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Is there such a thing as FREE MOVIE DOWNLOADS?
Simply put…..NO.
It is very rare that you get anything for FREE
these days. Movie downloads are no exception. Ultimately you will be sold on
something. You may be asked to join a newsletter first before you make a
purchase, and then may eventually purchase something that interests you from
the newsletter. Be sure that the company is reputable. How do you do this? Some
simple signs are:
- Company
has a privacy statement
- Customer
service links are present
- Look
for phone numbers if you have a product query or technical question on how
to download movies or at the very least have access to customer service
email
- Check Alexa.com
(click http://developers.evrsoft.com/find-traffic-rank.shtml
to check rankings. Alex is run by Amazon.com) for the traffic ranking of
the site. All you have to do is type in the web address and view the
ranking. If the company is at least below the 2 million mark, then the
site gets a fair bit of traffic. Remember, traffic is a great indicator
that the merchant is serious and is providing a service that is in demand,
and is of quality. Not all companies can be at the top……those who are have
serious marketing budgets to get traffic and loads of staff to market the
site (and a great big I.T. department) such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, Amazon,
CNN, and the like.
- Any
affiliations with better business bureaus, and links to other reputable
sites (or more commonly know as business partners)
- The
site offers payment via all major credit cards AS WELL AS Paypal. PayPal
is vastly becoming one of the most preferred methods of payment via the
internet as you can use your credit card or funds debited from your own
bank account and deposited into your PayPal account to use freely on the
net. No fear of credit card fraud here. Goo thing to watch out for!
Movie download sites and their marketing campaigns will get
you to click on their ads (paid advertisements) thinking that you will get free
movies. The actual movies may be FREE
after you have paid the sign up fee. The initial FEE to join a movie download site is charged so you can download
the software required to download movies of your choice. Charges range from $20 USD through to
$100 USD depending on what you want access to. Once you have paid
the fee, then you will usually have UNLIMITED MOVIE DOWNLOAD access for life, or as
long as the company is in business.
If you do come across a site offering FREE movie downloads, and they are current movies, then chances are
they are pirate copies. You will usually notice that the movie you downloaded
is poor quality, not in digital format, and is acquired by someone taking a
video camera into a movie theatre and recording the movie. Pay close attention
as you may see a flicker or pause in the film that denotes someone hitting the
pause button in order to hand the recorder to a friend so they can go to the
bathroom. Better still, you may see someone in the theatre get up out of their
seat and move across the screen! Not unusual. You may have even been to a
cinema and experienced someone in there crouching discreetly so that you do not
notice them filming the movie!
If you are looking
for physical DVDs to purchase, then do not join one of these sites.
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