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Posted by GREG NIEMI on 01/05/07 21:53
Problem with BB is that they send you 1 movie at a time, I have 8-10 movies
in Q and I get sent only 1 movie every 3-4 days. I have e-mailed them about
it and they ignore me. I think Net has better selection, but BB returning
movies to exchange is a plus.
"Martin S." <mart@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:12pt92f5kei52a4@corp.supernews.com...
> And you didn't mention, with BlockBuster you can take the online movies
> that were mailed to you and use them as free movie coupons in the local
> store. Generally when you do this the online movies will clear your queue
> the next day and more will be shipped to you, even though you have the
> movies from the local store. This is a HUGE plus over Netflix.
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> "TH" <thehendersons44@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1168018173.493777.74280@s80g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Well, I finished a trial month of Blockbuster service. Here are my
>> comparisons between Netflix:
>>
>> BB has greatly improved since I tried them a year ago. Last year I had
>> about 13-14 movies a time in my queue and there would be long periods
>> where NO movie would be sent, despite the fact every movie was
>> "available now." There was one entire week where nothing was sent at
>> one point and various times when only one would be sent and two open
>> slots would just be sitting there. When I canceled and told the guy
>> why, he said "you have to have 30 movies in your queue" to which I said
>> "what does it matter if I have 30 or 3, if it says 'available now' then
>> they should be sent" to which he had no choice but to agree.
>>
>> This time I had around 10-13 movies in my queue and there was no "must
>> have 30 rule" applied. Generally when one would arrive, another would
>> be sent by the end of the day.
>>
>> The issues were:
>>
>> * They would still take movies out of order. A couple times I had a
>> movie that was number 3 or 4 sent despite the fact all the movies above
>> it were "available now."
>> * I live in Los Angeles so I'm sure the distribution center is close,
>> movies should be arriving the next day after being sent, but this only
>> happened a couple times. Generally movies took 2, sometimes even 3 days
>> to arrive. I can't believe they're throttling new customers, I think
>> it's just shabby service.
>> * Netflix's biggest advantage over BB is selection. There were still
>> new releases and foriegn films that BB didn't get that Netflix does.
>> * The one HUGE advantate BB has over Netflix is on TV series disks:
>> They will send you TWO SIDED disks. Netflix breaks up everything into
>> one sided disks so you have to rent all of them as one disk. I rented
>> Miami Vice season 1 disks from BB and got the two sided disks, which
>> was great. I rented Miami Vice season 2 from Netflix and got one sided
>> disks meaning I had to rent twice as many from them to get the same
>> amount.
>>
>> Of course with Netflix, you get throttled if you have a high turnover
>> so it's a lose-lose situation with them. I still hope a third large
>> company will get going at some points whose slogan will be "We will not
>> throttle" which would bring them lots of business.
>>
>> Because of Netflix's throttling, I will just be renting from the local
>> mom & pop video store for the time being. When Netflix delivers disks
>> on time, they are better than BB, but otherwise, you're might be better
>> off with BB (you get the instore rental coupon too, as well as other
>> store offers) if you're a regular renter and if you watch a lot of old
>> TV shows.
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