Posted by Incremental Jones on 01/26/06 15:54

"Von Fourche" <Monaco7876@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How common is Netflix throttling?

Extremely common! If they were only honest and say there is a limit to the
"unlimited" rental offers they wouldn't cause so much bad blood with
customers. If there was a 10-15 disk a month limit on the 3-at-a-time plan
then customers who hit their limit within the first 2 to 3 weeks might be
more likely to upgrade rather than wait 1-2 weeks until their membership
turns over. Holding disks before officially checking them in or holding them
before mailing them out just to keep customers under 20 rentals a month is
just nasty dishonest. As is artificially speeding up availability for new
customers as opposed to loyal, long time customers.

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