More Netflix throttling fun

My neighbor is/was a heavy user and noticed throttling but just
couldn't believe they'd stoop to such low tactics, now finally admits
Netflix is scum and is canceling his subscription.
Two weeks ago he turned in two movies one day, the third the next day.
Five days went by and nary a movie was returned. He finally logged in
the first two as missing, miraculously the next day they "arrived."
That same day, the third one "arrived."

The movies were A Shot in the Dark, Grey Lady Down & Goldfinger - three
old movies (I made sure to note the movies since the Netflix apologists
claim it's just new movies that are being held back to heavy users).

That day, the next three movies showed up in his queue: Alice Doesn't
Live here Anymore, Long Kiss Goodnight and The Notebook (I believe that
last one is his wife's pick ;> ).

All three showed up as going to be sent the next day (despite it still
being the morning). All three had a one day turnaround according to the
queue's predicted date. Two of the movie actually showed up five days
later and one six days later. Now he is convinced he is being
throttled.

This is a guy, who like me, when he first got onto netflix always had a
quick turn around and turned the service onto a lot of people. It was a
few weeks ago he brought it up to me about Netflix all of sudden
sending out disks slower (and why are they holding back disks?) and I
told him of their throttling and he just couldn't believe a company
would do someting that would obviously cost them lots of customers.
Now, like me, he is hoping a better service comes along. Another
Netflix customer bites the dust.

(Justy's predictable rant about Netflix not throttling here)

 

This is so tiresome and really irritating. Cancel. Who cares? I
don't!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

PS

Tell me what you and your friend intend to do the get rentals at a buck a
piece?

 

Another point:

Renting discs is a crude and soon to be obsolete idea. When you pay $3 each
(or $10 for a week) for a pay per view over the net, you will realize what
a bargain you once had.

 

Obviously you care and you care a lot, otherwise you wouldn't have
responded to this post TWICE.

 

So what's he going to do now for movies?

 

Yeah, all those video rental stores have just dried up and blown away,
right? And anyone that thinks paying 2 or even 3 bucks for rental vs
shilling out a buck and dealing with all the hassle of a Netflix style
online renter is some kind of terrible trade off is just being ludicrous.

T.B.

 

It is you that are stupid.

 

"Alpha" grunted:

Still haven't quite mastered the art of conversing in English, hmm?

T.B.

 

We have these things out here called "Video stores." It's an old
fashion concept, you actually have to physically go get your movie, but
you get it right away.

 

You don't get the titles you want right away most of the time. They are
already out.

 

If you're going to call somebody stupid, you should at least try to
demonstrates the language skills of a twelve year old.

 

Newsflash: netflix has more than one copy of each title.

 

I think Alpha may not be all there. He claims no one cares about
Netflix throttling, then responded to this post six times.

 

The poster stated that the neighbor was a *heavy* renter, with an example
of about half a dozen in one week. He'll blow through a rental store's
selection in just a few months, if he hasn't already done so via Netflix.
I know that when I stop by my local Hollywood Video, there's not much there
for me to rent. I've either already seen it or, am not really interested in
it, or else it's out of stock (new releases).

 

The thing I don't understand, though, is why they wouldn't throttle
everyone. Is it supposed to be that they randomly pick customers to
throttle?

I've been a customer for a couple years, and I don't think anyone could
be a heavier user than I am (I get an average of 60 discs per month, 8
out at a time)--why wouldn't I be throttled?

 

The problem is that I couldn't rent over 60 videos per month for $50
from a brick and mortar video store.

 

Sure you can:

http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/support/faq_mvp.aspx

 

It's not a matter of price. It's of selection. How many movies (of
interest) do you think Hollywood Video has for a person that rents 60 per
month?

 

Bullshit. Only the movies released that week or the week before are
usually out of stock. The typical Joe Sixpack customer heads straight
towards the "popular/hot" new release for that week like mindless cattle
and largely ignore everything else, irregardless of it's quality. As
long as you aren't fighting them for those movies every week, you'll
have no difficulty going home with a movie you want to watch.