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Posted by Bob on 12/22/05 15:42
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:36:55 -0800, Sam Rouse <nofun@anymore.com>
wrote:
>> You should be getting at least 6 per week, which would be 300 per year
>> accounting for holidays.
>Forget about what you "should" get based on optimum turnaround.
That is not optimum turnaround. If the mail comes early enough, you
can screen 3 DVDs in 4 1/2 hours and get them to the post office that
afternoon and they will arrive at NF the next morning. If NF is not
throttling it will send the next 3 that afternoon and you will get
them the next day. In that way you can get 9 per week excepting
holidays.
>Where do you
>complainers get a better deal than $1.29 per disc, that has anywhere near
>Netflix's selection
The interloan department of your public library.
> and requires going no further than your mailbox?
You will have to drive to a branch of the library but that's no big
deal if you are out anyway. And these DVDs are FREE!
>If you have an inside track on a real competitor, I'd like to hear about it.
You just did.
I can get movies that even NF doesn't have. And I can get VHS too.
The only thing I cannot get is new releases which take a while to make
it to libraries. But most of my DVDs are older releases. Nevertheless,
if NF does not throttle me, I am willing to spend the money for the
convenience and steady flow. That is especially true for a
multi-season series like Babylon 5 or Farscape. I get so hooked on
those that I don't want to wait a long time for the next episodes.
I see according to amazon.com that the first half of Season Two of
Battlestar Galactica has been released last Tuesday. But there is sits
in my Saved Queue. So even NF can't deliver new releases on time.
Maybe it will be available when I rejoin next Spring.
--
Our revels now are ended. These are actors as I foretold
you were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air,
and like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped
towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great
globe itself, yea, and all that it inherits, has dissolved,
and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leaves not a rack
behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little
life is rounded with a sleep.
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