Random UV movies appeared in VUDU account

[BlakkMajik3000]

So, I generally use iTunes these days, but I logged in to my VUDU account today and noticed I had 6 movies in SD, that I never purchased:
1. Away From Her
2. Paranormal Activity
3. The Producers (2005)
4. Psycho (1998)
5. Soul Survivors
6. Valentine's Day

I'm not able to draw any connection to any of these films. At first, I thought it might have been my sister-in-law, as a couple of the movies appear to be the type she would buy, but she confirmed she had not purchased them. I checked my VUDU purchase history, and all these show as purchases on my account.

Just to be clear, I was not charged for these. They just magically popped up in my account. Has this happened to anyone else before? Not going to complain about free movies, it was just weird to see.

[carkey]

Pretty sure these are the six intro movies when you link your UV account or sign up originally for ultraviolet


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[KFelon]

Originally Posted by BlakkMajik3000

So, I generally use iTunes these days, but I logged in to my VUDU account today and noticed I had 6 movies in SD, that I never purchased:
1. Away From Her
2. Paranormal Activity
3. The Producers (2005)
4. Psycho (1998)
5. Soul Survivors
6. Valentine's Day

I'm not able to draw any connection to any of these films. At first, I thought it might have been my sister-in-law, as a couple of the movies appear to be the type she would buy, but she confirmed she had not purchased them. I checked my VUDU purchase history, and all these show as purchases on my account.

Just to be clear, I was not charged for these. They just magically popped up in my account. Has this happened to anyone else before? Not going to complain about free movies, it was just weird to see.

3 of those were definitely some of the free movies given away for signing up to Vudu and adding a credit card. However that promotion was at least 3 years ago.

3. The Producers (2005)
4. Psycho (1998)
6. Valentine's Day

[Andyways]

Originally Posted by BlakkMajik3000

So, I generally use iTunes these days, but I logged in to my VUDU account today and noticed I had 6 movies in SD, that I never purchased:
1. Away From Her
2. Paranormal Activity
3. The Producers (2005)
4. Psycho (1998)
5. Soul Survivors
6. Valentine's Day

I'm not able to draw any connection to any of these films. At first, I thought it might have been my sister-in-law, as a couple of the movies appear to be the type she would buy, but she confirmed she had not purchased them. I checked my VUDU purchase history, and all these show as purchases on my account.

Just to be clear, I was not charged for these. They just magically popped up in my account. Has this happened to anyone else before? Not going to complain about free movies, it was just weird to see.

You can check myuv.com and it will show the vendor and date of purchase

[casperuk]

How do I get these freebies?

[squatting hen]

Originally Posted by casperuk

How do I get these freebies?

Find Doc Brown and see if he can take you back a few years. I would pick up an Almanac too, just in case.

[casperuk]

Booo. You know you cannot mess with time!

[DrrnHarr]

Originally Posted by KFelon

3 of those were definitely some of the free movies given away for signing up to Vudu and adding a credit card. However that promotion was at least 3 years ago.

3. The Producers (2005)
4. Psycho (1998)
6. Valentine's Day

Yes, I have those on my account to, so I would guess that the rest were free ones for signing up with vendors, I know I got free movies for signing up with Flixster, and more for signing up with CinemaNow. But, as was mentioned that was several years ago (2009 for me), and they were all SD back then.
I've since replaced five of them with HDX, namely Crocodile Dundee, Battlestar Galactica (1978), The Italian Job, Big Trouble in Little China, Master and Commander

[BlakkMajik3000]

I finally went and checked them on myuv.com. Sure enough, they all have a purchase date of April 13, 2013 from VUDU. I'm pretty sure that's the day I signed up for UV.

Just curious as to why they showed up in my account now, if they were granted when I initially signed up.

Even after 4 years, UV still does things I don't understand.

[squatting hen]

Originally Posted by BlakkMajik3000

I finally went and checked them on myuv.com. Sure enough, they all have a purchase date of April 13, 2013 from VUDU. I'm pretty sure that's the day I signed up for UV.

Just curious as to why they showed up in my account now, if they were granted when I initially signed up.

Even after 4 years, UV still does things I don't understand.

Guess they could have been from Flixster and when they closed, they transferred them to Vudu. That would be my guess.

[JJReal]

I remember the four promotional movies given to me. It was irritating to me that they were SD quality. If your going to give something away give it away, don't half a$$ it. I remember asking to pay the difference to upgrade them to HD if available. "Oh no, you'll have to pay the full price for an HD quality version sir". I believe that was the beginning of my frustration dealing with VUDU.

[Snoopyntx]

Yep the same thing happen to me when Flixster closed my Looney Tunes Platinum collection from them finally ported over to Vudu in UV format.