Posted on 08/18/2007 5:14:07 PM PDT by TheKidster
Hollywood can’t make anything decent any more. I’m finding the small screen is where it’s at. There are some great series out there, and nothing is more satisfying than knowing you have 6-8 episodes of Lost to watch in a weekend. However, it’s mostly strong PG with adult themes, but it’s a GREAT SHOW. Also, Jericho, Heros, 24, Sopranos, Entourage, Deadwood. The HBO shows are all R rated but at least they’re REALLY GOOD.
Since I’m not a big movie buff, Netflix has the only deal I like. Two movies a month for $5.00, hard to beat. And since my public library is now carrying so many DVDs, if I must pay for it with my tax dollars, I might drop Netflix altogether.
Awww ... thanx kat ... do I look funny blushing?
Are you a moderator?
It’s a national video rental chain.
one of my coworkers is doing this. I haven’t checked it out yet but i might. Sounds like a great way to save some cash.
The worst part of this change for me is that they eliminated their “e-coupons”. Those were good for video games as well as movies, and meant I could rent one game free each month.
The plans no longer have that free game rental, instead you can use your movie exchanges to get a “reduced price” game rental.
On the other hand, I have to admit the current plan I was on was too good to be true. I was paying $5.99 a month. I got 2 movies a month in the mail, and two in-store exchanges, PLUS a free game rental each month — that’s a total of $23 of rentals each month for six bucks.
They now want me to pay $7.99 for that program, which I would gladly pay if it still had the e-coupon. But it doesn’t, so I’ll probably drop the program, at least for a while.
I’ll say this. When I signed up for the program months ago, there was ONE movie my kids wanted me to get, it’s an old Caspar movie, I put it at the top of my queue, sometimes it was the ONLY movie in my queue. For months it said it was “available”, but I NEVER recieved it, ever.
Once I went two weeks not receiving ANY movie when Caspar was the only movie in my queue and showed “available”.
So it looks like I’ll be cancelling the program having NEVER received the movie I wanted.
Still, since I didn’t pay in advance for months of service, I hardly mind that Blockbuster has decided they don’t want my business — it’s their company, they can offer me whatever they want or don’t want.
The stores hated the program. Stores got almost NOTHING for it, but had to give out free rentals, AND handle mailing back all the online rental stuff. They especially hated all the free coupons.
Well, to be honest, their late fee rule is pretty good. You get a week AFTER the movie was due before they “sell” it to you.
And then you have up to 30 days to cancel the “sale”. Of course, that costs you a restocking fee of $1.25, but it means that you can keep a movie 5 weeks PAST the due date and only pay and extra $1.25.
And they don’t seem to mind people returning things late.
Dude,
What are you ranting about?
Did you even read what I posted before you responded?
“Don’t remember why, but I was already boycotting them for some reason. This is all the more cause then.”
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
Well, it does help not to have to rush back to the store, especially for the “2-day” rentals. I’m sure it’s easier for the employees. But I get annoyed by their poor selection. I’d about bet they pulled some titles to encourage people to subscribe to the online service. I’m pretty sure they used to have “A Little Princess” and “New Jack City”. Now I can’t find either, one I wanted to watch again, and the other I saw years ago and thought my son would enjoy an early Wesley Snipes flick. There’s a couple of Denzel Washington’s early films they don’t have either. It’s just frustrating to see so few movies in that big store (which seems to devote more and more space to selling used movies), and many of the ones they have are junk, and they are missing so many classics.
Was a shame as the exchange was a pretty good deal but things change so I went back to Netflix.
Netflix has a superior mail distribution system but still seems to "punish" frequent users; I've had new releases at the top of my list for well over a month.
Still not a bad deal either way.
.....but I was already boycotting them for some reason...
They were part of Sumner Redstone’s Viacom propaganda organization that included CBS.
I canceled my subscription yesterday. I told them that this was the only reason why.
“I dumped Netflix when they started throttling me.”
Same here! They’re good for a few months and then it starts. I remember watching a movie on DirecTV that was still showing as a long wait in my Netflix queue. I stopped them for a year or so and rejoined. It went good for several months and then it started again. I’ve been with BB ever since. I’m on a plan where I pay monthly charge to have two movies out at a time, in store only. It works for me.
Perfect!
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