them on the website that I put it in the mail).\u00a0<\/div>\n
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It’s been working great! I’ve watched 7 movies so far – several of which would not even be available at my local video store. Plus there are huge savings. I can easily watch 10 films in a month from zip.ca. That’s $2.50 per movie whereas locally I would pay $5 (the same as the going cost to buy a previously viewed movie!). It’s also tremendously convenient. I can keep the movies for as long as I like (they actually make more money if I take a long time to watch it). They come right to my door and then I drop them off in a local mail slot on my way to work in the mornings.<\/div>\n
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The selection is really what I celebrate. They have a multitude of old classics, foreign films, documentaries, and best of all the Criterion Collection<\/a>. I simply pick the movies I want to watch – I’ve got 66 in the queue now – and put them in the order I’d like to receive them. They do their best to send them in that order (I usually get movies from my top 10).\u00a0<\/div>\n
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To see what I’ve been watching lately, check out Zaak Watches Movies (by himself)<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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