Posted by David on 02/07/06 16:51

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:21:47 -0600, Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> "Tonester" <none@nospam.com> wrote:
>> Actually you only get 2 coupons
>
>Nope, looks like it's now officially 4 coupons. One per week.
>
>http://www.dvddossier.com/2006/02/blockbuster_cou.html

I read the related links, and then I called up Blockbuster because I
have a free month pending (long story) next month that I don't want to
lose. The rep said when you switch to a 4 coupons per month plan that
it doesn't take effect until the next plan/billing date, so switching
now would lose my free month and the 4 coupons wouldn't take effect
until the next billing date.

This is a little strange because the FAQ makes it sound like changing
plans gets you a free coupon within 24 hours, but that only works if
you do it right before your next billing date, I guess. I didn't
change because I don't want to risk losing the free month.

>Talk about a deal! I don't know why anyone would want to stick with
>Netflix after that.
>
>> but the main problem with BB is the 'no disc
>> time' you get with them. Once they receive your discs back it normally takes
>> them 3-4 days to send the next movies. So with BB you're sitting there with
>> a full queue, and NO movies out.

Last year Netflix was twice as fast as BB, but with the recent high
throttling at NF, BB and NF are about equally slow in my area... in
other words 3 movies per week if you're lucky. To me the big
difference is that NF's web site is better and more accurate. BB used
to get re-releases which was a big advantage, but now neither place
gets very many re-releases so if you want to rent an upgraded special
edition to see the new extras you're probably out of luck.

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