Netflix?

[cicer]

I am one of the last holdouts, one of the people who has never used Netflix. But right now, there a really a lot of DVDs that I'd love to see that I have no other way of getting ahold of. And I'm really not willing to shell out the money to buy these things, because a) that's way too expensive and b) I'm not even sure I'll like them that much. So I'm thinking about signing up.

I'm a little uncertain about this, so I'm appealing to those of you who are or were members. Did you like it? Would you recommend it? Is a it a good deal, a good service? Let me know.

Comments

It's the ickiest sticking point of the service, yeah.

[octopedingenue]

From Netflix's Terms Of Use (edited for length, but the entire TOS is worth a read):

We reserve the right to allocate and ship DVDs among our subscribers in any manner that we, in our sole and absolute discretion, determine...As a result, we may not always send you the top choices from your queue, and we may not ship out your next DVD on the same day that we receive one from you. At present, our goal is to ship you the DVDs listed highest in your queue...

[...]In determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service. As a result, those subscribers who receive the most movies may experience that (i) the shipment of their next available DVD occurs at least one business day following return of their previously viewed movie, (ii) delivery takes longer, as the shipments may not be processed from their local distribution center and (iii) they receive movies lower in their queue more often than our other subscribers. Other factors that may affect delivery times, include, but are not limited to, (i) the distance between the distribution center from which your DVD was shipped and your delivery address, (ii) the timing of your placement or adjustment of movies in your queue and (iii) circumstances impacting delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.

Re: It's the ickiest sticking point of the service, yeah.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Go me and my 6-8 movies a month! XD

Re: It's the ickiest sticking point of the service, yeah.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Huh. Thanks very much for pointing this out. I skimmed the TOS, but obviously didn't read closely enough, because I didn't notice that bit. If you don't mind me asking, about how many movies do you get each months? I'm kind of trying to figure out from what other people have said what the 'tipping point' is for the slowdown.

Re: It's the ickiest sticking point of the service, yeah.

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

My mom's been a customer for a little under a year now, and she watches a good six to ten movies a month, if not more. She lives in NYC, so that may affect the speed of her shipping, but she hasn't experienced any serious lag time. Me, on the other hand, I've seen some serious lag in the last month or so (it's about the fourth month I've had Netflix) but a lot of that is because I'm not so good at returning movies right away, I thought. Perhaps it's because they're slowing down my service, who knows. But I've had no problems yet with not getting the movie on top of my queue.

Overall, it's worth it for me. I watch a lot of documentaries and TV series via Netflix and it's great.

Re: It's the ickiest sticking point of the service, yeah.

[indelicateink]

we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service

AHA! This explains so much. I used to be on the 8-discs-at-a-time-plan seriously, yes, I have no life and I felt like I was totally being reamed considering how SLOW the service was.

Of course... I'm 3-discs-at-a-time now, and there's still a lag. :P Ah well. At least I'm not paying them quite so much anymore. ^^ *kicks Netflix*