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Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/04/06 19:02
Haddatten Huttendrut wrote:
> In article <JGvqg.258$_M.193@fed1read04>, don <donsdx@gmailSPAMBAD.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>For years I was very lazy about watching my DVDs. I would
>>keep them for weeks at a time before returning them to
>>Netflix. I always got the new releases.
>>
>>One day I thought to myself, "This is selfish and wasteful.
>>People are waiting for these movies and I'm sitting on
>>them." So I resolved to watch the rentals in a timely
>>manner. After I did, my Netflix service went to hell. I
>>had to wait weeks for all new releases.
>>
>>For some reason, my service has improved dramatically in the
>>last month.
>
> Here's what I've found to be a nearly foolproof way of getting new releases -
> put them to the top of your queue and send one DVD per new release back on
> Friday so that it'll be received by NF the Saturday before the Tuesday new
> release date. If they receive it on Monday it usually works too, but is more of
> a crapshoot. They usually start shipping the Tuesday releases on Monday - I
> guess the distributors allow this, since nobody will be receiving the flick
> until the release date. Miss the release date, and you'll have to wait. It may
> not work for more than two new releases per week.
In fact, the rush of Monday shipments to other customers may be one of
the REASONS why "they're keeping the New Releases from you" if they
don't all happen to be available at 9:01 am on Tuesday.
(In fact, noticed that most Tuesday new-release "Short Wait"'s don't
even clear up until Wednesday or Thursday, meaning that some titles
aren't even processed into the system until the end of the day.)
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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