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Posted by Snowden Wyatt on 09/27/01 11:30
dvaoa@altavista.com wrote:
> Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>
>>dvaoa@altavista.com wrote:
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>>>Has anone here noticed that a lot of Netflix DVD's are just recently
>>>showing up as "short wait" or "long wait"? I've been with them for ~4
>>>months ans I've never had an availablility problem until the last 2-3
>>>weeks. All of a sudden, I look at my 70+ movie queue, and about a
>>>quarter of them are on some sort of wait list. Most of my selections
>>>are older films to boot.
>>>
>>>Am I the only one?
>>
>>I see it also, but what's even stranger is that things swing from "Long
>>Wait" to "Now" and back again.
>>
>>Mark's theory is that "Now" means copies in stock, "Short Wait" means
>>lots of copies but all currently out, and "Long Wait" means a few copies
>>that are all currently out.
>>
>>In any case, we have no shortage of movies on our list that are
>>available now. :-)
>>
>
> You're lucky...my "wait" list seems to be growing by the day, like a
> bad fungus. I'm wondering if the good people at Netflix are losing
> their motivation for rapid turnaround since they've absorbed Walmart's
> DVD rental division. Their only competition in town is Blockbuster,
> and I don't see them lasting.
>
> RF
>
I have 70+ movies in my queue and all of them are available now.
I beleive the fact the much of your queue is made up of older films has
something to do with your issue. Netflix probably orders many fewer
copies of older films, so they have a higher percentage chance to be all
out at the same time. Probably only the very new/hot releases are
harder to keep in stock, and that is probably alleviated by the larger
quantities of stock that Netflix keeps of new releases.
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