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Rent-a-Game
Mwongozi writes: "British broadband users can now rent computer games to see if they are any good before they lay out the cash to buy the full game. This week, BT Openworld revealed details of its Software To Go scheme which lets people rent software by the hour, day or week. This includes games, graphics packages, educational titles and even programs that let you design your garden."
Electronics Boutique launched EB1.COM a while ago. It's the same service, availible to broadband users in the US/Canada. This is old news.
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There are fewer games but it seems cheaper: a game for 7 days for 50 kroner (about 4 UKP), 12 games for 30 days (they select the games) 150 kroner (12 UKP) and 5 games for 7 days for 100 kroner.
All games can be downloaded (they claim to use some sort of streaming technology so they are downloaded on demand rather than everything at once). If you are a CC ADSL customer, you can also temporarily upgrade your bandwidth for a price to speed up the download :)
As long as you're within ten days of the original purchase, you can return it with a receipt. When I worked at an EB, we'd get people returning games all the time because they beat it, didn't like it, whatever... and it was store policy.
Hell, the EB POS software has under the listed return reasons, "Did Not Like"
EB does take down your driver's license number (they ask to see it) and other assorted info. I used to work for EB and they would actually send out letters to people who abused this. Some stores would actually not accept items from certain customers.