Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/13/59 11:40

hobnoblin@hotmail.com wrote:
> Derek Janssen wrote:
>
>>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."
>
> I don't think so. According to my queue, the following movies are said
> to have a "very long wait". All of them were released just this week.

(The day you posted this, not to put too fine a point on it.)

> "Ultimate Avengers", "Aliens Gone Wild", "Ant: America's Ready", and
> "Lie With Me".

....The disk companies must be throttling them till Wednesday. :)

> Wait a second. I went back to check on the status of Superman vol.2,
> and now it says "unavailable". What the hell is the matter with those
> people?!?!?

Well, looks like they looked up the availability on that copy...

Derek Janssen (I believe the operative phrase is "Does THAT answer your
question?")
ejanss@comcast.net

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