Box Office Express video rental machine

General information concerning the
dvd / move / video / game / rental kiosk machine
that goes by the name of Box Office Express:

=- Machine originally marketed by American Entertainment Distributors (who are now out of business) -=

Please use the links to do your own research ...

Negative Press

$19 Million DVD Kiosk Scam

DVD Vending Machine Scam Convictions

According to the RipOffReport.com website, the original company ripped off some would-be entrepreneurs and then went out of business or was shut down by the courts.

Apparently the FTC is after that company and has filed a court case

In some of these links, you may have to search the page for "American Entertainment Distributors" ...

MSNBC - Indecent (business) proposal

Mentioned on the Better Business Bureau site

CNN - Crackdown targets work-at-home scams

VOX magazine article - Rise of the machine

Weekly Albertan - DVD rentals fail to reel in students

Video Technology Magazine- Stay Away

Kiosk Marketplace - Will DVD kiosks take off?

People forget (or never noticed) that various incarnations of these devices
have come and gone over the past 20+ years.

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