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| What Netflix plan do you have? |
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4% |
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| 3 DVDs at-a-time |
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48% |
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| 2 DVDs at-a-time |
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24% |
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| 1 DVD at-a-time |
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4% |
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| 1 DVD at-a-time (limit 2 per month) |
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hackersmovie
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| barnz wrote: |
I think this is the most noteworthy statement in that article:
| Quote: | Spokeswoman Karen Raskopf also declined to disclose which current customers will see price hikes other than saying, "We are taking into account the profitability of individual subscribers."
Blockbuster lost half a million online customers in the July-September quarter. Chief Executive James W. Keyes said last month that many of those subscribers were costing his company more than they were worth. |
Although Netflix is experiencing a short-term boost from this news, they could also decide to devise ways to improve the cost-effectiveness of individual subscribers. I'm thinking in particular of some of us on this board who are prone to churning a lot of movies per month...  |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| hackersmovie wrote: |
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ha! 
Note I initially held back from saying
"those of us who regularly return 3 (or 4) movies in the same envelope"
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I'm on 2 at a time, well now, 1 at a time, since I split up my queue so my kid has 1 at a time. I tend to get them back rather quickly. I'll watch the one I received today later and get it back tomorrow.
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I just signed up for the 1 at a time but unlimited per month. I'm on the 14 day trial for starters.
Do Saturday count towards mailing?
Thnx.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| ghostdawg wrote: | I just signed up for the 1 at a time but unlimited per month. I'm on the 14 day trial for starters.
Do Saturday count towards mailing?
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Depending upon where your distribution center is located, the should receive your mailing on Monday, if you mailed it Saturday, and have a replacement in your mailbox on Tuesday. The distribution center I mail to is very close to where I live and when I return a video, within 2 days I have a replacement. Look at your mailer and see where you're mailing to.
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| barnz wrote: | I've been a Netflix member since they had a "regular" rent-and-return policy. Eventually they went to the "at-a-time" model and dragged us with them.
So I've been at 4 at a time since that was the only plan. I guess I'm paying what others pay for 3 at a time these days, so I'm in golden handcuffs on that - if I up- or downgrade I'll loose the grandfather status.
Bobaloo-
I definately recommend giving your kid her own queue - you can throttle her to one at a time and she can't mess with the order of yours. My wife and I have three, one disc at a time for her, one at a time for me, and two at a time for our "joint" queue. I'm switching back to two at a time for me, as I go through them a lot faster, she doesn't like watching TV and I can't think of anything better in life!  |
barnz,
thank you for that suggestion. I never thought of looking to see if that could be done. I've set it up and now she gets 1 DVD at a time and we get 1. If she is late in returning, she has to deal with it. I stayed with the 2 at a time, if I see we'll be watching more, I'll change to 3 at a time.
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barnz,
thank you for that suggestion. I never thought of looking to see if that could be done. I've set it up and now she gets 1 DVD at a time and we get 1. If she is late in returning, she has to deal with it. I stayed with the 2 at a time, if I see we'll be watching more, I'll change to 3 at a time. |
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| Bobaloo wrote: | | ghostdawg wrote: | I just signed up for the 1 at a time but unlimited per month. I'm on the 14 day trial for starters.
Do Saturday count towards mailing?
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Depending upon where your distribution center is located, the should receive your mailing on Monday, if you mailed it Saturday, and have a replacement in your mailbox on Tuesday. The distribution center I mail to is very close to where I live and when I return a video, within 2 days I have a replacement. Look at your mailer and see where you're mailing to. |
The mailer does show the center is in my St. Louis metro area.
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