NetFlix long Waiting time

Cyrus,

My experience with Netflix was the same as yours. I had a queue that contained 50 discs, but the only ones that were available were old 1980's vintage movies. All the current releases were long waits.

As a result, I ended up cancelling my membership. To bad too. The service was well thought out, and in the beginning, worked very well. But it didn't make sense to pay $35 a month for old movies.

I've since started renting them from my local supermarket (Albertson's). They have the latest releases, and best of all, only charge $1.99 each, and you have them for 3 days.

While you do have to make a trip to the market to return them, I'm usually there 3-4 times a week anyway. Now I get new releases the day they come out, rather than waiting 3-4 months. You might want to try a supermarket in your area. They're apparently not interested in making much money from the rentals, but use them as a way to get you into the store.

Regards,

Ken

Ken, you've echoed my former membership exactly! I miss the convenience of Netflix deliveries, but their waiting period for current films is much too long. It's back to the rental store shuffle for me!

Long wait yeah but what about the quality of the discs, mine in the bay area were scratched to hell and back it was suprising that they even played. Good idea but they need better availability and a way to ship them other than a silk sleeve.

Bigwave,

You're right about the condition. On several occassions I had to take a disc out of the player and wipe it in the hope of getting it to play properly. However, considering how many discs I played, this didn't happen too often.

I did however have problems with the postal service "losing" several of my discs. Either they didn't arrive, or were lost during the return. It always made me feel really bad that Netflix would think that it was me that was scamming them, rather than postal service employees swiping them. They need to start using generic packaging, rather than a bright label that says, "DVD, steal me".

I've had the same experiences with scratched discs, though there have only been a couple that didn't play perfectly. One lost disc (ultimately showed up), one broken disc. I don't have any of the problems people are describing with long waits for discs - occassionally I don't get my first choice the first time, but I regularly sign up for new releases and get them pretty quickly. My biggest complaint (and it's not a very big one) is that it clearly takes longer than it should to turn a disc around - if I watch a movie on Friday night, I should be able to mail it back and have a new one for the next Friday night, but it never works that fast. I think it's a great service and I'm out of the business of late fees, which is wonderful. -Kirk