Posted by Alpha on 02/11/06 23:45

"TB" <Partyslammer@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Derek Janssen" wrote:
>>>
>>> (snip)
>>>
>>>
>>>>Now...you'd think--I mean, WOULDN'T you, now?...that I would be the
>>>>*first* to champion the Holy Customers' right to demand everything they
>>>>want, when they want it, and that Big Ol' Rich Corporations are being
>>>>mean just because they won't give us an ice cream cone and a pony.
>>>>But--wonder of wonders--for some odd reason, I've actually been
>>>>*tolerant* of how a corporation operates its business strategy, and
>>>>trying to look past my own bloated self-justifying ego to suggest that
>>>>maybe what happens happens for an incorporated, profit-balancing reason.
>>>>Well, a reason besides "they're mean and greedy", seeing as I graduated
>>>>Seneca County Elementary School some years ago.
>>>
>>> Businesses love customers like you. They call you sheep.
>>
>> A sheep who gets to watch his rental movies, baa-stard. :)
>
> Mildly funny.
>
> Regardless, I'd never sign up for such a business like Netflix.
> "Throttling," dealing with the likelihood of postal screwups, large
> percentage of damaged discs - screw that. I just don't understand anyone
> who can defend a company like Netflix that knowingly makes claims that
> they do not fully honor regardless of customers who might take full
> advantage of such advertised claims.
>
> The corner video store is good enough for my dvd rental requirements.
> There's just something to be said for walking in, finding what they have
> in stock, making a couple selections and paying for them and leaving with
> them. Any obscure, rare movie I may want to watch that no one locally
> carries, I'll just buy it say, off an eBay seller, watch it at my leisure
> and resell it at some point later if I want to unload it.
>
> T.B.
>

Fine TB. That corner video store is absolutely inadequate for my interests.
Get a clue...people are different, not the same like you.

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