Posted by lorincantrell on 07/20/07 21:44

On Jul 19, 6:28 pm, TH <thehenderson...@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi, just a quick question. I have about 25 disks in my Netflix queue.
> About a third are new releases. I never get any new releases sent. The
> ONLY time I ever get a new release is about once every three or four
> weeks when I put a new release that comes out on Tuesday and they're
> shipping out a disk on the Monday before; this happens maybe once
> every three to four weeks. I've already complained about some
> throttling and got a "free disk" which I haven't used because I'm
> considering quitting the service. My question is, if I drop all my
> other movies outside the "new releases" (which all have "short" to
> "long" waits on them and I never ever get them sent, some are four to
> six weeks old) will they start sending me these new releases or will
> my queue just sit there with no disks sent since they're all
> supposedly "long wait?" Basically I have the other movies in my queue
> simply as filler for what I expected to be the occasional time I don't
> get a new release sent (I get most of these movies at the library) but
> since I'm at the point where I never get any new releases, it's
> basically pointless for me to remain with Netflix.
>
> So if I have nothing but new releases, would my "sent out" just remain
> empty? There can be no way that every single new release disk gets
> taken by other people constantly and I'm only at the 2 at a time plan.

This is my experience:

I'm not a heavy enough user to be throttled. It generally takes about
2 weeks from the release date for me to get a new release, sometimes 3
weeks if it's a very popular one. Due to the USPS and their "mule
train" service in these parts I have to mail a disk back on Thursday
to get it to Netflix on a Monday, which never happens because I only
watch discs on weekends.

If you start putting discs at the top of your queue about a month
behind their releases you'll be a happier netflix customer. I don't
know if you watch only movies but for me, a TV series lover, there's
more stuff out there than I possibly have time to watch, what with
movies sprinkled in.

-beaumon

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