For those of you lucky enough to be in a market that Redbox is in - (see Redbox Locations map to see if you are one of the lucky ones) - you are in even more luck now.
The other night Aubrey and I decided that we should try out Redbox. After all, there is a McDonalds that is less than three minutes away from our house. When we walked in, I was slightly annoyed to have to wait behind some girl who seemed to be taking a while. She redeemed herself, however, when she turned to us and said “Oh, you know about the codes, right?” and proceeded to spout off about six or seven promotional codes for us to use.
I remembered one of the easy ones she said. “Greg” - I typed it in, and sure enough - free rental.
I realized that for one person to have that many redbox codes - she must either be a 1337 redbox hAx0r - and she used a device Q gave her to access the inner workings of the boxes memory to extract the codes - or there is some website that just gives a list of tons of codes.
Lucky for the rest of us, there is a website. They keep a constantly updated list of Redbox codes - codes that work across the whole United States - and codes that only work in specific regions. Codes are given scores, and the higher a code’s score - the more likely it is to work for you. They are listed in descending order - and they show the last date that they were used in the list.
In the comments on the website, one guy in Salt Lake claims to have rented about 50 movies from Redbox - and only paid for one… Let that be the standard the rest of us strive for - except for the paying for one part.
Here is the Mother of all RedBox codes lists.
March 6th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Hope this works better than the free iTunes code… arg.
PS unrelated Ryan your site is increasingly slower each time I visit, maybe it’s the new ad every time I come.
March 6th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Papermate emailed me a new iTunes code - they will probably email you one too…
I think my server is getting slower because my host sucks. I might try a new host in a little while.
Oh, and the Redbox codes definitely work
March 6th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
We just used one of the codes and we are now going to watch flight plan tonight. We had to try a few of the codes before we got one to work. Thanks for telling us about this. We have a mcdonalds 5 minutes away =)
March 8th, 2006 at 12:01 am
The nice thing about it is that you can use each code once with each credit or debit card that you have. At least that’s how the automatic DVD rental machines work in this town. Not Redbox but similar.
March 11th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Looks like Google helped the governement shut down that website Ryan. Can you find it again, I’m sure they’ll be hosting somewhere else soon.
March 11th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I think his database is just not working right now… maybe his server sucks.
In the meantime, try these:
“Charlie” “Greg” “Gorilla” “Cory” “Jerry” “Pete”
Those should all work.
I have a Dashboard widget that gives me a bunch of fresh codes now
I’ll post a link to the widget later on… for all the OS X users to enjoy