Re: OT: Netflix

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:25:28 -0500, Leigh Melton <leigh@xxxxxxx>
choked out these words:

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:37:50 -0800, "ahmward"
<nospam.ahmward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm sort of slow to join this bandwagon but which plan do you have? any
problems?

i have the $17.99 (+ tax) plan. it's an unlimited plan and
allows for 3 discs out at a time.

I joined a long time ago, rented a couple of discs and cancelled.
They just didn't have many movies to my tastes. Now of course they're
caught up in the 'throttling' mini-scandal. The more you rent, the
slower they turn your titles around.

i emailed them about that several weeks ago. i noticed that it
used to be as soon as i returned one, they sent a new one the
same day. now when i return one, it takes from one to three days
for them to send another one. it totally sucks. but it's still
cheaper than renting at the video store - and Blockbuster is not
an option for me. they fired me a long time ago under bogus
pretenses, and i will not give them my money.

also, i used to be notoriously slow at returning movies by their
due date - a $9 late fee on two movies was not unusual for me.
and that's after paying $3.25 for both. so i add a few dollars
to that every month, and i get something like 10 or 12 discs.

There are other rental services out there which I've liked a lot more.
eHit for Chinese, Japanese and Korean movies and TV series and
GreenCine which has a lot of indie, documentary and other
non-mainstream stuff.

one thing i like about Netflix is that they have a huge amount of
Indian (Bollywood) movies. the Indian grocery wanted a $40
deposit, and then each movie was something like $3.50 for a few
days.

david
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