Review: HitBliss
With my crazy grad school schedule and budget, the Fiance and I are often looking for cheap ways to spend the weekends. When the dragons are defeated, dungeons emptied, and cheap beer is long gone, tv and movies are the next logical step. The Fiance discovered HitBliss a while back and they have recently up since I’m fighting off a migraine and a pile of homework as vicious as Sauron on a Monday, check out his review from his blog, Hipsterminia, below.
Tech You’ve Never Heard of: HitBliss
Since I’m sure you don’t know about this bit of software you can read my original review here, but I’ll give you the rundown to save you time. Hitbliss is a program that lets you earn money (we’ll call them Hitbucks) for viewing ads which you can then use your Hitbucks to purchase episodes of TV shows or rent movies. It does have a problem is being limited to only $6 Hitbucks (raised from the $5 since the orginal review) but you earn fairly quickly so it’s not a big deal. Now since my last review Hitbliss has added two things that make it must have program now. First, they let you purchase a Pandora subscription (even though Pandora has lost ground to Spotify it’s still a great service and being able to get it ad free for just a few minutes of your time a month is pretty good). The second and most recent addition is being able to purchase videos from Amazon, yes I know you didn’t know that Amazon had videos.
There are still a few annoying things- you’re limited to only three Amazon purchases a day, although that limit does not apply to movie rentals, but between Amazon and Hitbliss you can find something to waste time on. The last time I used the program the ads kept rotating; Now the ads end and you’re told there are no more ads to view which is easily rectified by clicking on view ads again allowing them to reload. The biggest problem is that most, if not all, of Amazon’s collection is available in SD .the HD selection is limited but hopefully that’ll change soon.
Even with the three purchases per day limitation for Amazon, Hitbliss is a must have program to increase your digital library. Go download it now or use my referral link so I can earn $2.
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Claire is a self proclaimed books and movies nerd, and spends her free time watching way too much TV and playing with her daughter who loves Doctor Who. By day she’s a grad student studying sustainability, by night a geek mom making the next generation awesome. She drinks too much coffee (if there is such a thing) and enjoys relaxing with her dog Judy and a good book.
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You’ll be “happy” to know that they just changed their policy from 3 Amazon downloads a day to 5 per week! boo 🙁 I’ve only been using Hitbliss for a couple of weeks and love it! Wish they wouldn’t have changed the limit.
Hey Claire, thanks for the review and suggestions, much appreciated. Regarding the recent purchase limit change, there is an explanation on our blog about this (http://www.hitbliss.com/blog/purchase-limit-changes/). Also, regarding HD content…this is something that we’re evaluating and will potentially add post-beta. Thanks.
Awesome! I’ll keep my eye out for any updates. 🙂
The service quality is a full of crap. Every time I tried to use earned reward, the program delays the process, cancels the transaction, and shows “internet connectivity problem” while my internet connection is at its full speed. Must say that the service is fishy. A good way to steal the cash from you after making you watch and memorize tons of commercials.
We had a lot of issue with it last week and the week before. They were pretty quick to fix the issues when we contacted them, but it was definitely frustrating. I’ve had good experiences with their customer service though, so I would definitely give them a tweet or an email if you have any more issues.
This company can be misleading… After purchasing a few via Hitbliss I noticed that Amazon.com charged me for one of the ones I had earned from HitBliss, even though I had clicked from HitBliss. HitBliss was not willing to take responsibility for this or help me to reimburse the money.
That’s strange. I’ve never run in to that issue before! It’s unfortunate that they won’t take responsibility for it.
Hitbliss is now on hiatus…
this is the message I get after trying to log in
Quote :
In the past few months, we at HitBliss have been working behind the scenes to collaborate with large entertainment services to make our service bigger and better. We have now reached the point where we need to put our beta on hold in order to complete the work on joining forces with these partners.
We anticipate that this hiatus will take a few months. To alleviate the inconvenience this will cause you, we have provided a way to collect your earned-cash balance as an Amazon.com Gift Card*.
Here is how to do it:
Go to the redemption page within the next 14 days to request a claim;
Check your e-mail to find your Amazon.com Gift Card* claim code (Check your junk mail folder if you don’t);
Apply the Amazon.com Gift Card* to your Amazon account;
Thanks for your loyalty and we hope you will be patient until we are back – bigger and better!
Sincerely,
The HitBliss Team
I just opened it up and saw that message as well. I do hope it comes back as it’s a really good service for people like me that love TV and movies but don’t have cable!