Posted by Invid Fan on 07/12/06 23:43

In article <1q0bb2puh6prhct6mlb2hp8ffm7tmk3alt@4ax.com>, <me@home.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:54:04 -0400, Invid Fan <invid@localnet.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <r8udnajdavhLyCjZnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com>, Derek
> >Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Our lesson for today:
> >> Sometimes, it AIN'T "throttling" that causes Very Long Waits.
> >>
> >I never assume it's throttling, but if they don't actually have the
> >disk then don't list it as "very long wait". That's what the "saved"
> >section is for...
>
> Frankly I don't mind if they give me the"short wait" or the "long
> wait" for a dvd I want. At least you have some control there.
> If I don't like it I just I just move it to the bottom of my queue
> till it becomes available. It's when the disks constantly go "missing"
> when you return them and you can't report it for 6 days that annoys
> me .

Never happened to me, so I must be special :)

> I guess for some of you it's still worth while no matter what they
> do. I can understand that with some people who have to pay $3.75 and
> up for a local rental or live out of town, even being cut back to 7-9
> movies on the 3 at a time plan a month seems like a good deal.
> But holding movies back to slow your queue on "unlimited" rentals is
> at least dishonest and maybe fraud.

So long as a Netflix rental costs me under $2, and they have something
I want to watch, I'll stick with it.

> I am buying a FTA satellite this month and giving up on rentals.

Hope it works out well. As for me, little of the non-documentary stuff
I want to watch will end up on a channel.

--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total shit. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

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