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Posted by Greg on 02/03/06 07:47
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:02:54 GMT, "brian" <brian@louisvilleky.com>
wrote:
>"Incremental Jones" <no-no@na.net> wrote in message
>> "Von Fourche" <Monaco7876@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> How common is Netflix throttling?
>>
>> Extremely common! If they were only honest and say there is a limit to the
>> "unlimited" rental offers they wouldn't cause so much bad blood with
>> customers. If there was a 10-15 disk a month limit on the 3-at-a-time plan
>> then customers who hit their limit within the first 2 to 3 weeks might be
>> more likely to upgrade rather than wait 1-2 weeks until their membership
>> turns over. Holding disks before officially checking them in or holding
>> them before mailing them out just to keep customers under 20 rentals a
>> month is just nasty dishonest. As is artificially speeding up availability
>> for new customers as opposed to loyal, long time customers.
>>
>I quit NetFlix a while back after having the same problem.I tried
>Blockbuster by mail and they were no better.Now I just have Movie Pass at
>Blockbusters.It's a little more expensive but I can get the movies when I
>want them.It's about $26.00 with tax for 2 at a time.
The Blockbuster Movie Pass works great if you only want the most
popular new releases, but if you want anything even remotely obscure
or most TV series then good luck finding them at your local
Blockbuster!
Given that Netflix has throttled us just like almost everyone else, we
only get 3 movies per week at best or 12 per month. That's basically
$1.50 each + tax. Using that number, to justify the $26 Movie Pass the
local Blockbuster would have to get 17 new movies per month I want to
see. THE PROBLEM: I'm selective in what I watch so I'm lucky if my
local store gets 6 new movies I want to see per month... not enough to
justify the cost unless I wait for 3 months to get 17 movies I want to
rent, do the pass for 1 month, and then wait another 3 months.
If Netflix keeps up their bad service I may have to go that route. I
also tried Blockbuster online and found them a bit worse than Netflix.
About the only positive I can give Netflix is their site is pretty
accurate and all but once they have sent me what I requested (unlike
Blockbuster who has shipped the wrong thing many times). This is
because Blockbuster's site has many errors, and I've pointed out many
errors on various moviest to Blockbuster, they say thanks, and the
errors still have not been fixed. So I don't waste my time telling
them any more as apparently they don't care about fixing the errors.
I agree with Von Fouche that Netflix should limit the number of
rentals per month rather than play all these blatantly obvious and
offensive throttling games. As an alternative, if $1.50 per rental is
their magic number, why don't they just charge $1.50 per disc shipped.
If they ship you 10 movies in 1 month you pay $15 + tax, if they ship
you 20 you pay $30 + tax. That way if they choose to sit on their
thumbs for a week and don't ship anything, I don't lose money.
Those are my opinions.
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