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Gametart Games Rental

Well-established site covering next gen consoles well and also EVERY PS2 title available in the UK

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Visit Gametart Site Gametart has been a consistent winner since starting up in May 2004, and is our top recommendation for PS2 owners, stocking every title out released. They claim to be the UK's top games rental company, and we agree for PS2 and PSP, though not for other platforms.

Gametart's distinctive red and black website includes a basic search engine and allows browsing by their thousands of video game titles through 13 genres. One of our favourite features is the 'on hold' system which allows customers to reserve a game that they really want while they are returning a current rental.

Instructions for rental games are emailed to the customer and turnaround times between games are reputedly excellent. They claim that 98% of the time your game will arrive the next day, though as ever this largely depends on the Royal Mail's efficiency. We particularly like that you can suspend your account, say if you're going on holiday or have a busy stretch at work or exams; not all companies have this facility, and their indefinite suspension policy can certainly save money in these cases.

We have heard minor complaints about Gametart limiting the rental queue to ten titles. This has now been remedied and you may now have up to 20 titles in your queue.

Gametart have expanded beyond their PS2 specialization of a couple years back and boast over 1700 unique titles, supporting all major consoles except the Xbox, Gamecube, and Gameboy Advance. They stock 1600+ game titles for PS2, 100+ for XBox 360, 100+ for the Wii, 700+ for XBox and 300+ for PSP, 400+ for the GameCube, and 80+ so far for the PS3.

Like most of the online games rental companies they don't offer a customer service phone number. So beware of slow response to customer emails, which may cause problems if you want to cancel a subscription.

Prices: Game Tart offer two simple price plan options, and are the only major game rental company to charge by the week instead of the month. Price are £2.99 a week for 1 game at-a-time (unlimited) and £3.99 a week for 2 games at-a-time (unlimited) which will be charged every 28 days. New subscribers will auutomatically be assigned to the 1-at-a-time tariff.

For comparison, these price structures represent an equivalent of £12.96 a month for 1 game at-a-time and £17.29 per calender month for 2 games at-a-time--slightly above industry pricing norms. They will continue to offer an industry standard ten day free trial.

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Gametart Game Rental Customer Comments
 

Ricky from Notts, March 23, 2008

i was only with gamtart for the free trial period, i recieved 1 game from them which came in good time however the game crashed 10 minutes into the game at a certain point. i contacted them to cancel my trial and they did it pretyty much instantly and took no extra payments or anything.

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Lynne Leicester, March 16, 2008

Rubbish service, poor customer service. Charged me after I cancelled even though they didn't send any discs??????????. Poor communication - difficult getting money back.

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Pinkie Toe, February 21, 2008

Rubbish service. Only got 1 game, which took ages to get to get to me. When I went to cancel the number you call wont let you leave a message. I did email them to tell them I was cancelling and that I was unable to leave a message. I got an email saying that they had cancelled it, but then they took money out of my account anyway! I did get it back but what a hassle! The free trial was not worth it!

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Andy, July 3, 2007

Took a supposedly free 21-day trial in which I recieved only 1 game! 1 game! Sent the game back a week before the end of my trial so i could cancel. Went to the cancel section on the website where you can't actually cancel your contract!!! Just gives you a number to ring where you have to leave your details. However was unable to as the phone inbox was full!!! Tried for nearly a week phone inbox still full. Emailed them several times no reply. Got an email today saying they had recieved my game (nearly a week after sending it) and my account is not cancelled so have been charged!!! TERRIBLE! Use Lovefilm or Tesco rental miles miles better than this dismal service.

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Games at a time:
1: £2.99 per week(Unlimited)
2 : £3.99 per week (Unlimited)

Platforms:
Wii (90+)
PS3 (80+)
PS2 (1120+)
PSP (180+)
DS (80+)
Xbox 360 (160+)

Free Trial: 10 days

Titles: 1,700+
Film Rentals: no
Phone Contact: no

Contact:
Game Tart Limited
PO Box 8062
Nottingham
NG7 7WG

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