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Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/11/07 17:24
def456 wrote:
> "Derek Janssen" <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:GJmdnbXZrO9Y6vDbnZ2dnUVZ_qiqnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>
>>The procedure:
>>1) If your movie's available now, they send it.
>>2) If your movie's available on a Short Wait, they judge who gets the
>>limited copies, and whether it's easier for your account to skip to the
>>next NOW title.
>>3) If there's spare copies, a title has to be located at another region,
>>and sent from there.
>>
>>If it's six hours from receipt, and your empty slot still hasn't been
>>filled, they're in the time-consuming process of thinking over 2) and 3),
>>and there's a 2 in 3 chance you'll end up with your next NOW title anyway.
>
> Thanks for the info. It sounds like you work at Netflix. ;o)
Nope, just been around since the pre-'01 "One shipping center" days--
And then...HOO-BOY, did we loyalists have to defend the battlements,
when DVD exploded, their subscriber list suddenly tripled, and literally
half your queue could consist of Long/Very Long Waits.
Coming up with a national "network" of libraries was the best thing that
ever happened to the company, and now we're getting complainers who
don't understand how the titles are networked.
> My prior comments were only a theory, which I'm in process of testing by
> keeping only "NOW" available movies at the top of my queue. If this
> eliminates their delays, that lends support to my theory. I can then retest
> in the opposite direction by moving a delayed title to the top of queue, and
> see if that starts causing their "next day" shipments again.
I do what they recommend (I think?), and put all my Very Long Waits at
the top of the list--
It'll take bit of slight delay to get your next Now movie shipped, but
I've also ended up with a few surprises that helped clean some of the
non-Now chaff off the queue. :)
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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