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Posted by Haddatten Huttendrut on 07/04/06 19:50
In article <gv6dncGZso0-JzfZnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
I don't think this is usually the case. As with book and video retailers, they
likely receive the new releases well in advance of the release date (maybe a
week), and just aren't allowed to start selling/shipping until the date, but are
allowed the one-day advance since nobody will receive them until the next day.
I think places like Amazon are also allowed a one-day advance on start of
shipping, for the same reason.
The big new releases probably get processed a lot faster, too, since they can
park boxes of DVDs next to the shippers, instead of retrieving them from stock.
> (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.)
There may be exceptions.
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