Posted by smidscot on 09/16/05 11:56

Andrew wrote:
> "Simon Finnigan" <simon@therealm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3ot2spF7jsebU1@individual.net...
> > Hi everyone,
> > I'm currently a customer with Lovefilm, on their extreme package (which
> > gives me 8 disks at any one time). They are taking so long in sending out
> > new disks that I'm lucky to get through 8 disks a week, and for £40 a
> > month, I may as well walk down to blockbuster :-)
> >
> > Can anyone reccomend an online DVD rental company that has a similar
> > package (8 or so disks out at any one time), as many rentals a month as
> > you like and that will post out new disks the day they receive disks back?
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
>
> theyre all much of a muchness.
>
> people have very high expectations of online dvd rentalwhich can never be
> met.
>
> As you say you may be better with your local store, although i can guarantee
> you will find they
> dont have the films you want everytime either.


Theres bad and theres bad.

I've just entered my third month under lovefilm, and I'm cancelling at
the end of the
month. Why?

Well, I have 40 titles in my rental queue, and its giving me titles in
the
range of 36-40. So they'll stop giving me titles after my next 3 or 4
discs.

I don't have 40 titles from last 2 months, some are over a year old,
some are
even older than that... But they can't deliver any of these.

I suspect they can't deal with a ratio of discs to customers. They've
probably got a lot more customers recently, but not increased the
discs.

Makes no odds, I'm stopping them. I'm looking for an alternative, but I

suspect I will just go back to the videoshop in the end. It seems to me
that the online dvd rental model is failing...

Smid

[Back to original message]