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Posted by Derek Janssen on 02/11/06 23:14
Sam Rouse wrote:
> In article <1139693140.731896.286630@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "wunnuy" <wunnuy@netzero.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm
>>sick of people who stick up for Netflix's false advertising by WHINING
>>that people who complain about it should just be happy with what they
>>get. That's not the point. The point is, Netflix claims one thing and
>>does the opposite. If they make "Throttling" part of their advertising,
>>then no one will "whine" (except for you I think).
>
>
> Well, if your little crusade results in a fixed monthly limit being applied, I
> will have something to whine about on the rare weeks when I have the time and
> desire to watch 7 movies in 7 days. As it stands now, when that happens, I
> still get my more typical 3 per week for the rest of the month, with one-day
> shipping.
And there's a point we *usually* see in these Netflix whiner-wars
threads right about now, and has so far been conspicuous by its absence:
We're sad that throttling "won't let" us rent twenty movies a month...
Which raises the obvious and quite reasonable question of just how in
heaven's name CAN you "rent twenty movies a month" on a 3 or 4-out plan?
0_o??
(I, for example, have only been averaging three movies a week on my
3-out plan, until I recently upgraded to four movies a week on my 4-out
plan...For some reason, that's never particularly struck me as odd.)
And usually, the detractors are quite happy to answer it:
"Yeah, I got their whole system figured out, I know how to shake 'em
down!--I watch the whole movie in one sitting, and then I go out at
midnight and drop it in the corner mailbox so it'll already be returned
by the first morning pickup, and I can average five or six in one week
and keep that twenty-record going, yeah!"
Um...well. Goodness. We DO like our "free" rentals then, don't we? :/
Gotta admit, that's certainly pulling a smarter fast-one on those greedy
corporate bastards than the *rest* of us, who are unimaginative enough
to simply kick back on a Friday night and watch that recent movie we
missed in theaters, and maybe an episode off the latest "24" volume,
over a couple nights, retire to bed, and drop the envelope in our handy
front-door mailbox the next morning for the postman...
Seeing as we're not THAT obsessed with home-theater--and merely wish to
have a rental in our mailbox because we got tired of driving out to
Blockbuster to return them--rather than calisthenically spend a
conscious portion of our spare time trying to get something for less
than we paid for it.
....Which is the target audience of the poor "throttled" customer:
Normal people, who merely patronize a service at the face value at which
it is offered, and who, the company can confidently predict, will *not*
go excessively out of their way to bleed them dry. :)
Derek Janssen (and if WE'RE "normal", then...)
ejanss@comcast.net
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