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

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".

Ken,

Overall I agree with you on the Netflix service and model. My only real complaint, and it was a big one, was that all of the current releases were listed by Netflix as having either a "long wait" or "very long wait". While I too like to view the occassional classic flick, my main diet is current releases. I usually watch 16-20 per month, so you can see this would be a bigger problem for me than it is for you.

If Netflix could get more discs from the studios, it would be an unbeatable service. I'm hoping this will happen and then I can renew my membership. After being a member for 15 months, I hated to cancel. But they weren't suiting my needs at that point.

Kenl