Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/13/75 11:40

Jeff Rife wrote:

>>......The next morning, no more than 9 hours after I'd sent my e-mail,
>>I was elated to find that there was a page dedicated to "Superman the
>>Animated Series, Season 2". A wave of warmth passed through me as I
>>had "happy bunny" thoughts about Netflix's quick response to my
>>inquiry. HOWEVER, when I put the DVD on my queue, it said VERY LONG
>>WAIT!!!

> Or, it could just be that the release of that set slipped by the Netflix
> team, and you alerted them to it. They created a database entry for the
> set before they had any copies anywhere in stock (exactly like what would
> happen if you had placed it in your queue 3 months before the release
> date).
>
> Thus, since there were no copies in any Netflix warehouse, and no projected
> return dates for any copies "VERY LONG WAIT" was how they described the
> situation.

AAMoF, "Very Long Wait" is now pretty much ONLY used to denote
out-of-print or acquisition-pending copies--
The tactful version of "We ain't got one/yet."

While, with the new surplus of regional centers, anything that *does*
have a long wait has been downgraded to simply "Long Wait", while they
try to find an outside center to import the title from...IF they feel
your queue merits the effort when an otherwise available title's at #2.

Derek Janssen (who just saw one of his longtime VLW's downgraded to
"Short Wait")
ejanss@comcast.net

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