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Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/06/06 01:59
TH wrote:
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>>If you get 3 DVDs on Monday in the afternoon mail, one for you, one
>>for your wife or friend and one for both of you, you will have ample
>>time to watch all the DVDs in a 24 hour period. Then you return them
>>to the mailbox Tuesday afternoon for pickup. If your USPS is working
>>properly, the returned discs will show up at NF for early processing
>>and the next 3 DVDs will be sent out that day. You get 3 more on
>>Thursday and return them on Friday for delivery Monday. Then the cycle
>>completes. On average considering some delays in delivery and
>>holidays, you can expect 20 DVDs per month which is a buck per DVD.
>>Considering the cost of gasoline and wear/tear on the auto, that's a
>>good deal.
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> I'm not sure why you think I'm making up some sort of number that I
> want 3 disks a day or something. I have had netflix a long time. They
> pretty much did their business the way you describe. The throttled me
> once last year and I raise a stink about it and they stopped and gave
> me a free rental. They did it again this year. Now since for a long
> time the were delivering disks on time, similar to what you describe,
> then all of a sudden deem that my usage is too much (I have a wife and
> kids that go through movies like water), suddenly I'm being throttled,
> even worse than before. So when I complain, why is it wrong? Why am I
> now the bad person because I want what I was promised and previously
> delivered. You've got assholes like Derek who think anyone who has a
> high volume of disks must be copying for some reason (now that's a guy
> who needs to get outside some time). Why is it you're sticking up for
> Netflix when they're clearly not delivering what they once did and
> promise to do? How is my request all of a sudden unreasonable?
Because you're crusading it's THEIR fault that your demand is
outstripping supply--
Had you considered, say, a 5-out or 8-out plan for your wife and kids,
or are we still sticking with "outwitting" the three-out plan with our
brilliant cunning and strategy?
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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