Posted on 02/11/2006 5:52:44 AM PST by yankeedame
They didn't before, and that got them in trouble
Show where that was in the OLD tos, not the NEW
Show where that was in the OLD tos, not the NEW
The Availabilty column was in the queue from the first day I got there which was 2000 or 2001. That's a clear indication of a limited number of copies, because if they were making copies as needed then all disks would have the same level of availability.
why was this thread pulled?
This thread was not pulled.
My Brother in Law got tossed from a Chinese restaurant once, because the place advertized "All You Can Eat", and Dave decided to find out if they really menat it. He lasted three hours and cleaned them out of all of the good stuff before they asked him to leave and never come back...
Newsflash! They are a business.
They have make $x on every DVD shipped. SInce you pay a fixed monthly, their profit from having you as a customer depends how many DVDs they ship you.
People who rent a Lot of DVDs a month are costing them money. They've taken the obvious step to correct the problem.
Blockbuster does it too.
I remember that promise, too!
there seemed to be a couple of delays. it would take them a day or 2 after i returned the film (directly to the post office on their return address) before the dvd would be logged in on the computer as having been returned.
then another day delay before sending out the next one.
this was a few years ago. the delay times seemed to be pretty constant (unlike what other people are reporting), so i assumed the delays were intentionally built into their system.
it had the appearance of intentionally limiting the number of videos i could get each month, so i quit.
however, intention is pretty hard to guage accurately--i'm making an assumption based on the consistent time pattern
It seems like a reasonable business practice. I'm a Netflix subscriber.
a friend told me that three people created a group and started ordering the movies and sharing them with each other...two years ago. So teh big tears in this story may be hiding a sharing idea that is popular among the geek world of music and video.
Until recently (according to the article we are presumably posting about) it was not disclosed that people were being selected for slowdown. Nowhere does it say that this was due to limited supply of workers! This was only to limit costs of mailings. They disclosed because they got caught -- like Bill after semen was found on Monica's dress.
Anyway I have a food bar idea for you - a separate line for FAT people with limited replacement of food in their bins. But advertise unlimited salad bar for all! This way you stay profitable, you can have the dressed cleaned of all traces, and nobody's the wiser.
I would think so but one advantage is the free weekly rental with a printable ticket. I only live about 8 miles from the closest Blockbuster rental store and can drive down and pick up the free rental.
I am watching free for another week and then will see how I like the service. Got to be an improvement over Netflix I would think.
Everyone knows fat people don't eat salad.
That is true up North and certainly out West - but here down south they deep-fry salad in bacon fat.
I cracked up and called the wife over to read this. We had a married couple come with us to an eat-all-u-can breakfast buffet. Among the usual stuff, there was a monstrous bowl of boiled shrimp (this was Navarre Beach, FL).
The woman vacuumed up the bowl and when they refilled it, she asked her husband to reload for her. He was embarrassed and said "No", so she did a repeat Hoover job. Thereafter, the bowl remain unfilled for the remainder of our visit. We talk about that to this day. Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
You can get 8 at a time from Blockbuster for $48 a month.
Man, your DVD burner must be REALLY slow!
;)
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