Posted by NFord on 12/22/05 23:58

"Sam Rouse" <nofun@anymore.com> wrote in message
news:nofun-0D9685.01365522122005@news.newsguy.com...
> In article <43aa5d9f.1084406@news-server.houston.rr.com>, spam@uce.gov (Bob)
> wrote:
>
>> On 21 Dec 2005 15:45:13 -0800, alcarm1964@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> >I've gotten 162 films so far in 11.5 months,
>> >which I think is pretty good.
>>
>> Actually that's pretty bad.
>>
>> 11.5 months is 50 weeks. 162 / 50 = 3 1/4 DVDs per week.
>
> It's about 14 per month, which at $18/month is about $1.29 per DVD.
>
>> You should be getting at least 6 per week, which would be 300 per year
>> accounting for holidays.
>
> Forget about what you "should" get based on optimum turnaround.

I'm not looking for "optimum turnaround", but when they
go from 3-day turnaround at the beginning, to a week or
more now, they are screwing the customer for being an
active renter.


> Where do you complainers get a better deal than $1.29 per disc,

First of all, with the one-week or longer turn-around I get
from NF, I do well to get 12 DVDs a month, which is more
like $1.70 per disc, not counting time lost to discs which
arrive unplayable.

Then it depends on what you get for your money. What I
do NOT get from NF is new movies because they always
have a long wait for them. So I get older movies and TV
series that I have missed, and I don't think that they are
any great bargain at $1.70+. In comparison, I spent $3.89
total, including sales tax, at the Movie Gallery around the
corner for the latest arrivals, "Four Brothers" and "Fantastic 4".
That's only 20 cents more per DVD for the latest Hollywood
blockbusters. (I have a Movie Gallery discount card, plus 2
rent-one-get-one-free coupons to use each month.) MG also
has started giving out the original packaging with rentals, which
is something you don't get from NF.


> that has anywhere near
> Netflix's selection and requires going no further than your mailbox? If you
> have an inside track on a real competitor, I'd like to hear about it.
> (Availability of a handful of current mainstream releases and seven copies of
> Pumpkinhead 3 coated with pizza grease, popsicle drips and bong water at the
> nearest grocery store for $0.79 each on coupon day isn't much competition.)

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